Triple
T4610250
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Blue Hotel |
E100535
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasCharacter |
P2308
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
the Easterner
The Easterner is a quiet, observant traveling salesman in Stephen Crane’s short story “The Blue Hotel,” whose hesitant moral stance and delayed honesty highlight themes of guilt and responsibility.
|
E456248
|
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: the Easterner | Statement: [The Blue Hotel, hasCharacter, the Easterner]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: the Easterner Context triple: [The Blue Hotel, hasCharacter, the Easterner]
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A.
The Westerner
The Westerner is a 1940 American Western film starring Gary Cooper as a drifter who becomes entangled in a conflict between a powerful cattle baron and local homesteaders.
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B.
The Young Man
The Young Man is a central, unnamed character often portrayed as a youthful, impressionable figure whose experiences and development drive the narrative’s exploration of identity and coming of age.
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C.
The Corner Man
The Corner Man is a work associated with the historical intelligence unit known as the Cairo Gang, likely depicting or inspired by their covert operations during the Irish War of Independence.
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D.
The Vidette
The Vidette is the student-run newspaper serving the Illinois State University community with campus news, features, and opinion content.
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E.
The Eyeopener
The Eyeopener is an independent student-run newspaper serving the Toronto Metropolitan University community with campus news, commentary, and features.
- 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: the Easterner Triple: [The Blue Hotel, hasCharacter, the Easterner]
Generated description
The Easterner is a quiet, observant traveling salesman in Stephen Crane’s short story “The Blue Hotel,” whose hesitant moral stance and delayed honesty highlight themes of guilt and responsibility.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: the Easterner Target entity description: The Easterner is a quiet, observant traveling salesman in Stephen Crane’s short story “The Blue Hotel,” whose hesitant moral stance and delayed honesty highlight themes of guilt and responsibility.
-
A.
The Westerner
The Westerner is a 1940 American Western film starring Gary Cooper as a drifter who becomes entangled in a conflict between a powerful cattle baron and local homesteaders.
-
B.
The Young Man
The Young Man is a central, unnamed character often portrayed as a youthful, impressionable figure whose experiences and development drive the narrative’s exploration of identity and coming of age.
-
C.
The Corner Man
The Corner Man is a work associated with the historical intelligence unit known as the Cairo Gang, likely depicting or inspired by their covert operations during the Irish War of Independence.
-
D.
The Vidette
The Vidette is the student-run newspaper serving the Illinois State University community with campus news, features, and opinion content.
-
E.
The Eyeopener
The Eyeopener is an independent student-run newspaper serving the Toronto Metropolitan University community with campus news, commentary, and features.
- 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_69bd43cce1e08190a07d53af6a9b6c24 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd59be3300819095e548b488c8f75e |
completed | March 20, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bdfa7e918881908743818e0645da46 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 1:55 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69bdfb6fa3fc8190b79b641025710eb1 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 1:59 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69bdfbeddd7c8190955bd3363fec4ca1 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 2:01 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:12 p.m.