Triple
T896788
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ulysses |
E19362
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableCharacter |
P1481
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Buck Mulligan
Buck Mulligan is a boisterous, irreverent medical student and one of the central figures in the opening episode of James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses."
|
E109282
|
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: Buck Mulligan | Statement: [Ulysses, notableCharacter, Buck Mulligan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Buck Mulligan Context triple: [Ulysses, notableCharacter, Buck Mulligan]
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A.
Leopold Bloom
Leopold Bloom is the introspective Dublin advertising canvasser whose wandering thoughts and experiences over a single day form the core of James Joyce’s modernist novel "Ulysses."
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B.
Stephen Dedalus
Stephen Dedalus is a central fictional character created by James Joyce, portrayed as an intellectually restless young Dubliner whose artistic and philosophical struggles are explored in both "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "Ulysses."
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C.
Desmond MacCarthy
Desmond MacCarthy was a British literary critic and essayist associated with early 20th-century modernist circles and known for his influential journalism and book reviews.
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D.
Phineas Finn
Phineas Finn is a political novel by Anthony Trollope that follows the career and personal struggles of an ambitious young Irishman in Victorian British Parliament.
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E.
Bertram Ramsay
Bertram Ramsay was a British admiral who played a key role in planning and directing major Allied naval operations during World War II, including the Dunkirk evacuation and the D-Day landings.
- 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: Buck Mulligan Triple: [Ulysses, notableCharacter, Buck Mulligan]
Generated description
Buck Mulligan is a boisterous, irreverent medical student and one of the central figures in the opening episode of James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Buck Mulligan Target entity description: Buck Mulligan is a boisterous, irreverent medical student and one of the central figures in the opening episode of James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses."
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A.
Leopold Bloom
Leopold Bloom is the introspective Dublin advertising canvasser whose wandering thoughts and experiences over a single day form the core of James Joyce’s modernist novel "Ulysses."
-
B.
Stephen Dedalus
Stephen Dedalus is a central fictional character created by James Joyce, portrayed as an intellectually restless young Dubliner whose artistic and philosophical struggles are explored in both "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "Ulysses."
-
C.
Desmond MacCarthy
Desmond MacCarthy was a British literary critic and essayist associated with early 20th-century modernist circles and known for his influential journalism and book reviews.
-
D.
Phineas Finn
Phineas Finn is a political novel by Anthony Trollope that follows the career and personal struggles of an ambitious young Irishman in Victorian British Parliament.
-
E.
Bertram Ramsay
Bertram Ramsay was a British admiral who played a key role in planning and directing major Allied naval operations during World War II, including the Dunkirk evacuation and the D-Day landings.
- 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_69a4939d37188190848be3d426ebc9ae |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4ad2550c88190a624eb5627d472ad |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:18 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a7ee02a21c819088e6a137ea306efd |
completed | March 4, 2026, 8:32 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a7eebc724c8190a364782ec8e672e0 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 8:35 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a7ef2ed2c881909dc1d2d6fb39805a |
completed | March 4, 2026, 8:37 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.