Triple

T8315982
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Shadow Out of Time E194707 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee
Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee is a fictional early 20th-century professor of political economy at Miskatonic University who becomes the central victim of cosmic mind-exchange and lost-time phenomena in H. P. Lovecraft’s novella "The Shadow Out of Time."
 E765895 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: Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee | Statement: [The Shadow Out of Time, mainCharacter, Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee
Context triple: [The Shadow Out of Time, mainCharacter, Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee]
  • A. Horace W. Peaslee
    Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
  • B. George A. Perkins
    George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
  • C. George C. Perkins
    George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
  • D. George W. Perkins
    George W. Perkins was an American financier and philanthropist known for his influential role in Progressive Era reforms and support of major public health and social causes.
  • E. Charles B. Sedgwick
    Charles B. Sedgwick was a 19th-century American lawyer and U.S. Representative from New York known for his anti-slavery stance and service during the Civil War era.
  • 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: Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee
Triple: [The Shadow Out of Time, mainCharacter, Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee]
Generated description
Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee is a fictional early 20th-century professor of political economy at Miskatonic University who becomes the central victim of cosmic mind-exchange and lost-time phenomena in H. P. Lovecraft’s novella "The Shadow Out of Time."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee
Target entity description: Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee is a fictional early 20th-century professor of political economy at Miskatonic University who becomes the central victim of cosmic mind-exchange and lost-time phenomena in H. P. Lovecraft’s novella "The Shadow Out of Time."
  • A. Horace W. Peaslee
    Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
  • B. George A. Perkins
    George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
  • C. George C. Perkins
    George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
  • D. George W. Perkins
    George W. Perkins was an American financier and philanthropist known for his influential role in Progressive Era reforms and support of major public health and social causes.
  • E. Charles B. Sedgwick
    Charles B. Sedgwick was a 19th-century American lawyer and U.S. Representative from New York known for his anti-slavery stance and service during the Civil War era.
  • 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_69ca82e6e2648190a31eaf6f4f757b2a completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb7f540b2081908ccb1b2ed040c74e completed March 31, 2026, 8:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfb9eaebb88190b127905f58fd5c79 completed April 3, 2026, 1 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfba99abd88190bd3ec4ea1400f23d completed April 3, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfbb86d43c81909090169dfb2f31fb completed April 3, 2026, 1:07 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:55 p.m.