Triple

T3675822
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Copperfield E77988 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object James Steerforth
James Steerforth is a charismatic yet morally flawed gentleman in Charles Dickens's novel "David Copperfield," whose charm and selfishness profoundly affect the lives of those around him.
E378554 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: James Steerforth | Statement: [David Copperfield, featuresCharacter, James Steerforth]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Steerforth
Context triple: [David Copperfield, featuresCharacter, James Steerforth]
  • A. Ernest Maltravers
    Ernest Maltravers is a philosophical and melodramatic novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that explores themes of education, morality, and social ambition in 19th-century England.
  • B. Ralph Milbanke
    Ralph Milbanke was a British aristocrat and member of the Milbanke family, notable as the father of Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron.
  • C. Harry Coningsby
    Harry Coningsby is the idealistic young aristocratic protagonist of Benjamin Disraeli’s political novel "Coningsby, or The New Generation," whose development reflects the social and political transformations of early Victorian England.
  • D. Raymond
    Raymond is a surname most notably associated with Eric S. Raymond, an American software developer, open-source advocate, and author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."
  • E. Raymond
    Raymond is a central character in the Gothic novel "The Monk," known for his romantic entanglements and morally complex actions that drive much of the plot.
  • 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: James Steerforth
Triple: [David Copperfield, featuresCharacter, James Steerforth]
Generated description
James Steerforth is a charismatic yet morally flawed gentleman in Charles Dickens's novel "David Copperfield," whose charm and selfishness profoundly affect the lives of those around him.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Steerforth
Target entity description: James Steerforth is a charismatic yet morally flawed gentleman in Charles Dickens's novel "David Copperfield," whose charm and selfishness profoundly affect the lives of those around him.
  • A. Ernest Maltravers
    Ernest Maltravers is a philosophical and melodramatic novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that explores themes of education, morality, and social ambition in 19th-century England.
  • B. Ralph Milbanke
    Ralph Milbanke was a British aristocrat and member of the Milbanke family, notable as the father of Annabella Milbanke, the wife of poet Lord Byron.
  • C. Harry Coningsby
    Harry Coningsby is the idealistic young aristocratic protagonist of Benjamin Disraeli’s political novel "Coningsby, or The New Generation," whose development reflects the social and political transformations of early Victorian England.
  • D. Raymond
    Raymond is the furry blue sea-dog mascot of Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays, known for his playful antics at the team’s home games.
  • E. Raymond
    Raymond is the middle name of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, the prominent figure behind the anti-communist "McCarthyism" movement in the 1950s.
  • 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_69ad85e083008190b2e1b7085fe500bd completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc462ffdc8190896e9f98f648e2f3 completed March 8, 2026, 6:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b48856b7d481909d9cc32586d61d44 completed March 13, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b489b0de348190a339affb0d59e4b3 completed March 13, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4bc976fc881909a067b73002c5305 completed March 14, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:25 p.m.