Triple
T1268946
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Herman Melville |
E15665
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Moby-Dick |
E10500
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Moby-Dick | Statement: [Herman Melville, notableWork, Moby-Dick]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Moby-Dick Context triple: [Herman Melville, notableWork, Moby-Dick]
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A.
Moby-Dick
chosen
Moby-Dick is Herman Melville’s 1851 epic novel about Captain Ahab’s obsessive quest to hunt the white whale, widely regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
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B.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Edgar Allan Poe’s only completed novel, a dark seafaring adventure that blends nautical realism with gothic horror and the uncanny.
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C.
the Pequod
The Pequod is the whaling ship in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick," symbolizing obsessive pursuit and doomed ambition.
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D.
Ishmael
Ishmael is a significant figure in the Abrahamic religions, traditionally regarded as Abraham’s first son and an ancestor of various Arab peoples.
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E.
Captain Ahab
Captain Ahab is the obsessive, vengeful whaling ship captain in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick," driven to ruin by his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a4935a94308190bb92555b79032824 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4c03aaa8c8190bacb7de5a38329da |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:39 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac99898bdc8190bbbe28083b4a548b |
completed | March 7, 2026, 9:32 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.