Triple

T1268973
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herman Melville E15665 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object Thomas Melville
Thomas Melville was a brother of American novelist Herman Melville, known primarily through his connection to the famous author and the Melville family history.
 E203544 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: Thomas Melville | Statement: [Herman Melville, sibling, Thomas Melville]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Melville
Context triple: [Herman Melville, sibling, Thomas Melville]
  • A. Moorfield Storey
    Moorfield Storey was an American lawyer, civil rights leader, and anti-imperialist known for his early and influential advocacy for racial equality and justice.
  • B. George Pardee
    George Pardee was an American physician and Progressive-era politician who served as the 21st governor of California from 1903 to 1907.
  • C. C. S. Van Winkle
    C. S. Van Winkle was an early 19th-century American publisher and printer known for issuing works such as Washington Irving’s "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
  • D. Henry Wolfe
    Henry Wolfe is an American musician and actor known for his work as a singer-songwriter and for being the son of acclaimed actress Meryl Streep.
  • E. Johnston McCulley
    Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
  • 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: Thomas Melville
Triple: [Herman Melville, sibling, Thomas Melville]
Generated description
Thomas Melville was a brother of American novelist Herman Melville, known primarily through his connection to the famous author and the Melville family history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Melville
Target entity description: Thomas Melville was a brother of American novelist Herman Melville, known primarily through his connection to the famous author and the Melville family history.
  • A. Moorfield Storey
    Moorfield Storey was an American lawyer, civil rights leader, and anti-imperialist known for his early and influential advocacy for racial equality and justice.
  • B. George Pardee
    George Pardee was an American physician and Progressive-era politician who served as the 21st governor of California from 1903 to 1907.
  • C. C. S. Van Winkle
    C. S. Van Winkle was an early 19th-century American publisher and printer known for issuing works such as Washington Irving’s "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
  • D. Henry Wolfe
    Henry Wolfe is an American musician and actor known for his work as a singer-songwriter and for being the son of acclaimed actress Meryl Streep.
  • E. Johnston McCulley
    Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
  • 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_69adbf379d048190924ad8dfa9ac5e7a completed March 8, 2026, 6:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adc07e9ebc819082566cc98025b4ae completed March 8, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adc12c894881909c9a82fc9e363a41 completed March 8, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.