Triple

T4386614
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Lost Lady E99258 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Niel Herbert
Niel Herbert is a central fictional character in Willa Cather’s novel "A Lost Lady," whose coming-of-age perspective frames the story’s themes of idealism, disillusionment, and social change in a small Western town.
E439468 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: Niel Herbert | Statement: [A Lost Lady, mainCharacter, Niel Herbert]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Niel Herbert
Context triple: [A Lost Lady, mainCharacter, Niel Herbert]
  • A. Giles Nuttgens
    Giles Nuttgens is a British cinematographer known for his visually distinctive work on independent films and major features, often collaborating with directors like Deepa Mehta and David Mackenzie.
  • B. Thomas Nevile
    Thomas Nevile was a prominent English clergyman and academic of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, best known for his role as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and for overseeing major architectural developments there.
  • C. Arthur Lyttelton
    Arthur Lyttelton was a 19th-century English Anglican clergyman and academic who became the first Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge.
  • D. Arthur Chatto
    Arthur Chatto is a British personal trainer and former Royal Marine reservist who is the grandson of Princess Margaret and a great-nephew of Queen Elizabeth II.
  • E. John Windsor
    John Windsor was the engineer responsible for designing Dublin’s iconic cast-iron Ha'penny Bridge over the River Liffey.
  • 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: Niel Herbert
Triple: [A Lost Lady, mainCharacter, Niel Herbert]
Generated description
Niel Herbert is a central fictional character in Willa Cather’s novel "A Lost Lady," whose coming-of-age perspective frames the story’s themes of idealism, disillusionment, and social change in a small Western town.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Niel Herbert
Target entity description: Niel Herbert is a central fictional character in Willa Cather’s novel "A Lost Lady," whose coming-of-age perspective frames the story’s themes of idealism, disillusionment, and social change in a small Western town.
  • A. Giles Nuttgens
    Giles Nuttgens is a British cinematographer known for his visually distinctive work on independent films and major features, often collaborating with directors like Deepa Mehta and David Mackenzie.
  • B. Thomas Nevile
    Thomas Nevile was a prominent English clergyman and academic of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, best known for his role as Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and for overseeing major architectural developments there.
  • C. Arthur Lyttelton
    Arthur Lyttelton was a 19th-century English Anglican clergyman and academic who became the first Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge.
  • D. Arthur Chatto
    Arthur Chatto is a British personal trainer and former Royal Marine reservist who is the grandson of Princess Margaret and a great-nephew of Queen Elizabeth II.
  • E. John Windsor
    John Windsor was the engineer responsible for designing Dublin’s iconic cast-iron Ha'penny Bridge over the River Liffey.
  • 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_69b6135919d08190abab3858ff01bf11 completed March 15, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b614371b2081909fabb88f2993dd29 completed March 15, 2026, 2:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b6155a57c08190bbf2e88f95cede16 completed March 15, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:19 p.m.