Triple

T549458
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Scarlet Letter E11805 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Hester Prynne
Hester Prynne is the resilient, ostracized heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, known for bearing an illegitimate child and defiantly wearing the scarlet letter “A” as a symbol of both shame and strength in Puritan New England.
E68903 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: Hester Prynne | Statement: [The Scarlet Letter, mainCharacter, Hester Prynne]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hester Prynne
Context triple: [The Scarlet Letter, mainCharacter, Hester Prynne]
  • A. Hester Pitt
    Hester Pitt was a daughter of British statesman William Pitt the Elder, belonging to a prominent 18th-century political family.
  • B. Sarah Good
    Sarah Good was one of the first women accused and executed for witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
  • C. Elizabeth Proctor
    Elizabeth Proctor is a central character in Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible," portrayed as a morally upright but emotionally reserved wife whose integrity and strained marriage to John Proctor are tested amid the Salem witch trials.
  • D. Pearl
    "Pearl" is a Middle English alliterative poem, often attributed to the anonymous "Pearl Poet," renowned for its intricate structure and spiritual meditation on loss and salvation.
  • E. Abigail Williams
    Abigail Williams is a central, manipulative accuser in Arthur Miller’s play *The Crucible*, whose lies help fuel the Salem witch trials.
  • 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: Hester Prynne
Triple: [The Scarlet Letter, mainCharacter, Hester Prynne]
Generated description
Hester Prynne is the resilient, ostracized heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, known for bearing an illegitimate child and defiantly wearing the scarlet letter “A” as a symbol of both shame and strength in Puritan New England.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hester Prynne
Target entity description: Hester Prynne is the resilient, ostracized heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, known for bearing an illegitimate child and defiantly wearing the scarlet letter “A” as a symbol of both shame and strength in Puritan New England.
  • A. Hester Pitt
    Hester Pitt was a daughter of British statesman William Pitt the Elder, belonging to a prominent 18th-century political family.
  • B. Sarah Good
    Sarah Good was one of the first women accused and executed for witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
  • C. Elizabeth Proctor
    Elizabeth Proctor is a central character in Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible," portrayed as a morally upright but emotionally reserved wife whose integrity and strained marriage to John Proctor are tested amid the Salem witch trials.
  • D. Pearl
    "Pearl" is a Middle English alliterative poem, often attributed to the anonymous "Pearl Poet," renowned for its intricate structure and spiritual meditation on loss and salvation.
  • E. Abigail Williams
    Abigail Williams is a central, manipulative accuser in Arthur Miller’s play *The Crucible*, whose lies help fuel the Salem witch trials.
  • 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_69a4932941d08190815efd422f0b4ca7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49901e4e481909a5ed93c21ab37bd completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4e0301ea08190ada81259b7c862f6 completed March 2, 2026, 12:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4e09ce7a48190b29e364be6317081 completed March 2, 2026, 12:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4e10dc17881908399e10b705381cd completed March 2, 2026, 12:59 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.