Triple

T20348758
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jack Maggs E495949 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Tobias Oates
Tobias Oates is a fictional 19th-century writer and mesmerist in Peter Carey's novel "Jack Maggs," loosely based on Charles Dickens.
E1425645 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: Tobias Oates | Statement: [Jack Maggs, hasCharacter, Tobias Oates]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tobias Oates
Context triple: [Jack Maggs, hasCharacter, Tobias Oates]
  • A. Tobias Vaughn
    Tobias Vaughn is a villainous industrialist and secret ally of the Cybermen in the Doctor Who serial "The Invasion."
  • B. Tobias Wilson
    Tobias Wilson is a recurring character in the animated television series "The Amazing World of Gumball," known as a colorful, athletic student at Elmore Junior High.
  • C. Tobias Hawkins
    Tobias Hawkins is a member of the Shotwell group, likely contributing as part of its core cast or team.
  • D. Tobias Strickland
    Tobias Strickland is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Strickland.
  • E. Tobias Wren
    Tobias Wren is a central character in the British science-fiction television series "Doomwatch," which focuses on investigating and confronting the dangers of unchecked scientific and technological advancement.
  • 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: Tobias Oates
Triple: [Jack Maggs, hasCharacter, Tobias Oates]
Generated description
Tobias Oates is a fictional 19th-century writer and mesmerist in Peter Carey's novel "Jack Maggs," loosely based on Charles Dickens.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tobias Oates
Target entity description: Tobias Oates is a fictional 19th-century writer and mesmerist in Peter Carey's novel "Jack Maggs," loosely based on Charles Dickens.
  • A. Tobias Vaughn
    Tobias Vaughn is a villainous industrialist and secret ally of the Cybermen in the Doctor Who serial "The Invasion."
  • B. Tobias Wilson
    Tobias Wilson is a recurring character in the animated television series "The Amazing World of Gumball," known as a colorful, athletic student at Elmore Junior High.
  • C. Tobias Hawkins
    Tobias Hawkins is a member of the Shotwell group, likely contributing as part of its core cast or team.
  • D. Tobias Strickland
    Tobias Strickland is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Strickland.
  • E. Tobias Wren
    Tobias Wren is a central character in the British science-fiction television series "Doomwatch," which focuses on investigating and confronting the dangers of unchecked scientific and technological advancement.
  • 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_69e0b4a3320881909495ae8bc30bc2dc completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6783af5dc8190a40c3b9816cd1aef completed April 20, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0869656ae4819084679d901249c2f7 completed May 16, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0869cc7308819087028f44af0386c2 completed May 16, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a086ab4c0a08190a1cd3ca5ea07512f completed May 16, 2026, 1:01 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:24 a.m.