Triple

T22890812
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Shadow Line E568034 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Joseph Bede
Joseph Bede is the central protagonist of Joseph Conrad’s novella "The Shadow Line," a young sea captain whose first command becomes a psychological and moral trial.
E1559925 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: Joseph Bede | Statement: [The Shadow Line, mainCharacter, Joseph Bede]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Bede
Context triple: [The Shadow Line, mainCharacter, Joseph Bede]
  • A. Seth Bede
    Seth Bede is a gentle, devout Methodist carpenter and the younger brother of the protagonist in George Eliot’s novel "Adam Bede."
  • B. Saint John Berchmans
    Saint John Berchmans was a 17th-century Belgian Jesuit scholastic renowned for his piety and dedication to religious life, later canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church.
  • C. Patrick Thaddeus
    Patrick Thaddeus was an American astronomer and astrophysicist renowned for his pioneering work in radio and millimeter-wave observations of interstellar molecules and the structure of the Milky Way.
  • D. Brother Theodore
    Brother Theodore was a German-American monologist and actor known for his darkly comedic, existential rants and cult appearances on late-night television and in offbeat films.
  • E. Saint Louis Martin
    Saint Louis Martin was a 19th-century French layman, watchmaker, and devout Catholic best known as the father of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and as a model of holy Christian family life.
  • 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: Joseph Bede
Triple: [The Shadow Line, mainCharacter, Joseph Bede]
Generated description
Joseph Bede is the central protagonist of Joseph Conrad’s novella "The Shadow Line," a young sea captain whose first command becomes a psychological and moral trial.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Bede
Target entity description: Joseph Bede is the central protagonist of Joseph Conrad’s novella "The Shadow Line," a young sea captain whose first command becomes a psychological and moral trial.
  • A. Seth Bede
    Seth Bede is a gentle, devout Methodist carpenter and the younger brother of the protagonist in George Eliot’s novel "Adam Bede."
  • B. Saint John Berchmans
    Saint John Berchmans was a 17th-century Belgian Jesuit scholastic renowned for his piety and dedication to religious life, later canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church.
  • C. Patrick Thaddeus
    Patrick Thaddeus was an American astronomer and astrophysicist renowned for his pioneering work in radio and millimeter-wave observations of interstellar molecules and the structure of the Milky Way.
  • D. Brother Theodore
    Brother Theodore was a German-American monologist and actor known for his darkly comedic, existential rants and cult appearances on late-night television and in offbeat films.
  • E. Saint Louis Martin
    Saint Louis Martin was a 19th-century French layman, watchmaker, and devout Catholic best known as the father of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and as a model of holy Christian family life.
  • 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_69e2458c23ec81908fa2570692c6614f completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f17fc59e108190a22f90c2439830fb completed April 29, 2026, 3:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0bb9c03a2481909a2c41b6cdab0363 completed May 19, 2026, 1:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0bbb6ca76c8190bde7e1eacb121d23 completed May 19, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0bbc1bd0808190a0a5f8f603308b45 completed May 19, 2026, 1:25 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:40 p.m.