Triple

T14348758
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Discovery of Witches E355796 entity
Predicate basedOnWorkBy P2806 FINISHED
Object Deborah Harkness
Deborah Harkness is an American historian and novelist best known for her bestselling All Souls Trilogy, which blends fantasy, history, and romance.
E1092793 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: Deborah Harkness | Statement: [A Discovery of Witches, basedOnWorkBy, Deborah Harkness]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Deborah Harkness
Context triple: [A Discovery of Witches, basedOnWorkBy, Deborah Harkness]
  • A. Susanna Bennett
    Susanna Bennett was the wife of Irish Gothic writer Sheridan Le Fanu, known primarily through her marriage to the influential Victorian author.
  • B. Naomi Novik
    Naomi Novik is an American fantasy author best known for her Temeraire series and the award-winning novels Uprooted and Spinning Silver.
  • C. Mary K. Vernon
    Mary K. Vernon is a computer scientist known for her research in computer systems performance and for mentoring prominent scholars in the field.
  • D. Jacquetta Hawkes
    Jacquetta Hawkes was a British archaeologist and writer known for her influential books on prehistory and for popularizing archaeology in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Katharine Meyer
    Katharine Meyer was an influential American publisher and business leader best known for transforming The Washington Post into a major national newspaper and overseeing its coverage of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate scandal.
  • 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: Deborah Harkness
Triple: [A Discovery of Witches, basedOnWorkBy, Deborah Harkness]
Generated description
Deborah Harkness is an American historian and novelist best known for her bestselling All Souls Trilogy, which blends fantasy, history, and romance.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Deborah Harkness
Target entity description: Deborah Harkness is an American historian and novelist best known for her bestselling All Souls Trilogy, which blends fantasy, history, and romance.
  • A. Susanna Bennett
    Susanna Bennett was the wife of Irish Gothic writer Sheridan Le Fanu, known primarily through her marriage to the influential Victorian author.
  • B. Naomi Novik
    Naomi Novik is an American fantasy author best known for her Temeraire series and the award-winning novels Uprooted and Spinning Silver.
  • C. Mary K. Vernon
    Mary K. Vernon is a computer scientist known for her research in computer systems performance and for mentoring prominent scholars in the field.
  • D. Jacquetta Hawkes
    Jacquetta Hawkes was a British archaeologist and writer known for her influential books on prehistory and for popularizing archaeology in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Katharine Meyer
    Katharine Meyer was an influential American publisher and business leader best known for transforming The Washington Post into a major national newspaper and overseeing its coverage of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate scandal.
  • 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_69d82790a7e08190877e2d349b2e8d8e completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de8e8d081c8190ac805726a3e98f4c completed April 14, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd46a12ad08190a2f0dc5890ed5ce9 completed May 8, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd4768edc881909a0c586b6d9568a3 completed May 8, 2026, 2:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd47eb7db08190a68f60b255073d8d completed May 8, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:14 a.m.