Triple

T8864332
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mary Catherine Bateson E210975 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Mary
Mary is the given name of Mary Catherine Bateson, an American cultural anthropologist and writer known for her work on learning and the human life cycle.
 E762332 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Mary | Statement: [Mary Catherine Bateson, givenName, Mary]

Disambiguation candidates (2 decisions)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mary
Context triple: [Mary Catherine Bateson, givenName, Mary]
  • A. Mary
    Mary is the given name of Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneering 18th-century English writer and advocate of women's rights.
  • B. Mary
    Mary is the middle name of Theresa May, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • C. Mary
    Mary I of England was the 16th-century Queen of England and Ireland best known for her attempt to restore Roman Catholicism and for the Marian persecutions that earned her the nickname "Bloody Mary."
  • D. Mary
    Mary is a studio album by Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie, known for its highlife influences and tribute to his late grandmother.
  • E. Mary
    Mary Allerton was a Mayflower passenger and one of the early settlers of Plymouth Colony in 17th-century New England.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mary
Target entity description: Mary is the given name of Mary Catherine Bateson, an American cultural anthropologist and writer known for her work on learning and the human life cycle.
  • A. Mary
    Mary is the given name of Mary Everest Boole, a 19th-century mathematics educator known for her innovative ideas on teaching mathematics, especially to children.
  • B. Mary
    Mary is the given name of Mary Tyler Peabody, an American educator and reformer known for her work in the 19th century.
  • C. Mary
    Mary is the given name of Mary Cassatt, the renowned American Impressionist painter known for her depictions of women and children.
  • D. Mary
    Mary is the given name of Mary McLeod Bethune, a prominent African American educator, civil rights leader, and founder of Bethune-Cookman University.
  • E. Mary
    Mary is the given name of Mary Church Terrell, a prominent African American civil rights activist, educator, and suffragist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • F. None of above. chosen

How the object was described

The object's one-sentence description was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the object name and this triple as context.

Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Mary
Triple: [Mary Catherine Bateson, givenName, Mary]
Generated description
Mary is the given name of Mary Catherine Bateson, an American cultural anthropologist and writer known for her work on learning and the human life cycle.

Provenance (5 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69ca838d3c7c8190a849566d5afd2b11 elicitation completed
NER batch_69cc610569d08190b108107dfe397f18 ner completed
NED1 batch_69cfa0caccd88190b6464f53d0239e47 ned_source_triple completed
NED2 batch_69cfa24efdc081908ef615305deb5b15 ned_description completed
NEDg batch_69cfa1abe8248190b6db4713292bdfd3 nedg completed
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:51 p.m.