Triple

T10845307
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Well E255994 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Hester Harper
Hester Harper is the psychologically complex, reclusive protagonist of Elizabeth Jolley’s novel "The Well," whose intense relationship with her young companion drives the story’s unsettling exploration of power, dependence, and moral ambiguity.
E889615 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: Hester Harper | Statement: [The Well, mainCharacter, Hester Harper]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hester Harper
Context triple: [The Well, mainCharacter, Hester Harper]
  • A. Hester Pitt
    Hester Pitt was a daughter of British statesman William Pitt the Elder, belonging to a prominent 18th-century political family.
  • B. Hester Eastman
    Hester Eastman is a minor character in John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," appearing as part of the extended social and familial world surrounding the book’s central figures.
  • C. Hester Sigerson
    Hester Sigerson was the mother of Irish poet Dora Sigerson Shorter and a member of the culturally active Sigerson family associated with Ireland’s literary and nationalist circles.
  • D. Hester Mahieu
    Hester Mahieu was a member of the Leiden Separatist community and the wife of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke, making her part of the early 17th-century English Pilgrim circle associated with the founding of Plymouth Colony.
  • E. Hester Dewsbury
    Hester Dewsbury was the wife of early Plymouth Colony settler Philip Delano, associated with the first generations of English colonists in New England.
  • 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: Hester Harper
Triple: [The Well, mainCharacter, Hester Harper]
Generated description
Hester Harper is the psychologically complex, reclusive protagonist of Elizabeth Jolley’s novel "The Well," whose intense relationship with her young companion drives the story’s unsettling exploration of power, dependence, and moral ambiguity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hester Harper
Target entity description: Hester Harper is the psychologically complex, reclusive protagonist of Elizabeth Jolley’s novel "The Well," whose intense relationship with her young companion drives the story’s unsettling exploration of power, dependence, and moral ambiguity.
  • A. Hester Pitt
    Hester Pitt was a daughter of British statesman William Pitt the Elder, belonging to a prominent 18th-century political family.
  • B. Hester Eastman
    Hester Eastman is a minor character in John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," appearing as part of the extended social and familial world surrounding the book’s central figures.
  • C. Hester Sigerson
    Hester Sigerson was the mother of Irish poet Dora Sigerson Shorter and a member of the culturally active Sigerson family associated with Ireland’s literary and nationalist circles.
  • D. Hester Mahieu
    Hester Mahieu was a member of the Leiden Separatist community and the wife of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke, making her part of the early 17th-century English Pilgrim circle associated with the founding of Plymouth Colony.
  • E. Hester Dewsbury
    Hester Dewsbury was the wife of early Plymouth Colony settler Philip Delano, associated with the first generations of English colonists in New England.
  • 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_69d6aa81a5d08190aa86689061d1ddd2 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d750d0155c81908fb55ba6b45db800 completed April 9, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69deb162d718819081fbc3a082672b4f completed April 14, 2026, 9:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69dec255abb08190bf93573c41aa35e9 completed April 14, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69dec7c48c3c81909365b901830f0906 completed April 14, 2026, 11:03 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:19 p.m.