Triple

T347632
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nathaniel Hawthorne E6974 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Young Goodman Brown
Young Goodman Brown is a classic short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of Puritanism, faith, and the nature of evil through a man's disillusioning nighttime journey into a dark forest.
E45684 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: Young Goodman Brown | Statement: [Nathaniel Hawthorne, notableWork, Young Goodman Brown]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Young Goodman Brown
Context triple: [Nathaniel Hawthorne, notableWork, Young Goodman Brown]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. The Awakening Conscience
    The Awakening Conscience is an 1853 oil painting by William Holman Hunt that exemplifies Pre-Raphaelite moral realism, depicting a kept woman’s sudden moment of spiritual and moral realization.
  • E. The Devil and Tom Walker
    The Devil and Tom Walker is a short story by Washington Irving that satirically retells the Faust legend through the tale of a miserly New Englander who makes a fateful bargain with the Devil.
  • 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: Young Goodman Brown
Triple: [Nathaniel Hawthorne, notableWork, Young Goodman Brown]
Generated description
Young Goodman Brown is a classic short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of Puritanism, faith, and the nature of evil through a man's disillusioning nighttime journey into a dark forest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Young Goodman Brown
Target entity description: Young Goodman Brown is a classic short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of Puritanism, faith, and the nature of evil through a man's disillusioning nighttime journey into a dark forest.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. The Awakening Conscience
    The Awakening Conscience is an 1853 oil painting by William Holman Hunt that exemplifies Pre-Raphaelite moral realism, depicting a kept woman’s sudden moment of spiritual and moral realization.
  • E. The Devil and Tom Walker
    The Devil and Tom Walker is a short story by Washington Irving that satirically retells the Faust legend through the tale of a miserly New Englander who makes a fateful bargain with the Devil.
  • 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_69a3e57497948190918b163378036fd4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3e5e50b848190ab5d036719048df8 completed March 1, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3e63c749c8190b5bfd85b7ccafa9c completed March 1, 2026, 7:09 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.