Triple

T864232
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Way We Live Now E18664 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Augustus Melmotte
Augustus Melmotte is a wealthy, unscrupulous financier whose rise and fall in Victorian high society drives the satirical plot of Anthony Trollope's novel "The Way We Live Now."
E125258 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: Augustus Melmotte | Statement: [The Way We Live Now, mainCharacter, Augustus Melmotte]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Augustus Melmotte
Context triple: [The Way We Live Now, mainCharacter, Augustus Melmotte]
  • A. Jules Gilliéron
    Jules Gilliéron was a pioneering Swiss-French linguist and dialectologist best known for his foundational work in Romance linguistics and the creation of the Atlas linguistique de la France.
  • B. Monsieur Bonacieux
    Monsieur Bonacieux is a minor but pivotal character in Alexandre Dumas' novel "The Three Musketeers," known as Constance Bonacieux's older, miserly husband and d'Artagnan's landlord in Paris.
  • C. Donatien
    Donatien is the given name of Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, a prominent French general who played a key role in the American Revolutionary War.
  • D. Lucien
    Lucien is a masculine given name of Latin origin, historically associated with figures such as Lucien Bonaparte, the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte.
  • E. Stephen Sauvestre
    Stephen Sauvestre was a French architect best known for designing the architectural embellishments and final aesthetic of the Eiffel Tower.
  • 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: Augustus Melmotte
Triple: [The Way We Live Now, mainCharacter, Augustus Melmotte]
Generated description
Augustus Melmotte is a wealthy, unscrupulous financier whose rise and fall in Victorian high society drives the satirical plot of Anthony Trollope's novel "The Way We Live Now."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Augustus Melmotte
Target entity description: Augustus Melmotte is a wealthy, unscrupulous financier whose rise and fall in Victorian high society drives the satirical plot of Anthony Trollope's novel "The Way We Live Now."
  • A. Jules Gilliéron
    Jules Gilliéron was a pioneering Swiss-French linguist and dialectologist best known for his foundational work in Romance linguistics and the creation of the Atlas linguistique de la France.
  • B. Monsieur Bonacieux
    Monsieur Bonacieux is a minor but pivotal character in Alexandre Dumas' novel "The Three Musketeers," known as Constance Bonacieux's older, miserly husband and d'Artagnan's landlord in Paris.
  • C. Donatien
    Donatien is the given name of Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, a prominent French general who played a key role in the American Revolutionary War.
  • D. Lucien
    Lucien is a masculine given name of Latin origin, historically associated with figures such as Lucien Bonaparte, the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte.
  • E. Stephen Sauvestre
    Stephen Sauvestre was a French architect best known for designing the architectural embellishments and final aesthetic of the Eiffel Tower.
  • 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_69a4938ce8688190a24bdfef82ba7d21 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac6956488190a5644cdd5b55684f completed March 1, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac4bfe2ce081908c358689ec2c58e6 completed March 7, 2026, 4:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac4c83e2688190ad53fcea9669f0ac completed March 7, 2026, 4:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac4cdb02cc8190be89a99d4528168a completed March 7, 2026, 4:05 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.