Triple
T18517334
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Carol Shields |
E452498
|
entity |
| Predicate | spouse |
P13
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Donald Hugh Shields
Donald Hugh Shields was the husband of Pulitzer Prize–winning Canadian-American novelist Carol Shields.
|
E1328906
|
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: Donald Hugh Shields | Statement: [Carol Shields, spouse, Donald Hugh Shields]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Hugh Shields Context triple: [Carol Shields, spouse, Donald Hugh Shields]
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A.
Norman Shields
Norman Shields is the bumbling newspaper reporter portrayed by Norman Wisdom in the 1966 British comedy film "Press for Time."
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B.
Fred Shields
Fred Shields was an American voice actor best known for narrating and voicing authoritative characters in classic Walt Disney animated films.
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C.
Frank Shields
Frank Shields was an American amateur tennis champion and occasional film actor active in the 1930s.
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D.
Michael Alsbury
Michael Alsbury was an American test pilot for Scaled Composites who was killed during a 2014 test flight of the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane.
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E.
Frank Crichlow
Frank Crichlow was a prominent British civil rights activist and community leader, best known as the owner of the Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill and a central figure in the struggle against police racism in 1960s–70s London.
- 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: Donald Hugh Shields Triple: [Carol Shields, spouse, Donald Hugh Shields]
Generated description
Donald Hugh Shields was the husband of Pulitzer Prize–winning Canadian-American novelist Carol Shields.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Hugh Shields Target entity description: Donald Hugh Shields was the husband of Pulitzer Prize–winning Canadian-American novelist Carol Shields.
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A.
Norman Shields
Norman Shields is the bumbling newspaper reporter portrayed by Norman Wisdom in the 1966 British comedy film "Press for Time."
-
B.
Fred Shields
Fred Shields was an American voice actor best known for narrating and voicing authoritative characters in classic Walt Disney animated films.
-
C.
Frank Shields
Frank Shields was an American amateur tennis champion and occasional film actor active in the 1930s.
-
D.
Michael Alsbury
Michael Alsbury was an American test pilot for Scaled Composites who was killed during a 2014 test flight of the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane.
-
E.
Frank Crichlow
Frank Crichlow was a prominent British civil rights activist and community leader, best known as the owner of the Mangrove restaurant in Notting Hill and a central figure in the struggle against police racism in 1960s–70s London.
- 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_69e5338b2cd0819095db59f6bfc70814 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 7:56 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a04916c1cb88190889ad7d1c1dc4279 |
completed | May 13, 2026, 2:57 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a04921b1a508190b8bb6d6c4597ab99 |
completed | May 13, 2026, 3 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a0492ba4ea08190b59510b221ad5d21 |
completed | May 13, 2026, 3:03 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:36 a.m.