Triple

T18721905
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dorothy Butler Gilliam E457796 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Dorothy Butler
Dorothy Butler is the birth name of Dorothy Butler Gilliam, a pioneering African American journalist and former Washington Post reporter and editor.
E1436609 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: Dorothy Butler | Statement: [Dorothy Butler Gilliam, birthName, Dorothy Butler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dorothy Butler
Context triple: [Dorothy Butler Gilliam, birthName, Dorothy Butler]
  • A. Dorothy Collier
    Dorothy Collier was the wife of American actor James Best, known for his role as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on the television series "The Dukes of Hazzard."
  • B. Dorothy Bland
    Dorothy Bland, better known by her stage name Dorothea Jordan, was a celebrated 18th–19th century Anglo-Irish actress and comedian who became one of the most famous comic performers of her era and the longtime mistress of the future King William IV.
  • C. Dorothy Bussy
    Dorothy Bussy was an English novelist and translator best known for her close association with French writer André Gide and for translating many of his works into English.
  • D. Dorothy Bell
    Dorothy Bell is a character appearing in Titan Comics' "Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor" series, involved in adventures alongside the Tenth Doctor.
  • E. Dorothy Campbell
    Dorothy Campbell is a fictional character from the television series "Mad Men," known as the socially proper and emotionally distant mother of advertising executive Pete Campbell.
  • 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: Dorothy Butler
Triple: [Dorothy Butler Gilliam, birthName, Dorothy Butler]
Generated description
Dorothy Butler is the birth name of Dorothy Butler Gilliam, a pioneering African American journalist and former Washington Post reporter and editor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dorothy Butler
Target entity description: Dorothy Butler is the birth name of Dorothy Butler Gilliam, a pioneering African American journalist and former Washington Post reporter and editor.
  • A. Dorothy Collier
    Dorothy Collier was the wife of American actor James Best, known for his role as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on the television series "The Dukes of Hazzard."
  • B. Dorothy Bland
    Dorothy Bland, better known by her stage name Dorothea Jordan, was a celebrated 18th–19th century Anglo-Irish actress and comedian who became one of the most famous comic performers of her era and the longtime mistress of the future King William IV.
  • C. Dorothy Bussy
    Dorothy Bussy was an English novelist and translator best known for her close association with French writer André Gide and for translating many of his works into English.
  • D. Dorothy Bell
    Dorothy Bell is a character appearing in Titan Comics' "Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor" series, involved in adventures alongside the Tenth Doctor.
  • E. Dorothy Campbell
    Dorothy Campbell is a fictional character from the television series "Mad Men," known as the socially proper and emotionally distant mother of advertising executive Pete Campbell.
  • 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_69d8d393ba9c8190a8b03b04ddbb0a09 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e56abadca08190ab1e699b7dcc0c4d completed April 19, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08a544bcc081908db3128bc107e5dc completed May 16, 2026, 5:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08a5de7b388190a03defa5ac8df667 completed May 16, 2026, 5:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08a67f37f08190a50c377042c44a6f completed May 16, 2026, 5:16 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:50 a.m.