Triple
T549474
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Scarlet Letter |
E11805
|
entity |
| Predicate | antagonist |
P4675
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Roger Chillingworth |
E69050
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Roger Chillingworth | Statement: [The Scarlet Letter, antagonist, Roger Chillingworth]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roger Chillingworth Context triple: [The Scarlet Letter, antagonist, Roger Chillingworth]
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A.
Roger Chillingworth
chosen
Roger Chillingworth is the vengeful, estranged husband of Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel "The Scarlet Letter," who obsessively seeks to torment her secret lover.
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B.
Nathaniel Hathorne Sr.
Nathaniel Hathorne Sr. was a New England sea captain and the father of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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C.
Arthur Dimmesdale
Arthur Dimmesdale is the tormented young Puritan minister in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s *The Scarlet Letter*, whose hidden guilt over an adulterous affair drives much of the novel’s psychological and moral drama.
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D.
Thomas Putnam
Thomas Putnam was a prominent and influential accuser during the Salem witch trials, known for aggressively pursuing witchcraft charges against many of his neighbors.
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E.
Samuel Parris
Samuel Parris was the Puritan minister of Salem Village whose accusations and sermons helped ignite and intensify the Salem witch trials of 1692.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a4e9b92f1c8190bdcf5ae3a07edb3a |
completed | March 2, 2026, 1:36 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.