Triple

T15039633
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Secret History E378565 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Charles Macaulay
Charles Macaulay is one of the morally conflicted classics students whose involvement in murder drives the psychological and philosophical tensions at the heart of Donna Tartt’s novel *The Secret History*.
E1133271 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: Charles Macaulay | Statement: [The Secret History, mainCharacter, Charles Macaulay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Macaulay
Context triple: [The Secret History, mainCharacter, Charles Macaulay]
  • A. Thomas Babington Macaulay
    Thomas Babington Macaulay was a 19th-century British historian, essayist, and Whig politician known for his influential writings on British history and his role in shaping colonial education and legal reforms in India.
  • B. Richard Macaulay
    Richard Macaulay was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s classic studio era, known for his work on crime dramas and film noirs.
  • C. Walter Scott
    Walter Scott was a prominent early 19th-century American Restoration Movement evangelist whose preaching and methods significantly shaped the development of the Stone–Campbell religious tradition.
  • D. Walter Scott
    Walter Scott is an American actor best known for his role in the coming-of-age film "Summer of '42."
  • E. Thomas Carlyle
    Thomas Carlyle was a 19th-century Scottish historian, essayist, and social critic known for his influential works on heroism, history, and the moral crises of industrial society.
  • 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: Charles Macaulay
Triple: [The Secret History, mainCharacter, Charles Macaulay]
Generated description
Charles Macaulay is one of the morally conflicted classics students whose involvement in murder drives the psychological and philosophical tensions at the heart of Donna Tartt’s novel *The Secret History*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Macaulay
Target entity description: Charles Macaulay is one of the morally conflicted classics students whose involvement in murder drives the psychological and philosophical tensions at the heart of Donna Tartt’s novel *The Secret History*.
  • A. Thomas Babington Macaulay
    Thomas Babington Macaulay was a 19th-century British historian, essayist, and Whig politician known for his influential writings on British history and his role in shaping colonial education and legal reforms in India.
  • B. Richard Macaulay
    Richard Macaulay was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood’s classic studio era, known for his work on crime dramas and film noirs.
  • C. Walter Scott
    Walter Scott is an American actor best known for his role in the coming-of-age film "Summer of '42."
  • D. Walter Scott
    Walter Scott was a prominent early 19th-century American Restoration Movement evangelist whose preaching and methods significantly shaped the development of the Stone–Campbell religious tradition.
  • E. Thomas Carlyle
    Thomas Carlyle was a 19th-century Scottish historian, essayist, and social critic known for his influential works on heroism, history, and the moral crises of industrial society.
  • 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_69d85cd46b2c819090d054c27787f677 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded82e79a481908ddb9609af8c4407 completed April 15, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe9de1c3a48190a9b3959a95627175 completed May 9, 2026, 2:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe9fdba3c48190b1d370f7c066801f completed May 9, 2026, 2:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fea0b87db881909607bcf0df5b0979 completed May 9, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3 a.m.