Triple

T10365228
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial) E244233 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object William Dobbin
William Dobbin is a loyal, self-effacing army officer in William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel "Vanity Fair," known for his unrequited love for Amelia Sedley and his moral contrast to the book’s more cynical characters.
E857370 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 Dobbin | Statement: [Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial), mainCharacter, William Dobbin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Dobbin
Context triple: [Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial), mainCharacter, William Dobbin]
  • A. Red Holloway
    Red Holloway was an American jazz saxophonist known for his soulful, blues-infused style and collaborations with many leading organists and bandleaders.
  • B. Dr. Peter Benton
    Dr. Peter Benton is a driven and highly skilled trauma surgeon on the television series "ER," known for his intense personality, ambition, and complex personal and professional relationships.
  • C. George Denbrough
    George Denbrough is a young boy from Stephen King's horror novel "It," whose tragic death at the hands of Pennywise the Clown drives much of the story's emotional and narrative conflict.
  • D. Dr. Louis Judd
    Dr. Louis Judd is a psychiatrist character in the 1942 horror film "Cat People," known for his skeptical, analytical approach to the film’s supernatural events.
  • E. Roderick Kinney
    Roderick Kinney is an individual notable enough to be specifically identified as a bearer of the Kinney surname.
  • 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 Dobbin
Triple: [Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial), mainCharacter, William Dobbin]
Generated description
William Dobbin is a loyal, self-effacing army officer in William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel "Vanity Fair," known for his unrequited love for Amelia Sedley and his moral contrast to the book’s more cynical characters.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Dobbin
Target entity description: William Dobbin is a loyal, self-effacing army officer in William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel "Vanity Fair," known for his unrequited love for Amelia Sedley and his moral contrast to the book’s more cynical characters.
  • A. Red Holloway
    Red Holloway was an American jazz saxophonist known for his soulful, blues-infused style and collaborations with many leading organists and bandleaders.
  • B. Dr. Peter Benton
    Dr. Peter Benton is a driven and highly skilled trauma surgeon on the television series "ER," known for his intense personality, ambition, and complex personal and professional relationships.
  • C. George Denbrough
    George Denbrough is a young boy from Stephen King's horror novel "It," whose tragic death at the hands of Pennywise the Clown drives much of the story's emotional and narrative conflict.
  • D. Dr. Louis Judd
    Dr. Louis Judd is a psychiatrist character in the 1942 horror film "Cat People," known for his skeptical, analytical approach to the film’s supernatural events.
  • E. Roderick Kinney
    Roderick Kinney is an individual notable enough to be specifically identified as a bearer of the Kinney surname.
  • 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_69d381b3e328819094b23b8edcd29b5a completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4e964a53c8190b748e80850e96656 completed April 7, 2026, 11:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d750c8c7588190a31bac5b774155fe completed April 9, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d751ab890c8190b1549619049dab91 completed April 9, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d7619e97588190a1443f9438c6efc0 completed April 9, 2026, 8:21 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, noon