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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.