Triple

T18508603
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lynn Povich E452268 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Stephen Shepard
Stephen Shepard is an American journalist and magazine editor best known as the former editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek and founding dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
E1328343 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: Stephen Shepard | Statement: [Lynn Povich, spouse, Stephen Shepard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen Shepard
Context triple: [Lynn Povich, spouse, Stephen Shepard]
  • A. M. Scott Smith
    M. Scott Smith is a film editor best known for his work on the crime thriller "To Live and Die in L.A."
  • B. James H. Merrell
    James H. Merrell is an American historian and ethnohistorian known for his influential scholarship on Native American history and cultures in colonial North America.
  • C. Paul Brooks
    Paul Brooks is known primarily as the husband of civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks.
  • D. Paul Brooks
    Paul Brooks is a British film producer known for his work on popular romantic comedies and genre films, including "The Wedding Date."
  • E. Charles Brust
    Charles Brust was the husband of American film and radio actress Rochelle Hudson.
  • 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: Stephen Shepard
Triple: [Lynn Povich, spouse, Stephen Shepard]
Generated description
Stephen Shepard is an American journalist and magazine editor best known as the former editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek and founding dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen Shepard
Target entity description: Stephen Shepard is an American journalist and magazine editor best known as the former editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek and founding dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
  • A. M. Scott Smith
    M. Scott Smith is a film editor best known for his work on the crime thriller "To Live and Die in L.A."
  • B. James H. Merrell
    James H. Merrell is an American historian and ethnohistorian known for his influential scholarship on Native American history and cultures in colonial North America.
  • C. Paul Brooks
    Paul Brooks is known primarily as the husband of civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Catherine Burks-Brooks.
  • D. Paul Brooks
    Paul Brooks is a British film producer known for his work on popular romantic comedies and genre films, including "The Wedding Date."
  • E. Charles Brust
    Charles Brust was the husband of American film and radio actress Rochelle Hudson.
  • 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_69d8d386df84819092355ebb260d848e completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e53344c6b081908e780ed5c815a766 completed April 19, 2026, 7:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a047148cac48190885f66f87274905d completed May 13, 2026, 12:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a048626a0a48190956a51f755f790cd completed May 13, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0489f4a1d081909a274bf3679c70a6 completed May 13, 2026, 2:25 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:36 a.m.