Triple

T4423625
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sapphira and the Slave Girl E95158 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Henry Colbert
Henry Colbert is a central fictional figure in Willa Cather’s novel "Sapphira and the Slave Girl," depicted as a morally conflicted miller in antebellum Virginia.
E437394 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: Henry Colbert | Statement: [Sapphira and the Slave Girl, mainCharacter, Henry Colbert]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry Colbert
Context triple: [Sapphira and the Slave Girl, mainCharacter, Henry Colbert]
  • A. Samuel Edward Widdrington
    Samuel Edward Widdrington was a 19th-century British naval officer and writer on Spain whose name was given to the conifer genus Widdringtonia.
  • B. Robert Smythson
    Robert Smythson was a prominent late-16th-century English architect best known for designing grand Elizabethan country houses.
  • C. George Vavasor
    George Vavasor is an ambitious, morally conflicted Victorian gentleman whose political aspirations and turbulent relationships drive much of the drama in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Can You Forgive Her?".
  • D. Caspar Goodwood
    Caspar Goodwood is a determined and passionate American suitor in Henry James’s novel "The Portrait of a Lady," known for his intense, unwavering love for the protagonist Isabel Archer.
  • E. Christopher Wren
    Christopher Wren was a renowned 17th-century English architect and polymath best known for designing St Paul’s Cathedral and reshaping the cityscape of London after the Great Fire.
  • 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: Henry Colbert
Triple: [Sapphira and the Slave Girl, mainCharacter, Henry Colbert]
Generated description
Henry Colbert is a central fictional figure in Willa Cather’s novel "Sapphira and the Slave Girl," depicted as a morally conflicted miller in antebellum Virginia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry Colbert
Target entity description: Henry Colbert is a central fictional figure in Willa Cather’s novel "Sapphira and the Slave Girl," depicted as a morally conflicted miller in antebellum Virginia.
  • A. Samuel Edward Widdrington
    Samuel Edward Widdrington was a 19th-century British naval officer and writer on Spain whose name was given to the conifer genus Widdringtonia.
  • B. Robert Smythson
    Robert Smythson was a prominent late-16th-century English architect best known for designing grand Elizabethan country houses.
  • C. George Vavasor
    George Vavasor is an ambitious, morally conflicted Victorian gentleman whose political aspirations and turbulent relationships drive much of the drama in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Can You Forgive Her?".
  • D. Caspar Goodwood
    Caspar Goodwood is a determined and passionate American suitor in Henry James’s novel "The Portrait of a Lady," known for his intense, unwavering love for the protagonist Isabel Archer.
  • E. Christopher Wren
    Christopher Wren was a renowned 17th-century English architect and polymath best known for designing St Paul’s Cathedral and reshaping the cityscape of London after the Great Fire.
  • 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.