Triple
T319664
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Dean Howells |
E7784
|
entity |
| Predicate | father |
P120
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Cooper Howells |
E7784
|
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: William Cooper Howells | Statement: [William Dean Howells, father, William Cooper Howells]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Cooper Howells Context triple: [William Dean Howells, father, William Cooper Howells]
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A.
William Dean Howells
chosen
William Dean Howells was a prominent 19th-century American realist author, critic, and editor often called the "Dean of American Letters."
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B.
Henry James
Henry James was an influential American-born British author known for his psychologically complex novels and stories exploring consciousness, perception, and social relationships.
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C.
Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner was a 19th-century American essayist and novelist best known for co-authoring "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" with Mark Twain, which gave its name to the era of rapid economic growth and social inequality in post–Civil War America.
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D.
Edwin Thomas Meredith
Edwin Thomas Meredith was an American publishing magnate and politician who founded the media company that became Meredith Corporation and served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
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E.
Langdon Clemens
Langdon Clemens was the firstborn son of American author Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), who died in infancy.
- 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_69a2e7e7af7881908890039d6be4e9b8 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2ea7edbc48190b9031bd1af48f72a |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:15 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a3cafef7d48190b00f577488298605 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 5:13 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.