Triple

T19040129
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hendrik Hertzberg E465976 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Virginia Cannon
Virginia Cannon is an American writer and editor best known for her work at The New Yorker and as the spouse of political commentator Hendrik Hertzberg.
E1355547 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: Virginia Cannon | Statement: [Hendrik Hertzberg, spouse, Virginia Cannon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia Cannon
Context triple: [Hendrik Hertzberg, spouse, Virginia Cannon]
  • A. Virginia Gregg
    Virginia Gregg was an American character actress and prolific radio performer known for her numerous supporting roles in film and television from the 1940s through the 1970s.
  • B. Dabney Carr
    Dabney Carr was an American lawyer, patriot, and close friend and brother-in-law of Thomas Jefferson who played a key role in early Revolutionary-era politics in Virginia.
  • C. Elizabeth Harrison Randolph
    Elizabeth Harrison Randolph was a member of the prominent Harrison family of colonial Virginia and the wife of Peyton Randolph, the first President of the Continental Congress.
  • D. Martha Bullock
    Martha Bullock is a fictional character from the television series "Deadwood," known as the refined and resilient wife of lawman Seth Bullock.
  • E. Virginia Jefferson Randolph
    Virginia Jefferson Randolph was a granddaughter of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and one of the daughters of Martha Jefferson Randolph, belonging to the prominent Randolph-Jefferson family of early 19th-century Virginia.
  • 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: Virginia Cannon
Triple: [Hendrik Hertzberg, spouse, Virginia Cannon]
Generated description
Virginia Cannon is an American writer and editor best known for her work at The New Yorker and as the spouse of political commentator Hendrik Hertzberg.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virginia Cannon
Target entity description: Virginia Cannon is an American writer and editor best known for her work at The New Yorker and as the spouse of political commentator Hendrik Hertzberg.
  • A. Virginia Gregg
    Virginia Gregg was an American character actress and prolific radio performer known for her numerous supporting roles in film and television from the 1940s through the 1970s.
  • B. Dabney Carr
    Dabney Carr was an American lawyer, patriot, and close friend and brother-in-law of Thomas Jefferson who played a key role in early Revolutionary-era politics in Virginia.
  • C. Elizabeth Harrison Randolph
    Elizabeth Harrison Randolph was a member of the prominent Harrison family of colonial Virginia and the wife of Peyton Randolph, the first President of the Continental Congress.
  • D. Martha Bullock
    Martha Bullock is a fictional character from the television series "Deadwood," known as the refined and resilient wife of lawman Seth Bullock.
  • E. Virginia Jefferson Randolph
    Virginia Jefferson Randolph was a granddaughter of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and one of the daughters of Martha Jefferson Randolph, belonging to the prominent Randolph-Jefferson family of early 19th-century Virginia.
  • 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_69d8dd0359648190bc2a9202c5cf29d2 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5d80054c88190a9d3a49aed504235 completed April 20, 2026, 7:38 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05c549a6208190bb5258e49d868fea completed May 14, 2026, 12:51 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05c79185d88190801c95dc2aa229fd completed May 14, 2026, 1:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05c7e595688190872825ac7165dcc0 completed May 14, 2026, 1:02 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:02 p.m.