Triple

T21102881
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mary (For the Time Being) E519953 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object Mary
Mary is the central, reflective protagonist of Annie Dillard’s nonfiction work "For the Time Being," through whom themes of spirituality, mortality, and meaning are explored.
E1466915 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: Mary | Statement: [Mary (For the Time Being), name, Mary]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary
Context triple: [Mary (For the Time Being), name, Mary]
  • A. Mary
    Mary is the given name of the American suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark, known for her bestselling mystery and thriller books.
  • B. Mary
    Mary of Waltham, Duchess of Brittany, was a 14th-century English princess and daughter of King Edward III who became duchess through her marriage to John IV, Duke of Brittany.
  • C. Mary
    Mary is the middle name of Edith Tolkien, the wife of author J.R.R. Tolkien.
  • D. Mary
    Mary is the birth name of American actress, comedian, and writer Lily Tomlin, known for her groundbreaking work in television, film, and theater.
  • E. Mary
    Mary is the given first name of American actress, author, and radio host Marilu Henner.
  • 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: Mary
Triple: [Mary (For the Time Being), name, Mary]
Generated description
Mary is the central, reflective protagonist of Annie Dillard’s nonfiction work "For the Time Being," through whom themes of spirituality, mortality, and meaning are explored.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary
Target entity description: Mary is the central, reflective protagonist of Annie Dillard’s nonfiction work "For the Time Being," through whom themes of spirituality, mortality, and meaning are explored.
  • A. Mary
    Mary is a central character in W. H. Auden’s long poem "For the Time Being," which reimagines the Nativity story in a modern, philosophical context.
  • B. Mary
    Mary is the central protagonist of the play "The Memory of Water," around whom the story’s emotional and familial conflicts revolve.
  • C. Mary
    Mary is a central character in Robert Frost's narrative poem "The Death of the Hired Man," serving as a compassionate and mediating presence between her husband Warren and the returning farmhand Silas.
  • D. Mary
    Mary is a central protagonist in Robert A. Heinlein’s science fiction novel "The Puppet Masters," playing a key role in humanity’s struggle against parasitic alien invaders.
  • E. Mary
    Mary is a fictional character in B.F. Skinner’s utopian novel "Walden Two," representing one of the community’s young members shaped by its behaviorist social principles.
  • 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_69e0b508d8dc81909be940dafe36c8f7 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e71b5ee8948190ac6e9e144d312c90 completed April 21, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a095a64af448190b307dff9d4a87baf completed May 17, 2026, 6:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a095c4b5ad8819093e5c0de866be84b completed May 17, 2026, 6:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a095cda3c8081908d85b3da4fc1c06f completed May 17, 2026, 6:14 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:53 p.m.