Triple

T9392239
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Barbara Billingsley E226051 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object William Mortensen
William Mortensen was an American photographer best known for his controversial, pictorialist and often macabre images that challenged the emerging modernist aesthetic in early 20th-century photography.
 E796256 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: William Mortensen | Statement: [Barbara Billingsley, spouse, William Mortensen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Mortensen
Context triple: [Barbara Billingsley, spouse, William Mortensen]
  • A. George Hansen
    George Hansen is a fictional character from the 1958 Western film "Terror in a Texas Town."
  • B. Ole Hanson
    Ole Hanson was an American real estate developer and former mayor of Seattle best known for envisioning and developing the master-planned coastal community of San Clemente, California.
  • C. Willam Christensen
    Willam Christensen was an influential American ballet dancer, choreographer, and director best known for helping establish professional ballet in the United States, including shaping the early artistic direction of the San Francisco Ballet.
  • D. Fred Borch
    Fred Borch was an American business executive best known for his leadership at General Electric and his influential role in U.S. corporate governance circles.
  • E. Hans Hansen
    Hans Hansen is a central character in Thomas Mann's novella "Tonio Kröger," representing the idealized, conventional bourgeois youth who contrasts with the artistic, introspective protagonist.
  • 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: William Mortensen
Triple: [Barbara Billingsley, spouse, William Mortensen]
Generated description
William Mortensen was an American photographer best known for his controversial, pictorialist and often macabre images that challenged the emerging modernist aesthetic in early 20th-century photography.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Mortensen
Target entity description: William Mortensen was an American photographer best known for his controversial, pictorialist and often macabre images that challenged the emerging modernist aesthetic in early 20th-century photography.
  • A. George Hansen
    George Hansen is a fictional character from the 1958 Western film "Terror in a Texas Town."
  • B. Ole Hanson
    Ole Hanson was an American real estate developer and former mayor of Seattle best known for envisioning and developing the master-planned coastal community of San Clemente, California.
  • C. Willam Christensen
    Willam Christensen was an influential American ballet dancer, choreographer, and director best known for helping establish professional ballet in the United States, including shaping the early artistic direction of the San Francisco Ballet.
  • D. Fred Borch
    Fred Borch was an American business executive best known for his leadership at General Electric and his influential role in U.S. corporate governance circles.
  • E. Hans Hansen
    Hans Hansen is a central character in Thomas Mann's novella "Tonio Kröger," representing the idealized, conventional bourgeois youth who contrasts with the artistic, introspective protagonist.
  • 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_69ca842f7e3481908bf5bcf52e032dbd completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd510eae0c8190b7c4ab487a366bb3 completed April 1, 2026, 5:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1010169d88190a7267615a9196d4b completed April 4, 2026, 12:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1024817f88190973d30bcbf0db228 completed April 4, 2026, 12:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d102b154f88190b13868ce5df59510 completed April 4, 2026, 12:23 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:45 p.m.