Triple

T1268955
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herman Melville E15665 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Billy Budd
Billy Budd is a posthumously published novella by Herman Melville that tells the tragic story of an innocent sailor caught in a moral and legal conflict aboard a British warship.
E147115 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: Billy Budd | Statement: [Herman Melville, notableWork, Billy Budd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billy Budd
Context triple: [Herman Melville, notableWork, Billy Budd]
  • A. White-Jacket
    White-Jacket is a semi-autobiographical 1850 novel by Herman Melville that critiques life and discipline aboard a U.S. Navy warship.
  • B. Redburn
    Redburn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Herman Melville that follows a young man's coming-of-age voyage as a sailor on a transatlantic ship.
  • C. The Ship
    The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
  • D. Benito Cereno
    Benito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville that explores themes of slavery, power, and deception through the mysterious encounter between an American captain and a Spanish slave ship.
  • E. The Sea-Wolf
    The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London that explores brutality, individualism, and moral conflict through the clash between an intellectual castaway and a ruthless sea captain.
  • 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: Billy Budd
Triple: [Herman Melville, notableWork, Billy Budd]
Generated description
Billy Budd is a posthumously published novella by Herman Melville that tells the tragic story of an innocent sailor caught in a moral and legal conflict aboard a British warship.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billy Budd
Target entity description: Billy Budd is a posthumously published novella by Herman Melville that tells the tragic story of an innocent sailor caught in a moral and legal conflict aboard a British warship.
  • A. White-Jacket
    White-Jacket is a semi-autobiographical 1850 novel by Herman Melville that critiques life and discipline aboard a U.S. Navy warship.
  • B. Redburn
    Redburn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Herman Melville that follows a young man's coming-of-age voyage as a sailor on a transatlantic ship.
  • C. The Ship
    The Ship is an informal nickname for the TARDIS, the Doctor’s time-traveling spacecraft and time machine in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who.
  • D. Benito Cereno
    Benito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville that explores themes of slavery, power, and deception through the mysterious encounter between an American captain and a Spanish slave ship.
  • E. The Sea-Wolf
    The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London that explores brutality, individualism, and moral conflict through the clash between an intellectual castaway and a ruthless sea captain.
  • 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_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_69acacb5b8888190aa969c0d8cc3fd0d completed March 7, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acad018a6881908a4c10920f377484 completed March 7, 2026, 10:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acad6489448190b7b3dff089a17145 completed March 7, 2026, 10:57 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.