Triple

T4423623
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sapphira and the Slave Girl E95158 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert
Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert is the domineering, morally complex white mistress of a Virginia plantation at the center of Willa Cather’s novel "Sapphira and the Slave Girl."
E437393 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: Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert | Statement: [Sapphira and the Slave Girl, mainCharacter, Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert
Context triple: [Sapphira and the Slave Girl, mainCharacter, Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert]
  • A. Cornelia Connelly
    Cornelia Connelly was a 19th-century American-born Roman Catholic nun and educator who founded the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, a religious congregation dedicated to the education and spiritual formation of young people.
  • B. Olive Chancellor
    Olive Chancellor is a passionate, reform-minded Boston feminist and social reformer who serves as the central figure in Henry James’s novel *The Bostonians*.
  • C. Cordelia Scaife May
    Cordelia Scaife May was an American heiress and philanthropist known for her substantial Mellon family inheritance and for funding influential anti-immigration and population control organizations.
  • D. Elizabeth Cabot
    Elizabeth Cabot is the namesake of the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Directorship at the Harvard Art Museums, reflecting her significant association with and support for the institution.
  • E. Cornelia Tappen
    Cornelia Tappen was the wife of George Clinton, a prominent early American politician who served as both Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States.
  • 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: Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert
Triple: [Sapphira and the Slave Girl, mainCharacter, Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert]
Generated description
Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert is the domineering, morally complex white mistress of a Virginia plantation at the center of Willa Cather’s novel "Sapphira and the Slave Girl."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert
Target entity description: Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert is the domineering, morally complex white mistress of a Virginia plantation at the center of Willa Cather’s novel "Sapphira and the Slave Girl."
  • A. Cornelia Connelly
    Cornelia Connelly was a 19th-century American-born Roman Catholic nun and educator who founded the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, a religious congregation dedicated to the education and spiritual formation of young people.
  • B. Olive Chancellor
    Olive Chancellor is a passionate, reform-minded Boston feminist and social reformer who serves as the central figure in Henry James’s novel *The Bostonians*.
  • C. Cordelia Scaife May
    Cordelia Scaife May was an American heiress and philanthropist known for her substantial Mellon family inheritance and for funding influential anti-immigration and population control organizations.
  • D. Elizabeth Cabot
    Elizabeth Cabot is the namesake of the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Directorship at the Harvard Art Museums, reflecting her significant association with and support for the institution.
  • E. Cornelia Tappen
    Cornelia Tappen was the wife of George Clinton, a prominent early American politician who served as both Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States.
  • 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_69b3453a36908190b95a79a297ca083c completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3554b36a48190a475ac5474bed132 completed March 13, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5f62bbee48190bae8fc7b9cc29086 completed March 14, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5f6b132a88190950cde007375965a completed March 15, 2026, midnight
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5f7794d7081909eb494c2119eaee7 completed March 15, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:30 p.m.