Triple

T8084933
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Spare Room E188706 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Nic
Nic is the central protagonist of the novel "The Spare Room," around whom the story’s emotional and narrative developments revolve.
 E711231 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: Nic | Statement: [The Spare Room, mainCharacter, Nic]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nic
Context triple: [The Spare Room, mainCharacter, Nic]
  • A. Nic
    Nic is an entity characterized in opposition to "Mc," suggesting it embodies contrasting qualities, roles, or attributes within their shared context.
  • B. Nic
    Nic is one of the two lesbian mothers in the film "The Kids Are All Right," portrayed as a responsible, controlling physician whose family life is disrupted when her children seek out their sperm-donor father.
  • C. Nic
    Nic is a short given name or nickname commonly used for people named Nicholas, Nicola, or similar names.
  • D. Nick
    Nick is one of the central characters in Edward Albee’s play "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", a young biology professor whose tense interactions with an older couple expose themes of ambition, disillusionment, and marital conflict.
  • E. Nick
    Nick is the given name of Nick Holonyak Jr., the American engineer and inventor widely known for creating the first practical visible-spectrum LED.
  • 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: Nic
Triple: [The Spare Room, mainCharacter, Nic]
Generated description
Nic is the central protagonist of the novel "The Spare Room," around whom the story’s emotional and narrative developments revolve.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nic
Target entity description: Nic is the central protagonist of the novel "The Spare Room," around whom the story’s emotional and narrative developments revolve.
  • A. Nic
    Nic is an entity characterized in opposition to "Mc," suggesting it embodies contrasting qualities, roles, or attributes within their shared context.
  • B. Nic
    Nic is one of the two lesbian mothers in the film "The Kids Are All Right," portrayed as a responsible, controlling physician whose family life is disrupted when her children seek out their sperm-donor father.
  • C. Nic
    Nic is a short given name or nickname commonly used for people named Nicholas, Nicola, or similar names.
  • D. Nick
    Nick is one of the central characters in Edward Albee’s play "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", a young biology professor whose tense interactions with an older couple expose themes of ambition, disillusionment, and marital conflict.
  • E. Nick
    Nick is the given name of Nick Holonyak Jr., the American engineer and inventor widely known for creating the first practical visible-spectrum LED.
  • 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_69cc6402e41c819095442775938d4282 completed April 1, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc68634dc88190bc9b9e0598929d4d completed April 1, 2026, 12:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc694d861c8190b504352c1fad2c36 completed April 1, 2026, 12:39 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:29 p.m.