Triple

T9392075
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ted Knight E226047 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Dorothy Smith
Dorothy Smith was the wife of American actor and comedian Ted Knight, known for his roles on television sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
E796227 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: Dorothy Smith | Statement: [Ted Knight, spouse, Dorothy Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dorothy Smith
Context triple: [Ted Knight, spouse, Dorothy Smith]
  • A. Dorothy Helen Smith
    Dorothy Helen Smith was a Canadian sociologist and feminist theorist best known for developing institutional ethnography as a method of inquiry into everyday life and power relations.
  • B. Joan Scott
    Joan Scott was the wife of British statesman and former Prime Minister George Canning, known primarily for her role within this prominent political family in early 19th-century Britain.
  • C. Ellen Woodward
    Ellen Woodward was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning organic chemist Robert Burns Woodward.
  • D. Barbara Franklin
    Barbara Franklin is an American business executive and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce known for advancing women’s roles in government and corporate leadership.
  • E. Mary Ware Dennett
    Mary Ware Dennett was an early 20th-century American birth control advocate, sex education reformer, and feminist leader who played a key role in challenging obscenity laws and expanding access to reproductive information.
  • 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: Dorothy Smith
Triple: [Ted Knight, spouse, Dorothy Smith]
Generated description
Dorothy Smith was the wife of American actor and comedian Ted Knight, known for his roles on television sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dorothy Smith
Target entity description: Dorothy Smith was the wife of American actor and comedian Ted Knight, known for his roles on television sitcoms in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • A. Dorothy Helen Smith
    Dorothy Helen Smith was a Canadian sociologist and feminist theorist best known for developing institutional ethnography as a method of inquiry into everyday life and power relations.
  • B. Joan Scott
    Joan Scott was the wife of British statesman and former Prime Minister George Canning, known primarily for her role within this prominent political family in early 19th-century Britain.
  • C. Ellen Woodward
    Ellen Woodward was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning organic chemist Robert Burns Woodward.
  • D. Barbara Franklin
    Barbara Franklin is an American business executive and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce known for advancing women’s roles in government and corporate leadership.
  • E. Mary Ware Dennett
    Mary Ware Dennett was an early 20th-century American birth control advocate, sex education reformer, and feminist leader who played a key role in challenging obscenity laws and expanding access to reproductive information.
  • 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_69ca842f7e3481908bf5bcf52e032dbd completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd510eae0c8190b7c4ab487a366bb3 completed April 1, 2026, 5:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1010169d88190a7267615a9196d4b completed April 4, 2026, 12:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1024817f88190973d30bcbf0db228 completed April 4, 2026, 12:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d102b154f88190b13868ce5df59510 completed April 4, 2026, 12:23 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:45 p.m.