Triple

T8326201
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject News from Nowhere E194959 entity
Predicate protagonist P268 FINISHED
Object William Guest
William Guest is the time-traveling narrator of William Morris’s utopian novel "News from Nowhere," through whose eyes readers explore a future socialist society.
 E731750 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: William Guest | Statement: [News from Nowhere, protagonist, William Guest]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Guest
Context triple: [News from Nowhere, protagonist, William Guest]
  • A. William Guest
    William Guest was an American R&B singer best known as a longtime member of the legendary soul group Gladys Knight & the Pips.
  • B. George Duff
    George Duff was a British naval officer after whom the Duff Islands in the Pacific Ocean were named.
  • C. George Grant Elmslie
    George Grant Elmslie was an influential American architect associated with the Prairie School movement, known for his richly ornamented designs and collaborations with Louis Sullivan.
  • D. William Leishman
    William Leishman was a British physician and pathologist best known for his work on tropical diseases, including the identification of the parasite causing leishmaniasis.
  • E. Thomas Farnolls Pritchard
    Thomas Farnolls Pritchard was an 18th-century English architect and engineer best known for conceiving the design of the world’s first major cast-iron bridge at Ironbridge Gorge.
  • 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: William Guest
Triple: [News from Nowhere, protagonist, William Guest]
Generated description
William Guest is the time-traveling narrator of William Morris’s utopian novel "News from Nowhere," through whose eyes readers explore a future socialist society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Guest
Target entity description: William Guest is the time-traveling narrator of William Morris’s utopian novel "News from Nowhere," through whose eyes readers explore a future socialist society.
  • A. William Guest
    William Guest was an American R&B singer best known as a longtime member of the legendary soul group Gladys Knight & the Pips.
  • B. George Duff
    George Duff was a British naval officer after whom the Duff Islands in the Pacific Ocean were named.
  • C. George Grant Elmslie
    George Grant Elmslie was an influential American architect associated with the Prairie School movement, known for his richly ornamented designs and collaborations with Louis Sullivan.
  • D. William Leishman
    William Leishman was a British physician and pathologist best known for his work on tropical diseases, including the identification of the parasite causing leishmaniasis.
  • E. Thomas Farnolls Pritchard
    Thomas Farnolls Pritchard was an 18th-century English architect and engineer best known for conceiving the design of the world’s first major cast-iron bridge at Ironbridge Gorge.
  • 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_69ca82e7a8a88190a32bb5cc0feb012d completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb7f7fba688190b696593dfb2cde5d completed March 31, 2026, 8:02 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce0278b9a88190a57a6b1b31c39ee8 completed April 2, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce064211e48190b558d4355be659ba completed April 2, 2026, 6:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce07a390048190ac26a7e3d3d561e0 completed April 2, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:56 p.m.