Triple

T10184381
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Finnegans Wake E236869 entity
Predicate centralCharacters P39597 FINISHED
Object Shaun
Shaun is one of the principal, allegorical figures in James Joyce’s experimental novel *Finnegans Wake*, often interpreted as a rivalrous brother and foil to Shem within the book’s dreamlike family drama.
E847703 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: Shaun | Statement: [Finnegans Wake, centralCharacters, Shaun]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shaun
Context triple: [Finnegans Wake, centralCharacters, Shaun]
  • A. Shaun
    Shaun is a given name associated with the English actor Sean Bean, known for his roles in film and television such as "The Lord of the Rings" and "Game of Thrones."
  • B. Shaun
    Shaun is the hapless yet determined protagonist of the British zombie comedy film "Shaun of the Dead," known for his slacker lifestyle and reluctant heroism during a zombie outbreak.
  • C. Shawn
    Shawn is a given name, typically a variant of the name John or Sean, used primarily in English-speaking countries.
  • D. Shaun Pye
    Shaun Pye is a British comedian, writer, and producer known for his work on television comedies including co-creating the series "There She Goes."
  • E. Trevor
    Trevor is a masculine given name of English origin commonly used in the UK and other English-speaking countries.
  • 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: Shaun
Triple: [Finnegans Wake, centralCharacters, Shaun]
Generated description
Shaun is one of the principal, allegorical figures in James Joyce’s experimental novel *Finnegans Wake*, often interpreted as a rivalrous brother and foil to Shem within the book’s dreamlike family drama.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shaun
Target entity description: Shaun is one of the principal, allegorical figures in James Joyce’s experimental novel *Finnegans Wake*, often interpreted as a rivalrous brother and foil to Shem within the book’s dreamlike family drama.
  • A. Shaun
    Shaun is a given name associated with the English actor Sean Bean, known for his roles in film and television such as "The Lord of the Rings" and "Game of Thrones."
  • B. Shaun
    Shaun is the hapless yet determined protagonist of the British zombie comedy film "Shaun of the Dead," known for his slacker lifestyle and reluctant heroism during a zombie outbreak.
  • C. Shawn
    Shawn is a given name, typically a variant of the name John or Sean, used primarily in English-speaking countries.
  • D. Shaun Pye
    Shaun Pye is a British comedian, writer, and producer known for his work on television comedies including co-creating the series "There She Goes."
  • E. Trevor
    Trevor is a village in Wrexham County Borough, Wales, known for its proximity to the UNESCO-listed Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on the Llangollen Canal.
  • 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_69ca84d7260c8190bfbec36762943f37 completed March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cded3566f881909e0d1366f501d554 completed April 2, 2026, 4:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d317a4d99c8190941322d3de2998f5 completed April 6, 2026, 2:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d31bafe69881909c7cc6180354d84a completed April 6, 2026, 2:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d31c106c90819084c47bc0b70ddbd3 completed April 6, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:12 p.m.