Triple

T20482260
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Delia McCaskill Drinkard E502486 entity
Predicate motherOf P120 FINISHED
Object Emily "Cissy" Drinkard Houston
Emily "Cissy" Drinkard Houston is an American soul and gospel singer, renowned backup vocalist, and the mother of pop icon Whitney Houston.
E1434428 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: Emily "Cissy" Drinkard Houston | Statement: [Delia McCaskill Drinkard, motherOf, Emily "Cissy" Drinkard Houston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Emily "Cissy" Drinkard Houston
Context triple: [Delia McCaskill Drinkard, motherOf, Emily "Cissy" Drinkard Houston]
  • A. Eliza Allen Houston
    Eliza Allen Houston was a 19th-century American woman best known for her brief, tumultuous marriage to future Texas president Sam Houston and the enduring mystery surrounding their separation.
  • B. Henrietta Williams Houston
    Henrietta Williams Houston was the wife of pioneering civil rights lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston and a figure connected to the early 20th-century African American professional and activist community.
  • C. Yvonne Crittenden Robertson
    Yvonne Crittenden Robertson is best known as the longtime wife of NBA Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson.
  • D. Bernice McMurry Scott
    Bernice McMurry Scott was the mother of civil rights leader Coretta Scott King and a figure in the rural Black community of Alabama in the early 20th century.
  • E. Betty Jean McBricker
    Betty Jean McBricker is a minor character from the animated television series "The Flintstone Kids," appearing as one of the children in the show's prehistoric setting.
  • 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: Emily "Cissy" Drinkard Houston
Triple: [Delia McCaskill Drinkard, motherOf, Emily "Cissy" Drinkard Houston]
Generated description
Emily "Cissy" Drinkard Houston is an American soul and gospel singer, renowned backup vocalist, and the mother of pop icon Whitney Houston.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Emily "Cissy" Drinkard Houston
Target entity description: Emily "Cissy" Drinkard Houston is an American soul and gospel singer, renowned backup vocalist, and the mother of pop icon Whitney Houston.
  • A. Eliza Allen Houston
    Eliza Allen Houston was a 19th-century American woman best known for her brief, tumultuous marriage to future Texas president Sam Houston and the enduring mystery surrounding their separation.
  • B. Henrietta Williams Houston
    Henrietta Williams Houston was the wife of pioneering civil rights lawyer Charles Hamilton Houston and a figure connected to the early 20th-century African American professional and activist community.
  • C. Yvonne Crittenden Robertson
    Yvonne Crittenden Robertson is best known as the longtime wife of NBA Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson.
  • D. Bernice McMurry Scott
    Bernice McMurry Scott was the mother of civil rights leader Coretta Scott King and a figure in the rural Black community of Alabama in the early 20th century.
  • E. Betty Jean McBricker
    Betty Jean McBricker is a minor character from the animated television series "The Flintstone Kids," appearing as one of the children in the show's prehistoric setting.
  • 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_69e0b4af32848190aea80682b44d5d6e completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e69b57fa9c819091d12320d46a0cee completed April 20, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0893ae04f481908da8206dfba0b463 completed May 16, 2026, 3:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0894c4c8b88190b2ac594477811c7b completed May 16, 2026, 4:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08954be2688190a51911d6922a6413 completed May 16, 2026, 4:03 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:34 a.m.