Triple
T8959752
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | R. B. Woodward |
E213569
|
entity |
| Predicate | spouse |
P13
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Ellen Woodward
Ellen Woodward was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning organic chemist Robert Burns Woodward.
|
E769565
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (4 steps)
Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.
NER
Named-entity recognition
gpt-5-mini
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: Ellen Woodward | Statement: [R. B. Woodward, spouse, Ellen Woodward]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellen Woodward Context triple: [R. B. Woodward, spouse, Ellen Woodward]
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A.
Ellen Spencer Mussey
Ellen Spencer Mussey was an American lawyer, educator, and pioneering advocate for women's legal education who co-founded one of the first law schools to admit women on an equal basis with men.
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B.
Ellen Wheeler
Ellen Wheeler is an American actress and television producer best known for her work on daytime soap operas, including serving as executive producer of Guiding Light.
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C.
Ellen B. Rozet
Ellen B. Rozet was a 19th-century American socialite best known as the wife of financier and philanthropist Anthony J. Drexel.
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D.
Dorothy Helen Smith
Dorothy Helen Smith was a Canadian sociologist and feminist theorist best known for developing institutional ethnography as a method of inquiry into everyday life and power relations.
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E.
Ellen Howard
Ellen Howard is a notable individual distinguished by achievements significant enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Howard surname.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg
Description generation
gpt-5.1
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: Ellen Woodward Triple: [R. B. Woodward, spouse, Ellen Woodward]
Generated description
Ellen Woodward was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning organic chemist Robert Burns Woodward.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellen Woodward Target entity description: Ellen Woodward was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning organic chemist Robert Burns Woodward.
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A.
Ellen Spencer Mussey
Ellen Spencer Mussey was an American lawyer, educator, and pioneering advocate for women's legal education who co-founded one of the first law schools to admit women on an equal basis with men.
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B.
Ellen Wheeler
Ellen Wheeler is an American actress and television producer best known for her work on daytime soap operas, including serving as executive producer of Guiding Light.
-
C.
Ellen B. Rozet
Ellen B. Rozet was a 19th-century American socialite best known as the wife of financier and philanthropist Anthony J. Drexel.
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D.
Dorothy Helen Smith
Dorothy Helen Smith was a Canadian sociologist and feminist theorist best known for developing institutional ethnography as a method of inquiry into everyday life and power relations.
-
E.
Ellen Howard
Ellen Howard is a notable individual distinguished by achievements significant enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Howard surname.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (5 batches)
The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.
| Step | Stage | Batch ID | Status | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| creating | Elicitation | batch_69ca8399ad2081909f8fa41d4314c215 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc6746fbf88190aba658b4b9c2e4b0 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 12:31 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cfc946a2f88190b7cd0fca67d31dfd |
completed | April 3, 2026, 2:05 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69cfca41aed08190a5107597625e4b61 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 2:10 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69cfcaba165081908c7bbfb905356942 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 2:12 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7 p.m.