Triple

T11807826
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Maria Cole E280793 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Spurgeon Ellington
Spurgeon Ellington was a Tuskegee Airman and U.S. Army Air Forces officer during World War II who was married to singer Maria Cole.
E954153 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: Spurgeon Ellington | Statement: [Maria Cole, spouse, Spurgeon Ellington]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spurgeon Ellington
Context triple: [Maria Cole, spouse, Spurgeon Ellington]
  • A. James Edward Ellington
    James Edward Ellington was a member of the Ellington family, related to Daisy Kennedy Ellington and part of the broader lineage associated with jazz composer Duke Ellington.
  • B. Mercer Ellington
    Mercer Ellington was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who led the Duke Ellington Orchestra after his father’s death.
  • C. Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington was a pioneering American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader whose innovative work helped define the sound and global influence of 20th-century jazz.
  • D. Harry Carney
    Harry Carney was an American jazz baritone saxophonist and clarinetist best known as one of Duke Ellington’s longest-serving and most important band members.
  • E. Horace Parlan
    Horace Parlan was an American jazz pianist known for his distinctive, blues-inflected hard bop style and influential recordings for the Blue Note label.
  • 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: Spurgeon Ellington
Triple: [Maria Cole, spouse, Spurgeon Ellington]
Generated description
Spurgeon Ellington was a Tuskegee Airman and U.S. Army Air Forces officer during World War II who was married to singer Maria Cole.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spurgeon Ellington
Target entity description: Spurgeon Ellington was a Tuskegee Airman and U.S. Army Air Forces officer during World War II who was married to singer Maria Cole.
  • A. James Edward Ellington
    James Edward Ellington was a member of the Ellington family, related to Daisy Kennedy Ellington and part of the broader lineage associated with jazz composer Duke Ellington.
  • B. Mercer Ellington
    Mercer Ellington was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who led the Duke Ellington Orchestra after his father’s death.
  • C. Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington was a pioneering American jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader whose innovative work helped define the sound and global influence of 20th-century jazz.
  • D. Harry Carney
    Harry Carney was an American jazz baritone saxophonist and clarinetist best known as one of Duke Ellington’s longest-serving and most important band members.
  • E. Horace Parlan
    Horace Parlan was an American jazz pianist known for his distinctive, blues-inflected hard bop style and influential recordings for the Blue Note label.
  • 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_69d6ab26aae88190b2489efcb2a24234 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a5c93a1881909b428bf3ed55bb57 completed April 10, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f43f9e99788190a5a8abb135426038 completed May 1, 2026, 5:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f448f506a48190a0f1b89ad570fad5 completed May 1, 2026, 6:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f44ad185cc8190893cf663cfed6980 completed May 1, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:42 p.m.