Triple
T347631
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
E6974
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
The Minister’s Black Veil
The Minister’s Black Veil is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of sin, guilt, and isolation through the mysterious decision of a New England minister to permanently cover his face with a black veil.
|
E45093
|
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: The Minister’s Black Veil | Statement: [Nathaniel Hawthorne, notableWork, The Minister’s Black Veil]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Minister’s Black Veil Context triple: [Nathaniel Hawthorne, notableWork, The Minister’s Black Veil]
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A.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores sin, guilt, and social judgment in a 17th-century Puritan community through the story of Hester Prynne and the emblematic letter "A" she is forced to wear.
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B.
The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of guilt, retribution, and inherited sin through the history of a cursed New England family and their ancestral mansion.
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C.
The Fall of the House of Usher
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a classic Gothic short story that explores themes of madness, decay, and the supernatural through the eerie decline of an aristocratic family and its crumbling mansion.
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D.
The Tell-Tale Heart
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores guilt and madness through the unreliable narration of a murderer haunted by the imagined beating of his victim’s heart.
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E.
The Masque of the Red Death
The Masque of the Red Death is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that allegorically explores themes of mortality and the inevitability of death through a prince’s doomed attempt to escape a deadly plague.
- 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: The Minister’s Black Veil Triple: [Nathaniel Hawthorne, notableWork, The Minister’s Black Veil]
Generated description
The Minister’s Black Veil is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of sin, guilt, and isolation through the mysterious decision of a New England minister to permanently cover his face with a black veil.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Minister’s Black Veil Target entity description: The Minister’s Black Veil is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of sin, guilt, and isolation through the mysterious decision of a New England minister to permanently cover his face with a black veil.
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A.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores sin, guilt, and social judgment in a 17th-century Puritan community through the story of Hester Prynne and the emblematic letter "A" she is forced to wear.
-
B.
The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of guilt, retribution, and inherited sin through the history of a cursed New England family and their ancestral mansion.
-
C.
The Fall of the House of Usher
"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a classic Gothic short story that explores themes of madness, decay, and the supernatural through the eerie decline of an aristocratic family and its crumbling mansion.
-
D.
The Tell-Tale Heart
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a classic Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores guilt and madness through the unreliable narration of a murderer haunted by the imagined beating of his victim’s heart.
-
E.
The Masque of the Red Death
The Masque of the Red Death is a Gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe that allegorically explores themes of mortality and the inevitability of death through a prince’s doomed attempt to escape a deadly plague.
- 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_69a2e7951ba08190960e90823b5078f3 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2eb1c1c908190b3a01de893207ed1 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:18 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a3e014e2748190b4c45b16186a0d66 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 6:43 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a3e08a1b00819089a278b25d5c2a8f |
completed | March 1, 2026, 6:45 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a3e1a5e2ec8190a5e7145ff36ace2e |
completed | March 1, 2026, 6:50 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.