Triple

T20736796
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mercedes McCambridge E509730 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object William Fifield
William Fifield was an American writer and journalist best known for his novels, interviews, and literary profiles of prominent cultural figures in the mid-20th century.
E1479650 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: William Fifield | Statement: [Mercedes McCambridge, spouse, William Fifield]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Fifield
Context triple: [Mercedes McCambridge, spouse, William Fifield]
  • A. Gene Milford
    Gene Milford was an American film editor known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films across several decades.
  • B. Jack B. Sowards
    Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
  • C. John Hailey
    John Hailey was a 19th-century Idaho pioneer, businessman, and politician whose contributions to the region’s early development led to the city of Hailey, Idaho being named in his honor.
  • D. Matthew Holworthy
    Matthew Holworthy was a 17th-century English merchant and philanthropist best known for endowing the Holworthy Professorship of English Law at the University of Cambridge.
  • E. Joseph Finegan
    Joseph Finegan was a Confederate general best known for leading Southern forces to victory at the Battle of Olustee in Florida during the American Civil War.
  • 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: William Fifield
Triple: [Mercedes McCambridge, spouse, William Fifield]
Generated description
William Fifield was an American writer and journalist best known for his novels, interviews, and literary profiles of prominent cultural figures in the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Fifield
Target entity description: William Fifield was an American writer and journalist best known for his novels, interviews, and literary profiles of prominent cultural figures in the mid-20th century.
  • A. Gene Milford
    Gene Milford was an American film editor known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films across several decades.
  • B. Jack B. Sowards
    Jack B. Sowards was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
  • C. John Hailey
    John Hailey was a 19th-century Idaho pioneer, businessman, and politician whose contributions to the region’s early development led to the city of Hailey, Idaho being named in his honor.
  • D. Matthew Holworthy
    Matthew Holworthy was a 17th-century English merchant and philanthropist best known for endowing the Holworthy Professorship of English Law at the University of Cambridge.
  • E. Joseph Finegan
    Joseph Finegan was a Confederate general best known for leading Southern forces to victory at the Battle of Olustee in Florida during the American Civil War.
  • 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_69e0b4c589c08190834fb5d86d0efa2b completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c20ac6e881908524be890be699e7 completed April 21, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09ad4729d8819085c5e5511a5239fb completed May 17, 2026, 11:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09ade09c0081908ec1962de430a6e8 completed May 17, 2026, noon
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09ae91d9cc8190a677124f1a0e1e4e completed May 17, 2026, 12:03 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:32 p.m.