Triple

T19527019
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joe Sawyer E488545 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Betty May
Betty May was the wife of Canadian-born character actor Joe Sawyer, known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films and television from the 1930s to the 1960s.
E1382356 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: Betty May | Statement: [Joe Sawyer, spouse, Betty May]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Betty May
Context triple: [Joe Sawyer, spouse, Betty May]
  • A. Betty Lou
    Betty Lou is the quirky, unassuming heroine of the crime-comedy film "The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag," whose life spirals into chaos after she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
  • B. Betty Boynton
    Betty Boynton is known as the spouse of civil rights figure Bruce Boynton, whose case helped inspire the Freedom Rides challenging segregation in interstate travel.
  • C. Betty Brown
    Betty Brown was the wife of American vaudeville performer and comedian Ted Healy, best known for his work with the early Three Stooges.
  • D. Betty Thomas
    Betty Thomas is an American actress and director best known for her Emmy-winning role on the television drama "Hill Street Blues" and for directing several successful comedy films.
  • E. Betty Hicks
    Betty Hicks was the wife of famed American tenor and film star Mario Lanza, known for supporting him throughout his celebrated but turbulent career.
  • 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: Betty May
Triple: [Joe Sawyer, spouse, Betty May]
Generated description
Betty May was the wife of Canadian-born character actor Joe Sawyer, known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films and television from the 1930s to the 1960s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Betty May
Target entity description: Betty May was the wife of Canadian-born character actor Joe Sawyer, known for his numerous supporting roles in Hollywood films and television from the 1930s to the 1960s.
  • A. Betty Lou
    Betty Lou is the quirky, unassuming heroine of the crime-comedy film "The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag," whose life spirals into chaos after she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
  • B. Betty Boynton
    Betty Boynton is known as the spouse of civil rights figure Bruce Boynton, whose case helped inspire the Freedom Rides challenging segregation in interstate travel.
  • C. Betty Brown
    Betty Brown was the wife of American vaudeville performer and comedian Ted Healy, best known for his work with the early Three Stooges.
  • D. Betty Thomas
    Betty Thomas is an American actress and director best known for her Emmy-winning role on the television drama "Hill Street Blues" and for directing several successful comedy films.
  • E. Betty Hicks
    Betty Hicks was the wife of famed American tenor and film star Mario Lanza, known for supporting him throughout his celebrated but turbulent career.
  • 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_69d8e8da8bec819081f400199491ccc3 completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6363c2660819093a6b9a444ca0ad4 completed April 20, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a074e75fec481909397b747891f9315 completed May 15, 2026, 4:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0750d8e8688190aa096bd8853fee89 completed May 15, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a075140b8708190aed4f54b072eacc7 completed May 15, 2026, 5 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:41 p.m.