Triple

T12359833
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Woodlanders E294705 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object George Melbury
George Melbury is a central figure in Thomas Hardy’s novel "The Woodlanders," portrayed as an ambitious timber-merchant and protective father whose social aspirations drive much of the story’s conflict.
E1013334 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: George Melbury | Statement: [The Woodlanders, mainCharacter, George Melbury]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Melbury
Context triple: [The Woodlanders, mainCharacter, George Melbury]
  • A. George Morton
    George Morton was a 17th-century English Puritan and early supporter of the Plymouth Colony, best known for helping publish and promote accounts of the Pilgrims in England.
  • B. George Ambrose Lloyd
    George Ambrose Lloyd was a British colonial administrator and politician who served as Governor of Bombay and later as Governor of Bengal during the early 20th century.
  • C. George Giffard
    George Giffard was a British Army general who held senior command roles during World War II, particularly in the Southeast Asian theatre.
  • D. Edward Maltby
    Edward Maltby was a 19th-century English clergyman who served as Bishop of Chichester and later Bishop of Durham in the Church of England.
  • E. Edward Milford
    Edward Milford was a senior Australian Army officer and World War II commander who played a key leadership role in the Pacific theatre.
  • 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: George Melbury
Triple: [The Woodlanders, mainCharacter, George Melbury]
Generated description
George Melbury is a central figure in Thomas Hardy’s novel "The Woodlanders," portrayed as an ambitious timber-merchant and protective father whose social aspirations drive much of the story’s conflict.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Melbury
Target entity description: George Melbury is a central figure in Thomas Hardy’s novel "The Woodlanders," portrayed as an ambitious timber-merchant and protective father whose social aspirations drive much of the story’s conflict.
  • A. George Morton
    George Morton was a 17th-century English Puritan and early supporter of the Plymouth Colony, best known for helping publish and promote accounts of the Pilgrims in England.
  • B. George Ambrose Lloyd
    George Ambrose Lloyd was a British colonial administrator and politician who served as Governor of Bombay and later as Governor of Bengal during the early 20th century.
  • C. George Giffard
    George Giffard was a British Army general who held senior command roles during World War II, particularly in the Southeast Asian theatre.
  • D. Edward Maltby
    Edward Maltby was a 19th-century English clergyman who served as Bishop of Chichester and later Bishop of Durham in the Church of England.
  • E. Edward Milford
    Edward Milford was a senior Australian Army officer and World War II commander who played a key leadership role in the Pacific theatre.
  • 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_69d6ab6d8a4081908636601e69ddf262 completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d93f90201481909359416b8b9f7871 completed April 10, 2026, 6:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6b8bc820c8190b6e54a381621fdc8 completed May 3, 2026, 2:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b9dac2c88190850304023f156969 completed May 3, 2026, 2:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6bb03d8d88190930edd0f49fec8aa completed May 3, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:54 p.m.