Triple

T8084848
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject This House of Grief E188704 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Robert Farquharson
Robert Farquharson is an Australian man whose trial for the deaths of his three sons in a car crash became the focus of Helen Garner’s true-crime book "This House of Grief."
E734672 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: Robert Farquharson | Statement: [This House of Grief, mainCharacter, Robert Farquharson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Farquharson
Context triple: [This House of Grief, mainCharacter, Robert Farquharson]
  • A. Alex Farquharson
    Alex Farquharson is a British curator and museum director best known for leading major contemporary art institutions in the UK.
  • B. David Farquharson
    David Farquharson was an architect known for designing South Hall.
  • C. Allan Ruthven
    Allan Ruthven was a celebrated Australian rules footballer of the mid-20th century, best known as a Brownlow Medal-winning star for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League.
  • D. Alexander Macmillan
    Alexander Macmillan was a 19th-century British publisher who co-founded the influential Macmillan publishing house, which became one of the leading literary and educational publishers in the English-speaking world.
  • E. Charles MacDonald
    Charles MacDonald was a distinguished American World War II fighter ace and U.S. Army Air Forces officer known for his combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
  • 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: Robert Farquharson
Triple: [This House of Grief, mainCharacter, Robert Farquharson]
Generated description
Robert Farquharson is an Australian man whose trial for the deaths of his three sons in a car crash became the focus of Helen Garner’s true-crime book "This House of Grief."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Farquharson
Target entity description: Robert Farquharson is an Australian man whose trial for the deaths of his three sons in a car crash became the focus of Helen Garner’s true-crime book "This House of Grief."
  • A. Alex Farquharson
    Alex Farquharson is a British curator and museum director best known for leading major contemporary art institutions in the UK.
  • B. David Farquharson
    David Farquharson was an architect known for designing South Hall.
  • C. Allan Ruthven
    Allan Ruthven was a celebrated Australian rules footballer of the mid-20th century, best known as a Brownlow Medal-winning star for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League.
  • D. Alexander Macmillan
    Alexander Macmillan was a 19th-century British publisher who co-founded the influential Macmillan publishing house, which became one of the leading literary and educational publishers in the English-speaking world.
  • E. Charles MacDonald
    Charles MacDonald was a distinguished American World War II fighter ace and U.S. Army Air Forces officer known for his combat achievements in the Pacific Theater.
  • 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_69ca82b662e88190b9323daab8c28a21 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb415f73808190b69db386b447062e completed March 31, 2026, 3:37 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce1c8a492c8190bb17895127bb6a82 completed April 2, 2026, 7:36 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce204dabf08190be024eede40ba47d completed April 2, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce20b0e238819086a88e5db6b3382f completed April 2, 2026, 7:54 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:29 p.m.