Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Scoop E150424 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Mr. Salter
Mr. Salter is a minor but memorable character in Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Scoop," contributing to the book’s comic portrayal of the British press.
E598955 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: Mr. Salter | Statement: [Scoop, character, Mr. Salter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr. Salter
Context triple: [Scoop, character, Mr. Salter]
  • A. Monty Bodkin
    Monty Bodkin is a recurring P. G. Wodehouse character, a wealthy but often luckless young man entangled in romantic and employment mishaps across several comic novels.
  • B. Philip Vanderpole
    Philip Vanderpole is a fictional character portrayed by child actor Freddie Bartholomew, likely in a classic early 20th-century film or literary adaptation.
  • C. Mr. Fletcher
    Mr. Fletcher is the video store owner in the comedy film "Be Kind Rewind," around whose struggling VHS rental shop the movie’s events and homemade remakes revolve.
  • D. Mr. Tappitt
    Mr. Tappitt is a fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Rachel Ray," serving as one of the townspeople involved in the social and romantic intrigues of the story.
  • E. Mr. Harling
    Mr. Harling is a prosperous, energetic merchant and the head of the Harling family in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known for his strict yet fundamentally kind-hearted 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: Mr. Salter
Triple: [Scoop, character, Mr. Salter]
Generated description
Mr. Salter is a minor but memorable character in Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Scoop," contributing to the book’s comic portrayal of the British press.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr. Salter
Target entity description: Mr. Salter is a minor but memorable character in Evelyn Waugh’s satirical novel "Scoop," contributing to the book’s comic portrayal of the British press.
  • A. Monty Bodkin
    Monty Bodkin is a recurring P. G. Wodehouse character, a wealthy but often luckless young man entangled in romantic and employment mishaps across several comic novels.
  • B. Philip Vanderpole
    Philip Vanderpole is a fictional character portrayed by child actor Freddie Bartholomew, likely in a classic early 20th-century film or literary adaptation.
  • C. Mr. Fletcher
    Mr. Fletcher is the video store owner in the comedy film "Be Kind Rewind," around whose struggling VHS rental shop the movie’s events and homemade remakes revolve.
  • D. Mr. Tappitt
    Mr. Tappitt is a fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Rachel Ray," serving as one of the townspeople involved in the social and romantic intrigues of the story.
  • E. Mr. Harling
    Mr. Harling is a prosperous, energetic merchant and the head of the Harling family in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known for his strict yet fundamentally kind-hearted 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_69c687f0ceb08190bf40807bfc605fa5 completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6afcc1c9c819087fcde19a5d49fd2 completed March 27, 2026, 4:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6cbf71874819080cc89b6740b1567 completed March 27, 2026, 6:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6cd0bb0e48190ae51fde4b4631f65 completed March 27, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6cd90b9208190b4c5bf44db073314 completed March 27, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:59 p.m.