Triple
T2901887
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Middlemarch |
E62671
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableCharacter |
P1481
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Edward Casaubon
Edward Casaubon is a pedantic, aging scholar in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch," best known as Dorothea Brooke’s ill-suited husband whose futile intellectual ambitions and emotional coldness drive much of the story’s tragedy.
|
E310139
|
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: Edward Casaubon | Statement: [Middlemarch, notableCharacter, Edward Casaubon]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Casaubon Context triple: [Middlemarch, notableCharacter, Edward Casaubon]
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A.
Mirandola
Mirandola is a historic town in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, known as the birthplace of Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
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B.
Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino was a pivotal 15th-century Italian philosopher, priest, and translator whose revival of Plato and development of Neoplatonism profoundly shaped Renaissance thought and humanism.
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C.
Lorenzo Brentano
Lorenzo Brentano was a 19th-century German-American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois and was active in liberal and revolutionary movements in Germany before emigrating to the United States.
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D.
Pico della Mirandola
Pico della Mirandola was an Italian Renaissance philosopher famed for his "Oration on the Dignity of Man," a foundational text of humanist thought.
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E.
Lorenzo Valla
Lorenzo Valla was a 15th-century Italian humanist, philologist, and critic best known for his pioneering textual analysis that exposed the Donation of Constantine as a forgery and helped shape Renaissance humanist scholarship.
- 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: Edward Casaubon Triple: [Middlemarch, notableCharacter, Edward Casaubon]
Generated description
Edward Casaubon is a pedantic, aging scholar in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch," best known as Dorothea Brooke’s ill-suited husband whose futile intellectual ambitions and emotional coldness drive much of the story’s tragedy.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Casaubon Target entity description: Edward Casaubon is a pedantic, aging scholar in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch," best known as Dorothea Brooke’s ill-suited husband whose futile intellectual ambitions and emotional coldness drive much of the story’s tragedy.
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A.
Mirandola
Mirandola is a historic town in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, known as the birthplace of Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
-
B.
Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino was a pivotal 15th-century Italian philosopher, priest, and translator whose revival of Plato and development of Neoplatonism profoundly shaped Renaissance thought and humanism.
-
C.
Lorenzo Brentano
Lorenzo Brentano was a 19th-century German-American politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois and was active in liberal and revolutionary movements in Germany before emigrating to the United States.
-
D.
Pico della Mirandola
Pico della Mirandola was an Italian Renaissance philosopher famed for his "Oration on the Dignity of Man," a foundational text of humanist thought.
-
E.
Lorenzo Valla
Lorenzo Valla was a 15th-century Italian humanist, philologist, and critic best known for his pioneering textual analysis that exposed the Donation of Constantine as a forgery and helped shape Renaissance humanist scholarship.
- 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_69ab4c3e070c8190b78d3d2c005876dd |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abe0b261c081909b66b21520b4731b |
completed | March 7, 2026, 8:24 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b0560300548190879d148ec1791e7a |
completed | March 10, 2026, 5:33 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b05e6fa8b481908b7bb9fbcf780aa8 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 6:09 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b0621fe39c819098839b585ebbdb10 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 6:25 p.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:10 p.m.