Triple

T18957502
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Frances Sternhagen E463817 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Thomas A. Carlin
Thomas A. Carlin was an American actor known for his work on stage and screen and as the husband of actress Frances Sternhagen.
E1400752 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: Thomas A. Carlin | Statement: [Frances Sternhagen, spouse, Thomas A. Carlin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas A. Carlin
Context triple: [Frances Sternhagen, spouse, Thomas A. Carlin]
  • A. James J. Rowley
    James J. Rowley was a longtime Director of the United States Secret Service, recognized for modernizing the agency and strengthening presidential protection.
  • B. Charles P. Boyle
    Charles P. Boyle was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century films, particularly family-oriented productions from major Hollywood studios.
  • C. Edward J. Logue
    Edward J. Logue was a prominent American urban planner and public administrator known for leading major urban renewal and redevelopment projects in cities such as Boston, New Haven, and New York.
  • D. Patrick F. Graham
    Patrick F. Graham is a business leader and entrepreneur best known as a founder of the global management consulting firm Bain & Company.
  • E. Charles M. Sullivan
    Charles M. Sullivan is a historian and preservationist who serves as the executive director of the Cambridge Historical Commission in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • 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: Thomas A. Carlin
Triple: [Frances Sternhagen, spouse, Thomas A. Carlin]
Generated description
Thomas A. Carlin was an American actor known for his work on stage and screen and as the husband of actress Frances Sternhagen.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas A. Carlin
Target entity description: Thomas A. Carlin was an American actor known for his work on stage and screen and as the husband of actress Frances Sternhagen.
  • A. James J. Rowley
    James J. Rowley was a longtime Director of the United States Secret Service, recognized for modernizing the agency and strengthening presidential protection.
  • B. Charles P. Boyle
    Charles P. Boyle was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century films, particularly family-oriented productions from major Hollywood studios.
  • C. Edward J. Logue
    Edward J. Logue was a prominent American urban planner and public administrator known for leading major urban renewal and redevelopment projects in cities such as Boston, New Haven, and New York.
  • D. Patrick F. Graham
    Patrick F. Graham is a business leader and entrepreneur best known as a founder of the global management consulting firm Bain & Company.
  • E. Charles M. Sullivan
    Charles M. Sullivan is a historian and preservationist who serves as the executive director of the Cambridge Historical Commission in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • 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_69d8dcffc278819086792a4ebfddfafa completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5d5cee8348190b6506b10aed6c58a completed April 20, 2026, 7:29 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07ea287a948190a7578138ceb9724f completed May 16, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07ecacb44881908074a946cdd78283 completed May 16, 2026, 4:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07ed0b0b208190ba0fc7bae7c2652e completed May 16, 2026, 4:05 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, noon