Triple

T673977
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Owl and the Nightingale E13038 entity
Predicate survivingManuscript P16604 FINISHED
Object Cotton Caligula A.ix
Cotton Caligula A.ix is a medieval manuscript in the British Library that preserves one of the principal surviving copies of the Middle English poem "The Owl and the Nightingale."
E83737 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Cotton Caligula A.ix | Statement: [The Owl and the Nightingale, survivingManuscript, Cotton Caligula A.ix]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cotton Caligula A.ix
Context triple: [The Owl and the Nightingale, survivingManuscript, Cotton Caligula A.ix]
  • A. Cotton
    Cotton is a soft, natural fiber harvested from the seed pods of cotton plants and widely used in textiles and clothing.
  • B. Macleaya
    Macleaya is a small genus of tall, herbaceous flowering plants known as plume poppies, cultivated for their ornamental foliage and feathery flower plumes.
  • C. Canna
    Canna is a small, historically rich island in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, known for its wildlife, archaeological sites, and ownership by the National Trust for Scotland.
  • D. Calamis
    Calamis was an ancient Greek sculptor renowned for his elegant and refined bronze works in the early Classical period.
  • E. Aloysia
    Aloysia is a feminine given name, historically used in European contexts and closely related to the name Louise.
  • 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: Cotton Caligula A.ix
Triple: [The Owl and the Nightingale, survivingManuscript, Cotton Caligula A.ix]
Generated description
Cotton Caligula A.ix is a medieval manuscript in the British Library that preserves one of the principal surviving copies of the Middle English poem "The Owl and the Nightingale."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cotton Caligula A.ix
Target entity description: Cotton Caligula A.ix is a medieval manuscript in the British Library that preserves one of the principal surviving copies of the Middle English poem "The Owl and the Nightingale."
  • A. Cotton
    Cotton is a soft, natural fiber harvested from the seed pods of cotton plants and widely used in textiles and clothing.
  • B. Macleaya
    Macleaya is a small genus of tall, herbaceous flowering plants known as plume poppies, cultivated for their ornamental foliage and feathery flower plumes.
  • C. Canna
    Canna is a small, historically rich island in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides, known for its wildlife, archaeological sites, and ownership by the National Trust for Scotland.
  • D. Calamis
    Calamis was an ancient Greek sculptor renowned for his elegant and refined bronze works in the early Classical period.
  • E. Aloysia
    Aloysia is a feminine given name, historically used in European contexts and closely related to the name Louise.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: survivingManuscript
Context triple: [The Owl and the Nightingale, survivingManuscript, Cotton Caligula A.ix]
  • A. manuscript chosen
    Indicates that an entity is a written or typed document, often a draft or original version of a text, associated with another entity (such as its author, subject, or publication process).
  • B. survivingStructure
    Indicates that a structure continues to exist or remain intact after a potentially destructive event or over a significant period of time.
  • C. survivedEvent
    Indicates that an entity continued to live or exist after experiencing and not being destroyed or killed by a particular event.
  • D. writtenIn
    Indicates that a work (such as a text, program, or document) is expressed or encoded using a particular language or notation.
  • E. inspiredDocument
    Indicates that one entity (often a work, idea, or person) served as the creative or conceptual inspiration for the creation or content of another document.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69a4933d3bf88190972041cd8cf143b9 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a1b3682c8190a9b9a454480c3446 completed March 1, 2026, 8:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5c39f3e1481908f395cdb19cfd2fc completed March 2, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5c42d4a0481908af4a71b4625c130 completed March 2, 2026, 5:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5ce16df088190850a3b851558eba8 completed March 2, 2026, 5:51 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69a49d1a16c48190af89e3b078a4957e completed March 1, 2026, 8:10 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.