Triple

T17619997
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Isaias W. Hellman E429683 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Esther Newgass Hellman
Esther Newgass Hellman was the wife of prominent California banker and financier Isaias W. Hellman and a member of a notable German-Jewish immigrant family in the United States.
E1279945 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: Esther Newgass Hellman | Statement: [Isaias W. Hellman, spouse, Esther Newgass Hellman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Esther Newgass Hellman
Context triple: [Isaias W. Hellman, spouse, Esther Newgass Hellman]
  • A. Dorothie Hellman
    Dorothie Hellman is an American peace activist and author known for her work on conflict resolution and for coauthoring books on personal and global peace with her husband, cryptographer Martin Hellman.
  • B. Verna Hellman
    Verna Hellman, better known professionally as Verna Fields, was an influential American film editor and studio executive renowned for her work on landmark films such as "Jaws."
  • C. Frances Hellman
    Frances Hellman is an American physicist known for her research in condensed matter physics and for her leadership in the scientific community.
  • D. Esther Blau
    Esther Blau is known as the mother of author and Wiccan priestess Deborah Blake.
  • E. Esther Bubley
    Esther Bubley was an American documentary photographer best known for her intimate, human-centered images of everyday life in mid-20th-century America, particularly during and after World War II.
  • 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: Esther Newgass Hellman
Triple: [Isaias W. Hellman, spouse, Esther Newgass Hellman]
Generated description
Esther Newgass Hellman was the wife of prominent California banker and financier Isaias W. Hellman and a member of a notable German-Jewish immigrant family in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Esther Newgass Hellman
Target entity description: Esther Newgass Hellman was the wife of prominent California banker and financier Isaias W. Hellman and a member of a notable German-Jewish immigrant family in the United States.
  • A. Dorothie Hellman
    Dorothie Hellman is an American peace activist and author known for her work on conflict resolution and for coauthoring books on personal and global peace with her husband, cryptographer Martin Hellman.
  • B. Verna Hellman
    Verna Hellman, better known professionally as Verna Fields, was an influential American film editor and studio executive renowned for her work on landmark films such as "Jaws."
  • C. Frances Hellman
    Frances Hellman is an American physicist known for her research in condensed matter physics and for her leadership in the scientific community.
  • D. Esther Blau
    Esther Blau is known as the mother of author and Wiccan priestess Deborah Blake.
  • E. Esther Bubley
    Esther Bubley was an American documentary photographer best known for her intimate, human-centered images of everyday life in mid-20th-century America, particularly during and after World War II.
  • 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_69d889e37f308190a6aa0a69daff86c7 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e46d3547d88190ae3c9ffed63133c9 completed April 19, 2026, 5:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a020a92c6b88190933971adb468dee5 completed May 11, 2026, 4:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a020b81c0e88190af61ea1a3b89fe8a completed May 11, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a020cc2de908190ae82be94c0d9c1a0 completed May 11, 2026, 5:07 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:51 a.m.