Triple

T21671626
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject E. T. Whittaker E534858 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Mary Ferguson McNaghten
Mary Ferguson McNaghten was the wife of the prominent British mathematician and physicist E. T. Whittaker.
E1495921 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 Ferguson McNaghten | Statement: [E. T. Whittaker, spouse, Mary Ferguson McNaghten]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Ferguson McNaghten
Context triple: [E. T. Whittaker, spouse, Mary Ferguson McNaghten]
  • A. Mary Nicholson
    Mary Nicholson is known as the wife of Sir George Christie, the former chairman of the Glyndebourne opera festival.
  • B. Susan Stevenson
    Susan Stevenson is the adventurous female protagonist of the 1978 Italian horror-adventure film "The Mountain of the Cannibal God," who journeys into the New Guinea jungle in search of her missing husband.
  • C. Susan Montford
    Susan Montford is a Scottish-born film producer, writer, and director known for her work on genre films and collaborations with filmmaker Don Coscarelli.
  • D. Carol Harrison
    Carol Harrison is a British actress best known for her role as Louise Raymond in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders."
  • E. Marie Buchanon
    Marie Buchanon is a supporting character in the 2019 historical drama film "Harriet," which portrays the life and legacy of abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
  • 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 Ferguson McNaghten
Triple: [E. T. Whittaker, spouse, Mary Ferguson McNaghten]
Generated description
Mary Ferguson McNaghten was the wife of the prominent British mathematician and physicist E. T. Whittaker.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Ferguson McNaghten
Target entity description: Mary Ferguson McNaghten was the wife of the prominent British mathematician and physicist E. T. Whittaker.
  • A. Mary Nicholson
    Mary Nicholson is known as the wife of Sir George Christie, the former chairman of the Glyndebourne opera festival.
  • B. Susan Stevenson
    Susan Stevenson is the adventurous female protagonist of the 1978 Italian horror-adventure film "The Mountain of the Cannibal God," who journeys into the New Guinea jungle in search of her missing husband.
  • C. Susan Montford
    Susan Montford is a Scottish-born film producer, writer, and director known for her work on genre films and collaborations with filmmaker Don Coscarelli.
  • D. Carol Harrison
    Carol Harrison is a British actress best known for her role as Louise Raymond in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders."
  • E. Marie Buchanon
    Marie Buchanon is a supporting character in the 2019 historical drama film "Harriet," which portrays the life and legacy of abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
  • 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_69e0c46898008190aa618a4af55bd1ee completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ef8a0badd08190ad2ec2b8e46be379 completed April 27, 2026, 4:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a15a7a19c8190a38ef90422f7feeb completed May 17, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a16ac5ee881909ede61c149be61fa completed May 17, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a17d9a48881908d9858e40d41674c completed May 17, 2026, 7:32 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:37 p.m.