Triple
T19399000
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Mary (The Death of the Hired Man) |
E485266
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entity |
| Predicate | speaksAbout |
P3281
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FINISHED |
| Object | Silas (The Death of the Hired Man) |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Silas (The Death of the Hired Man) | Statement: [Mary (The Death of the Hired Man), speaksAbout, Silas (The Death of the Hired Man)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silas (The Death of the Hired Man) Context triple: [Mary (The Death of the Hired Man), speaksAbout, Silas (The Death of the Hired Man)]
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A.
Silas (The Death of the Hired Man)
chosen
Silas is the aging, itinerant farmhand in Robert Frost’s poem "The Death of the Hired Man," whose return to Warren and Mary’s farm raises questions about duty, compassion, and the meaning of home.
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B.
Warren (The Death of the Hired Man)
Warren is a central character in Robert Frost’s narrative poem "The Death of the Hired Man," portrayed as a practical New England farmer whose conflicted sense of duty and justice shapes the poem’s exploration of home, responsibility, and forgiveness.
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C.
The Death of the Hired Man
The Death of the Hired Man is a narrative poem by Robert Frost that explores themes of home, duty, and compassion through a couple’s late-night discussion about an aging farmhand who has returned to die.
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D.
Grange Copeland
Grange Copeland is the troubled African American sharecropper whose life of oppression, violence, and eventual moral reckoning forms the central focus of Alice Walker’s novel *The Third Life of Grange Copeland*.
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E.
The Farmer
The Farmer is a lost comedic play by the ancient Greek playwright Philemon, who was a prominent figure of New Comedy.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8e8d5162481909db12435d9535c1a |
completed | April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e62575d78881909c2cfee799859261 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 1:09 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:36 p.m.