Triple

T14705035
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Oil! E345405 entity
Predicate notableCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object Ruth Watkins
Ruth Watkins is a central character in Upton Sinclair’s muckraking novel "Oil!", representing the social and personal struggles surrounding early 20th-century American oil booms.
E1201652 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: Ruth Watkins | Statement: [Oil!, notableCharacter, Ruth Watkins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ruth Watkins
Context triple: [Oil!, notableCharacter, Ruth Watkins]
  • A. Ruth Henderson
    Ruth Henderson was an American actress and singer best known as the wife and professional partner of bandleader and television personality Skitch Henderson.
  • B. Margaret Watkins
    Margaret Watkins was an influential early 20th-century Canadian photographer known for her innovative still lifes and contributions to modernist photography.
  • C. Ruth McNair
    Ruth McNair is an Australian academic and general practitioner known for her advocacy and research in LGBTIQ+ health and inclusive primary care.
  • D. Ruth Hawkins
    Ruth Hawkins is known as the wife of the late English actor Tony Britton.
  • E. Ruth McCausland
    Ruth McCausland is the dedicated and increasingly alarmed town librarian and civic leader in Stephen King’s novel "The Tommyknockers," who becomes one of the first to recognize the sinister changes overtaking Haven.
  • 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: Ruth Watkins
Triple: [Oil!, notableCharacter, Ruth Watkins]
Generated description
Ruth Watkins is a central character in Upton Sinclair’s muckraking novel "Oil!", representing the social and personal struggles surrounding early 20th-century American oil booms.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ruth Watkins
Target entity description: Ruth Watkins is a central character in Upton Sinclair’s muckraking novel "Oil!", representing the social and personal struggles surrounding early 20th-century American oil booms.
  • A. Ruth Henderson
    Ruth Henderson was an American actress and singer best known as the wife and professional partner of bandleader and television personality Skitch Henderson.
  • B. Margaret Watkins
    Margaret Watkins was an influential early 20th-century Canadian photographer known for her innovative still lifes and contributions to modernist photography.
  • C. Ruth McNair
    Ruth McNair is an Australian academic and general practitioner known for her advocacy and research in LGBTIQ+ health and inclusive primary care.
  • D. Ruth Hawkins
    Ruth Hawkins is known as the wife of the late English actor Tony Britton.
  • E. Ruth McCausland
    Ruth McCausland is the dedicated and increasingly alarmed town librarian and civic leader in Stephen King’s novel "The Tommyknockers," who becomes one of the first to recognize the sinister changes overtaking Haven.
  • 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_69d822e4a8c08190a155df736bb7bc13 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69deb6086c608190a66c64e23a3e002f completed April 14, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a000ebbc67c8190bd930a2773edb5b2 completed May 10, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a000f7e6338819099598bc22d31cd22 completed May 10, 2026, 4:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a001025300c819084933d9c6d19fe97 completed May 10, 2026, 4:57 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:28 a.m.