Triple

T5195986
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Emily Drinkard E117271 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object Delia McCaskill Drinkard
Delia McCaskill Drinkard was a member of the prominent Drinkard family, known as the mother of singer Emily "Cissy" Drinkard Houston and grandmother of Whitney Houston.
 E502486 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: Delia McCaskill Drinkard | Statement: [Emily Drinkard, relative, Delia McCaskill Drinkard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Delia McCaskill Drinkard
Context triple: [Emily Drinkard, relative, Delia McCaskill Drinkard]
  • A. Dixie Lee
    Dixie Lee was an American singer and actress of the early 20th century, best known for her work in film and music as well as her marriage to Bing Crosby.
  • B. Susan Holbert McDaniel
    Susan Holbert McDaniel was the mother of pioneering African American actress Hattie McDaniel, the first Black performer to win an Academy Award.
  • C. Bettye Davis McCain
    Bettye Davis McCain was the wife of civil rights activist Franklin McCain and a supportive partner during his involvement in the Greensboro sit-ins and broader civil rights movement.
  • D. Lula Carson Smith
    Lula Carson Smith, better known as Carson McCullers, was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright renowned for her explorations of loneliness and the human condition in the American South.
  • E. Marion Nelson
    Marion Nelson is a screenwriter known for writing the screenplay for the film "Tracks."
  • 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: Delia McCaskill Drinkard
Triple: [Emily Drinkard, relative, Delia McCaskill Drinkard]
Generated description
Delia McCaskill Drinkard was a member of the prominent Drinkard family, known as the mother of singer Emily "Cissy" Drinkard Houston and grandmother of Whitney Houston.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Delia McCaskill Drinkard
Target entity description: Delia McCaskill Drinkard was a member of the prominent Drinkard family, known as the mother of singer Emily "Cissy" Drinkard Houston and grandmother of Whitney Houston.
  • A. Dixie Lee
    Dixie Lee was an American singer and actress of the early 20th century, best known for her work in film and music as well as her marriage to Bing Crosby.
  • B. Susan Holbert McDaniel
    Susan Holbert McDaniel was the mother of pioneering African American actress Hattie McDaniel, the first Black performer to win an Academy Award.
  • C. Bettye Davis McCain
    Bettye Davis McCain was the wife of civil rights activist Franklin McCain and a supportive partner during his involvement in the Greensboro sit-ins and broader civil rights movement.
  • D. Lula Carson Smith
    Lula Carson Smith, better known as Carson McCullers, was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright renowned for her explorations of loneliness and the human condition in the American South.
  • E. Marion Nelson
    Marion Nelson is a screenwriter known for writing the screenplay for the film "Tracks."
  • 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_69bd4462ed04819084fcb01eb9d2fa74 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7a1c2184819083f4b1d8830bebae completed March 20, 2026, 4:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69beefc1c03c819085acf062fac2913c completed March 21, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bef02080f48190836ed5c36e53a620 completed March 21, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bef099826481909b4c4e3e0718752a completed March 21, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:46 p.m.