Triple

T14323971
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Snow Falling on Cedars E355166 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Ishmael Chambers
Ishmael Chambers is the introspective, war-scarred journalist protagonist of David Guterson’s novel "Snow Falling on Cedars," whose investigation into a local murder forces him to confront his past and the racial tensions in his community.
E1093778 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: Ishmael Chambers | Statement: [Snow Falling on Cedars, featuresCharacter, Ishmael Chambers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ishmael Chambers
Context triple: [Snow Falling on Cedars, featuresCharacter, Ishmael Chambers]
  • A. Nathaniel Chambers
    Nathaniel Chambers is a computer scientist known for his work in natural language processing, particularly in narrative event understanding and script learning.
  • B. Elias Walker
    Elias Walker is a central military leader and father figure in the Call of Duty: Ghosts campaign, serving as the commanding officer of the Ghosts special operations unit.
  • C. Ephraim Chambers
    Ephraim Chambers was an English writer and encyclopedist best known for compiling the influential early 18th-century reference work "Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences."
  • D. Isaac Gale
    Isaac Gale is an American musician and visual artist known for his work in the indie and experimental music scenes, including collaborations with the collective Gayngs.
  • E. Asael Smith
    Asael Smith was an early American settler and Revolutionary War veteran best known as the grandfather of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
  • 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: Ishmael Chambers
Triple: [Snow Falling on Cedars, featuresCharacter, Ishmael Chambers]
Generated description
Ishmael Chambers is the introspective, war-scarred journalist protagonist of David Guterson’s novel "Snow Falling on Cedars," whose investigation into a local murder forces him to confront his past and the racial tensions in his community.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ishmael Chambers
Target entity description: Ishmael Chambers is the introspective, war-scarred journalist protagonist of David Guterson’s novel "Snow Falling on Cedars," whose investigation into a local murder forces him to confront his past and the racial tensions in his community.
  • A. Nathaniel Chambers
    Nathaniel Chambers is a computer scientist known for his work in natural language processing, particularly in narrative event understanding and script learning.
  • B. Elias Walker
    Elias Walker is a central military leader and father figure in the Call of Duty: Ghosts campaign, serving as the commanding officer of the Ghosts special operations unit.
  • C. Ephraim Chambers
    Ephraim Chambers was an English writer and encyclopedist best known for compiling the influential early 18th-century reference work "Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences."
  • D. Isaac Gale
    Isaac Gale is an American musician and visual artist known for his work in the indie and experimental music scenes, including collaborations with the collective Gayngs.
  • E. Asael Smith
    Asael Smith was an early American settler and Revolutionary War veteran best known as the grandfather of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
  • 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_69d8278fa2108190bc0d0e7939c1eb03 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de883d1de88190a1e2bf2f1b692197 completed April 14, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd468e263c81909d7261bcfd949579 completed May 8, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd4811e2808190b559d8348079ae8f completed May 8, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd48d827488190b4a494d4da64ba51 completed May 8, 2026, 2:22 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:13 a.m.