Triple

T5600880
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billy Budd E147115 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object John Claggart
John Claggart is the malevolent master-at-arms aboard the warship in Herman Melville’s novella "Billy Budd," whose false accusations and obsessive hostility drive the story’s central tragedy.
E533658 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: John Claggart | Statement: [Billy Budd, mainCharacter, John Claggart]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Claggart
Context triple: [Billy Budd, mainCharacter, John Claggart]
  • A. Wolf Larsen
    Wolf Larsen is the brutal, intellectually formidable sea captain who serves as the central antihero in Jack London’s novel "The Sea-Wolf."
  • B. Colonel Jack
    "Colonel Jack" is an early 18th-century novel by Daniel Defoe that follows the morally complex life and adventures of a London pickpocket who rises through crime, transportation, and eventual reform.
  • C. Captain Nicholls
    Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
  • D. Dr. Livesey
    Dr. Livesey is the cheerful, brave, and level-headed doctor and magistrate who serves as a moral anchor and key ally to Jim Hawkins in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "Treasure Island."
  • E. Captain Vidal
    Captain Vidal is the ruthless and authoritarian Falangist officer who serves as the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth."
  • 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: John Claggart
Triple: [Billy Budd, mainCharacter, John Claggart]
Generated description
John Claggart is the malevolent master-at-arms aboard the warship in Herman Melville’s novella "Billy Budd," whose false accusations and obsessive hostility drive the story’s central tragedy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Claggart
Target entity description: John Claggart is the malevolent master-at-arms aboard the warship in Herman Melville’s novella "Billy Budd," whose false accusations and obsessive hostility drive the story’s central tragedy.
  • A. Wolf Larsen
    Wolf Larsen is the brutal, intellectually formidable sea captain who serves as the central antihero in Jack London’s novel "The Sea-Wolf."
  • B. Colonel Jack
    "Colonel Jack" is an early 18th-century novel by Daniel Defoe that follows the morally complex life and adventures of a London pickpocket who rises through crime, transportation, and eventual reform.
  • C. Captain Nicholls
    Captain Nicholls is a British army officer in Michael Morpurgo’s novel "War Horse," known for his compassion toward the horse Joey and his role early in the story’s depiction of World War I.
  • D. Dr. Livesey
    Dr. Livesey is the cheerful, brave, and level-headed doctor and magistrate who serves as a moral anchor and key ally to Jim Hawkins in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "Treasure Island."
  • E. Captain Vidal
    Captain Vidal is the ruthless and authoritarian Falangist officer who serves as the primary antagonist in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth."
  • 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_69c009043d648190a7af89698ccf1e3e completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c020da519c81908626b243e40db263 completed March 22, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c02873b1dc8190b11a6c069f3e4f7e completed March 22, 2026, 5:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c035f54f6c8190badbfd800012c399 completed March 22, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c036f0edb48190bfa74f7f2c9d9ab1 completed March 22, 2026, 6:37 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:38 p.m.