Triple

T18488452
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fifth Business E451751 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Dunstan Ramsay
Dunstan Ramsay is the introspective Canadian schoolteacher and war veteran who narrates Robertson Davies’ novel "Fifth Business," reflecting on his life, guilt, and the nature of sainthood.
E1328076 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: Dunstan Ramsay | Statement: [Fifth Business, mainCharacter, Dunstan Ramsay]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dunstan Ramsay
Context triple: [Fifth Business, mainCharacter, Dunstan Ramsay]
  • A. William Dunstan
    William Dunstan was an Australian soldier in World War I who received the Victoria Cross for exceptional bravery during the Gallipoli campaign.
  • B. Dunstan Cass
    Dunstan Cass is a selfish, manipulative, and morally corrupt young man who serves as one of the primary antagonists in George Eliot’s novel "Silas Marner."
  • C. John of Lorne
    John of Lorne was a Scottish nobleman of the MacDougall family who opposed Robert the Bruce during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
  • D. Marcus Dunstan
    Marcus Dunstan is an American screenwriter and director best known for co-writing several films in the Saw horror franchise and creating the Collector series.
  • E. Richard of Manners, Abbot of Melrose
    Richard of Manners was a medieval abbot of Melrose Abbey in Scotland, remembered as one of the monastery’s notable religious leaders and buried within its grounds.
  • 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: Dunstan Ramsay
Triple: [Fifth Business, mainCharacter, Dunstan Ramsay]
Generated description
Dunstan Ramsay is the introspective Canadian schoolteacher and war veteran who narrates Robertson Davies’ novel "Fifth Business," reflecting on his life, guilt, and the nature of sainthood.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dunstan Ramsay
Target entity description: Dunstan Ramsay is the introspective Canadian schoolteacher and war veteran who narrates Robertson Davies’ novel "Fifth Business," reflecting on his life, guilt, and the nature of sainthood.
  • A. William Dunstan
    William Dunstan was an Australian soldier in World War I who received the Victoria Cross for exceptional bravery during the Gallipoli campaign.
  • B. Dunstan Cass
    Dunstan Cass is a selfish, manipulative, and morally corrupt young man who serves as one of the primary antagonists in George Eliot’s novel "Silas Marner."
  • C. John of Lorne
    John of Lorne was a Scottish nobleman of the MacDougall family who opposed Robert the Bruce during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
  • D. Marcus Dunstan
    Marcus Dunstan is an American screenwriter and director best known for co-writing several films in the Saw horror franchise and creating the Collector series.
  • E. Richard of Manners, Abbot of Melrose
    Richard of Manners was a medieval abbot of Melrose Abbey in Scotland, remembered as one of the monastery’s notable religious leaders and buried within its grounds.
  • 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_69d8d3855d50819097fc8561b0299dd9 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e531d8bac4819099306abbf78b9565 completed April 19, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a04713836f88190a331f7ad6a577d32 completed May 13, 2026, 12:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0472343abc819080eb1596cf53f220 completed May 13, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a04739589d48190a6da4d5f63b7272c completed May 13, 2026, 12:50 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:35 a.m.