Triple

T5311873
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas de Quincey E119049 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object de Quincey
De Quincey is a surname most famously associated with Thomas de Quincey, the 19th-century English essayist and author of "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater."
E510276 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: de Quincey | Statement: [Thomas de Quincey, familyName, de Quincey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: de Quincey
Context triple: [Thomas de Quincey, familyName, de Quincey]
  • A. Quincey
    Quincey is a surname most prominently associated with James Quincey, the British businessman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company.
  • B. Quincey Morris
    Quincey Morris is a brave and chivalrous American adventurer who becomes one of the key vampire hunters in Bram Stoker’s novel "Dracula."
  • C. Silas Talbot
    Silas Talbot was an American naval officer and privateer who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War and later commanded U.S. naval forces in the early national period.
  • D. Mr. Edward Hyde
    Mr. Edward Hyde is the violent, malevolent alter ego of Dr. Henry Jekyll in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Gothic novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde."
  • E. Dr. Henry Jekyll
    Dr. Henry Jekyll is a respectable Victorian scientist who, in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella, creates a potion that transforms him into his violent alter ego, Edward Hyde, embodying the duality of human nature.
  • 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: de Quincey
Triple: [Thomas de Quincey, familyName, de Quincey]
Generated description
De Quincey is a surname most famously associated with Thomas de Quincey, the 19th-century English essayist and author of "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: de Quincey
Target entity description: De Quincey is a surname most famously associated with Thomas de Quincey, the 19th-century English essayist and author of "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater."
  • A. Quincey
    Quincey is a surname most prominently associated with James Quincey, the British businessman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company.
  • B. Quincey Morris
    Quincey Morris is a brave and chivalrous American adventurer who becomes one of the key vampire hunters in Bram Stoker’s novel "Dracula."
  • C. Silas Talbot
    Silas Talbot was an American naval officer and privateer who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War and later commanded U.S. naval forces in the early national period.
  • D. Mr. Edward Hyde
    Mr. Edward Hyde is the violent, malevolent alter ego of Dr. Henry Jekyll in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Gothic novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde."
  • E. Dr. Henry Jekyll
    Dr. Henry Jekyll is a respectable Victorian scientist who, in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella, creates a potion that transforms him into his violent alter ego, Edward Hyde, embodying the duality of human nature.
  • 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_69bd446b57bc8190a513d2e6c40314f3 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd8535a1ec819094b2c5d3cfc57f56 completed March 20, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf1106ef9c8190811f7b70e784c962 completed March 21, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf11a601c481908a8cb6ea2c04d6df completed March 21, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf127799208190a47580ed7b9ad550 completed March 21, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:54 p.m.