Triple

T505867
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Moby-Dick E10500 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Queequeg
Queequeg is a tattooed Polynesian harpooner and close companion of Ishmael in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick," known for his bravery, skill at sea, and dignified, enigmatic presence.
E62707 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: Queequeg | Statement: [Moby-Dick, mainCharacter, Queequeg]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Queequeg
Context triple: [Moby-Dick, mainCharacter, Queequeg]
  • A. Ishmael
    Ishmael is a significant figure in the Abrahamic religions, traditionally regarded as Abraham’s first son and an ancestor of various Arab peoples.
  • B. Pap Finn
    Pap Finn is the abusive, alcoholic father of Huck Finn in Mark Twain's novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," representing ignorance, racism, and the darker side of frontier society.
  • C. Nathaniel
    Nathaniel is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "gift of God," historically borne by various notable figures in literature, science, and religion.
  • D. Ralph
    Ralph is the given name of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the influential 19th-century American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and central figure of the Transcendentalist movement.
  • E. Monsieur Ibrahim
    Monsieur Ibrahim is a 2003 French drama film in which Omar Sharif delivers an acclaimed performance as a wise Turkish shopkeeper who befriends a lonely Parisian boy.
  • 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: Queequeg
Triple: [Moby-Dick, mainCharacter, Queequeg]
Generated description
Queequeg is a tattooed Polynesian harpooner and close companion of Ishmael in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick," known for his bravery, skill at sea, and dignified, enigmatic presence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Queequeg
Target entity description: Queequeg is a tattooed Polynesian harpooner and close companion of Ishmael in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick," known for his bravery, skill at sea, and dignified, enigmatic presence.
  • A. Ishmael
    Ishmael is a significant figure in the Abrahamic religions, traditionally regarded as Abraham’s first son and an ancestor of various Arab peoples.
  • B. Pap Finn
    Pap Finn is the abusive, alcoholic father of Huck Finn in Mark Twain's novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," representing ignorance, racism, and the darker side of frontier society.
  • C. Nathaniel
    Nathaniel is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "gift of God," historically borne by various notable figures in literature, science, and religion.
  • D. Ralph
    Ralph is the given name of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the influential 19th-century American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and central figure of the Transcendentalist movement.
  • E. Monsieur Ibrahim
    Monsieur Ibrahim is a 2003 French drama film in which Omar Sharif delivers an acclaimed performance as a wise Turkish shopkeeper who befriends a lonely Parisian boy.
  • 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_69a2e848adf881908e5e04f7af030093 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f14b2acc8190818e8a53eac69c54 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a48a7d47cc8190be1741f95f967f25 completed March 1, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a48ae58a288190b4fa3e7a052477ca completed March 1, 2026, 6:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a48b35abe881909029c02557da0819 completed March 1, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.