Triple

T15267757
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Barnum Brown E364942 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Lilian MacLaughlin Brown
Lilian MacLaughlin Brown was an American writer and lecturer best known for popularizing paleontology and natural history, often drawing on the fossil-hunting expeditions of her husband, famed dinosaur hunter Barnum Brown.
E1362075 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: Lilian MacLaughlin Brown | Statement: [Barnum Brown, spouse, Lilian MacLaughlin Brown]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lilian MacLaughlin Brown
Context triple: [Barnum Brown, spouse, Lilian MacLaughlin Brown]
  • A. Muriel McClure
    Muriel McClure was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning geneticist George W. Beadle.
  • B. Mary Elizabeth Milner
    Mary Elizabeth Milner was the wife of British newspaper magnate Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, a leading figure in the development of modern mass-circulation journalism.
  • C. Lilian Vaughan Morgan
    Lilian Vaughan Morgan was an American geneticist known for her pioneering work on Drosophila and contributions to the early development of chromosome theory.
  • D. Dorothy McIlwraith
    Dorothy McIlwraith was an American magazine editor best known for her influential mid-20th-century stewardship of the pulp fantasy and horror magazine Weird Tales.
  • E. Marian Walker Brown
    Marian Walker Brown was the wife of U.S. Senator Prentiss M. Brown and a member of a prominent Michigan political family in the mid-20th century.
  • 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: Lilian MacLaughlin Brown
Triple: [Barnum Brown, spouse, Lilian MacLaughlin Brown]
Generated description
Lilian MacLaughlin Brown was an American writer and lecturer best known for popularizing paleontology and natural history, often drawing on the fossil-hunting expeditions of her husband, famed dinosaur hunter Barnum Brown.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lilian MacLaughlin Brown
Target entity description: Lilian MacLaughlin Brown was an American writer and lecturer best known for popularizing paleontology and natural history, often drawing on the fossil-hunting expeditions of her husband, famed dinosaur hunter Barnum Brown.
  • A. Muriel McClure
    Muriel McClure was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning geneticist George W. Beadle.
  • B. Mary Elizabeth Milner
    Mary Elizabeth Milner was the wife of British newspaper magnate Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, a leading figure in the development of modern mass-circulation journalism.
  • C. Lilian Vaughan Morgan
    Lilian Vaughan Morgan was an American geneticist known for her pioneering work on Drosophila and contributions to the early development of chromosome theory.
  • D. Dorothy McIlwraith
    Dorothy McIlwraith was an American magazine editor best known for her influential mid-20th-century stewardship of the pulp fantasy and horror magazine Weird Tales.
  • E. Marian Walker Brown
    Marian Walker Brown was the wife of U.S. Senator Prentiss M. Brown and a member of a prominent Michigan political family in the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69d85a0f08408190b3c3259ae35d79d2 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e0094ca9ac8190a1f97a7b74c96cd5 completed April 15, 2026, 9:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a06f89123f0819086f3aeef4c309f63 completed May 15, 2026, 10:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a06f9666b2081908c02f7e0d63345d1 completed May 15, 2026, 10:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a06f9efad4c81908415dc4b56a38ddc completed May 15, 2026, 10:48 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:14 a.m.