Triple

T12001200
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Magdalen Hall, Oxford E285663 entity
Predicate educated P5 FINISHED
Object William Chillingworth
William Chillingworth was a 17th-century English theologian and controversialist best known for his influential work "The Religion of Protestants," which defended religious toleration and the use of reason in matters of faith.
E959050 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: William Chillingworth | Statement: [Magdalen Hall, Oxford, educated, William Chillingworth]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Chillingworth
Context triple: [Magdalen Hall, Oxford, educated, William Chillingworth]
  • A. Roger Chillingworth
    Roger Chillingworth is the vengeful, estranged husband of Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel "The Scarlet Letter," who obsessively seeks to torment her secret lover.
  • B. Nathaniel Hathorne Sr.
    Nathaniel Hathorne Sr. was a New England sea captain and the father of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne.
  • C. Arthur Dimmesdale
    Arthur Dimmesdale is the tormented young Puritan minister in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s *The Scarlet Letter*, whose hidden guilt over an adulterous affair drives much of the novel’s psychological and moral drama.
  • D. Thomas Putnam
    Thomas Putnam was a prominent and influential accuser during the Salem witch trials, known for aggressively pursuing witchcraft charges against many of his neighbors.
  • E. Samuel Parris
    Samuel Parris was the Puritan minister of Salem Village whose accusations and sermons helped ignite and intensify the Salem witch trials of 1692.
  • 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: William Chillingworth
Triple: [Magdalen Hall, Oxford, educated, William Chillingworth]
Generated description
William Chillingworth was a 17th-century English theologian and controversialist best known for his influential work "The Religion of Protestants," which defended religious toleration and the use of reason in matters of faith.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Chillingworth
Target entity description: William Chillingworth was a 17th-century English theologian and controversialist best known for his influential work "The Religion of Protestants," which defended religious toleration and the use of reason in matters of faith.
  • A. Roger Chillingworth
    Roger Chillingworth is the vengeful, estranged husband of Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel "The Scarlet Letter," who obsessively seeks to torment her secret lover.
  • B. Nathaniel Hathorne Sr.
    Nathaniel Hathorne Sr. was a New England sea captain and the father of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne.
  • C. Arthur Dimmesdale
    Arthur Dimmesdale is the tormented young Puritan minister in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s *The Scarlet Letter*, whose hidden guilt over an adulterous affair drives much of the novel’s psychological and moral drama.
  • D. Thomas Putnam
    Thomas Putnam was a prominent and influential accuser during the Salem witch trials, known for aggressively pursuing witchcraft charges against many of his neighbors.
  • E. Samuel Parris
    Samuel Parris was the Puritan minister of Salem Village whose accusations and sermons helped ignite and intensify the Salem witch trials of 1692.
  • 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_69d6ab45a368819084fce08bf0dc3705 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d903c36b248190b446b17def94885b completed April 10, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f4729eb4a081909d93b3fc74509d86 completed May 1, 2026, 9:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f47b7e4a40819085680c48eed5418a completed May 1, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f47df40a8c8190bd7350ba27f57214 completed May 1, 2026, 10:18 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.