Triple

T1931148
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Gold-Bug E40949 entity
Predicate hasMainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object William Legrand
William Legrand is the eccentric, reclusive amateur cryptographer and treasure hunter who serves as the protagonist of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Gold-Bug.”
E218110 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: William Legrand | Statement: [The Gold-Bug, hasMainCharacter, William Legrand]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Legrand
Context triple: [The Gold-Bug, hasMainCharacter, William Legrand]
  • A. Lucien Ballard
    Lucien Ballard was an American cinematographer renowned for his innovative lighting techniques and influential work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1970s.
  • B. Stephen Sauvestre
    Stephen Sauvestre was a French architect best known for designing the architectural embellishments and final aesthetic of the Eiffel Tower.
  • C. Paul Tulane
    Paul Tulane was a 19th-century American philanthropist best known for his major endowment that led to the establishment of Tulane University in New Orleans.
  • D. William Barfée
    William Barfée is a socially awkward, allergy-prone spelling prodigy known for his “magic foot” spelling technique in the musical comedy *The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee*.
  • E. Jules Gilliéron
    Jules Gilliéron was a pioneering Swiss-French linguist and dialectologist best known for his foundational work in Romance linguistics and the creation of the Atlas linguistique de la France.
  • 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: William Legrand
Triple: [The Gold-Bug, hasMainCharacter, William Legrand]
Generated description
William Legrand is the eccentric, reclusive amateur cryptographer and treasure hunter who serves as the protagonist of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Gold-Bug.”
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Legrand
Target entity description: William Legrand is the eccentric, reclusive amateur cryptographer and treasure hunter who serves as the protagonist of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Gold-Bug.”
  • A. Lucien Ballard
    Lucien Ballard was an American cinematographer renowned for his innovative lighting techniques and influential work on numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1970s.
  • B. Stephen Sauvestre
    Stephen Sauvestre was a French architect best known for designing the architectural embellishments and final aesthetic of the Eiffel Tower.
  • C. Paul Tulane
    Paul Tulane was a 19th-century American philanthropist best known for his major endowment that led to the establishment of Tulane University in New Orleans.
  • D. William Barfée
    William Barfée is a socially awkward, allergy-prone spelling prodigy known for his “magic foot” spelling technique in the musical comedy *The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee*.
  • E. Jules Gilliéron
    Jules Gilliéron was a pioneering Swiss-French linguist and dialectologist best known for his foundational work in Romance linguistics and the creation of the Atlas linguistique de la France.
  • 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_69a8864711648190b07bed24ed76258e completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb296910481908c9668518c09fdb0 completed March 7, 2026, 5:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adfbb2cc988190a4046c17c8389996 completed March 8, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adfc6aa96c81909ae3cff6c7ab7f79 completed March 8, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adfcebbc808190a74f9082636bce11 completed March 8, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:35 p.m.