Triple
T2344213
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Minister’s Black Veil |
E45093
|
entity |
| Predicate | character |
P662
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Reverend Mr. Hooper |
E258317
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Reverend Mr. Hooper | Statement: [The Minister’s Black Veil, character, Reverend Mr. Hooper]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Reverend Mr. Hooper Context triple: [The Minister’s Black Veil, character, Reverend Mr. Hooper]
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A.
Reverend Mr. Hooper
chosen
Reverend Mr. Hooper is the somber Puritan clergyman in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story who dons a mysterious black veil that symbolizes hidden sin and alienates him from his congregation and community.
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B.
Arthur Dimmesdale
Arthur Dimmesdale is the tormented young Puritan minister in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s *The Scarlet Letter*, whose hidden guilt over an adulterous affair drives much of the novel’s psychological and moral drama.
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C.
Samuel Parris
Samuel Parris was the Puritan minister of Salem Village whose accusations and sermons helped ignite and intensify the Salem witch trials of 1692.
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D.
Reverend John Hale
Reverend John Hale is a devout, intellectually confident minister and witchcraft expert whose moral transformation and growing doubt about the Salem trials form a central arc in Arthur Miller’s play *The Crucible*.
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E.
Roger Chillingworth
Roger Chillingworth is the vengeful, estranged husband of Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel "The Scarlet Letter," who obsessively seeks to torment her secret lover.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a88917935081909b755dbf38e81024 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abc6afe38c81909deb1de2a1c4eda9 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:33 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69aea88113988190b89abfc01f5bf6f4 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11:01 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:52 p.m.