Triple

T20853023
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject In the Days of the Comet E513409 entity
Predicate hasMainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object William Leadford
William Leadford is the protagonist of H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "In the Days of the Comet," through whose experiences the story’s social and cosmic transformations are explored.
E1453988 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 Leadford | Statement: [In the Days of the Comet, hasMainCharacter, William Leadford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Leadford
Context triple: [In the Days of the Comet, hasMainCharacter, William Leadford]
  • A. Cecil Purdy
    Cecil Purdy was an Australian chess player, writer, and the first official World Correspondence Chess Champion, renowned for his instructional contributions to the game.
  • B. Elihu Doty
    Elihu Doty was a 19th-century American missionary and linguist known for his pioneering role in developing and promoting the Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization system for Southern Min (Hokkien) Chinese.
  • C. Wilbur Bascomb
    Wilbur Bascomb is an American jazz and funk bassist known for his work as a session musician and collaborations with prominent artists in the 1970s and beyond.
  • D. William Beecher
    William Beecher was a member of the prominent 19th-century Beecher family, known for its influential religious and social reform figures in American history.
  • E. J. A. Somerby
    J. A. Somerby was an American settler and town founder credited with establishing the city of Richland Center in Wisconsin.
  • 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 Leadford
Triple: [In the Days of the Comet, hasMainCharacter, William Leadford]
Generated description
William Leadford is the protagonist of H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "In the Days of the Comet," through whose experiences the story’s social and cosmic transformations are explored.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Leadford
Target entity description: William Leadford is the protagonist of H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "In the Days of the Comet," through whose experiences the story’s social and cosmic transformations are explored.
  • A. Cecil Purdy
    Cecil Purdy was an Australian chess player, writer, and the first official World Correspondence Chess Champion, renowned for his instructional contributions to the game.
  • B. Elihu Doty
    Elihu Doty was a 19th-century American missionary and linguist known for his pioneering role in developing and promoting the Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization system for Southern Min (Hokkien) Chinese.
  • C. Wilbur Bascomb
    Wilbur Bascomb is an American jazz and funk bassist known for his work as a session musician and collaborations with prominent artists in the 1970s and beyond.
  • D. William Beecher
    William Beecher was a member of the prominent 19th-century Beecher family, known for its influential religious and social reform figures in American history.
  • E. J. A. Somerby
    J. A. Somerby was an American settler and town founder credited with establishing the city of Richland Center in Wisconsin.
  • 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_69e0b4f4898081908209e58edb8f9c45 completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c3a4df5c8190aa0e7684ad6fc9f2 completed April 21, 2026, 12:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a090b0980f48190a2dc1cc29621bcd8 completed May 17, 2026, 12:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a090bf30e048190a2c81dece02c997d completed May 17, 2026, 12:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a090d0d52fc8190aed0a475f3424213 completed May 17, 2026, 12:34 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:44 p.m.