Triple

T4386613
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Lost Lady E99258 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Captain Daniel Forrester
Captain Daniel Forrester is a prominent fictional figure in Willa Cather’s novel "A Lost Lady," portrayed as a once-powerful, idealized railroad pioneer whose decline mirrors the fading of the American frontier aristocracy.
E436614 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: Captain Daniel Forrester | Statement: [A Lost Lady, mainCharacter, Captain Daniel Forrester]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Daniel Forrester
Context triple: [A Lost Lady, mainCharacter, Captain Daniel Forrester]
  • A. Captain Richard Pearson
    Captain Richard Pearson was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for his role in the 1779 Battle of Flamborough Head against John Paul Jones during the American Revolutionary War.
  • B. Captain Keith Mallory
    Captain Keith Mallory is the resourceful New Zealand mountaineer and Allied commando leader who spearheads the perilous mission to destroy the German guns in Alistair MacLean’s World War II novel "The Guns of Navarone."
  • C. Captain William Renton
    Captain William Renton was a 19th-century American lumberman and entrepreneur in the Pacific Northwest whose influence on the regional timber industry led to the city of Renton, Washington being named in his honor.
  • D. Captain Ed Mercer
    Captain Ed Mercer is the central human protagonist and commanding officer of the exploratory starship USS Orville in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
  • E. Captain Nicholls
    Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
  • 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: Captain Daniel Forrester
Triple: [A Lost Lady, mainCharacter, Captain Daniel Forrester]
Generated description
Captain Daniel Forrester is a prominent fictional figure in Willa Cather’s novel "A Lost Lady," portrayed as a once-powerful, idealized railroad pioneer whose decline mirrors the fading of the American frontier aristocracy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Daniel Forrester
Target entity description: Captain Daniel Forrester is a prominent fictional figure in Willa Cather’s novel "A Lost Lady," portrayed as a once-powerful, idealized railroad pioneer whose decline mirrors the fading of the American frontier aristocracy.
  • A. Captain Richard Pearson
    Captain Richard Pearson was an 18th-century British naval officer best known for his role in the 1779 Battle of Flamborough Head against John Paul Jones during the American Revolutionary War.
  • B. Captain Keith Mallory
    Captain Keith Mallory is the resourceful New Zealand mountaineer and Allied commando leader who spearheads the perilous mission to destroy the German guns in Alistair MacLean’s World War II novel "The Guns of Navarone."
  • C. Captain William Renton
    Captain William Renton was a 19th-century American lumberman and entrepreneur in the Pacific Northwest whose influence on the regional timber industry led to the city of Renton, Washington being named in his honor.
  • D. Captain Ed Mercer
    Captain Ed Mercer is the central human protagonist and commanding officer of the exploratory starship USS Orville in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
  • E. Captain Nicholls
    Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
  • 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_69b3454f739481909ff6c28331f0c0b9 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b352669f608190b3aa7030d8073e04 completed March 12, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5e526e35c8190838c59e402da3c89 completed March 14, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5eeaf35348190a1611f5b04baed1f completed March 14, 2026, 11:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5ef5c7e0c819080b0e8914dcd6568 completed March 14, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:19 p.m.