Triple

T10391556
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject In the Skin of a Lion E244903 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Clara Dickens
Clara Dickens is a central, enigmatic lover and political activist in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "In the Skin of a Lion," embodying themes of passion, class struggle, and the hidden lives of immigrant workers in early 20th-century Toronto.
E858980 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: Clara Dickens | Statement: [In the Skin of a Lion, featuresCharacter, Clara Dickens]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clara Dickens
Context triple: [In the Skin of a Lion, featuresCharacter, Clara Dickens]
  • A. Mary Dickens
    Mary Dickens was one of the daughters of renowned Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, belonging to his large and closely observed family.
  • B. Dora Annie Dickens
    Dora Annie Dickens was the short-lived infant daughter of Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine.
  • C. Louisa Mathew
    Louisa Mathew was the wife of British Royal Navy officer and admiral James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, a prominent figure in late 18th- and early 19th-century naval history.
  • D. Charles Dickens Jr.
    Charles Dickens Jr. was the eldest son of novelist Charles Dickens, known as a writer, editor, and commentator on his father's life and works.
  • E. Louisa Matilda Jacobs
    Louisa Matilda Jacobs was the daughter of formerly enslaved author and abolitionist Harriet Jacobs, known for assisting her mother’s activism and later working as a teacher and writer.
  • 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: Clara Dickens
Triple: [In the Skin of a Lion, featuresCharacter, Clara Dickens]
Generated description
Clara Dickens is a central, enigmatic lover and political activist in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "In the Skin of a Lion," embodying themes of passion, class struggle, and the hidden lives of immigrant workers in early 20th-century Toronto.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clara Dickens
Target entity description: Clara Dickens is a central, enigmatic lover and political activist in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "In the Skin of a Lion," embodying themes of passion, class struggle, and the hidden lives of immigrant workers in early 20th-century Toronto.
  • A. Mary Dickens
    Mary Dickens was one of the daughters of renowned Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, belonging to his large and closely observed family.
  • B. Dora Annie Dickens
    Dora Annie Dickens was the short-lived infant daughter of Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine.
  • C. Louisa Mathew
    Louisa Mathew was the wife of British Royal Navy officer and admiral James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, a prominent figure in late 18th- and early 19th-century naval history.
  • D. Charles Dickens Jr.
    Charles Dickens Jr. was the eldest son of novelist Charles Dickens, known as a writer, editor, and commentator on his father's life and works.
  • E. Louisa Matilda Jacobs
    Louisa Matilda Jacobs was the daughter of formerly enslaved author and abolitionist Harriet Jacobs, known for assisting her mother’s activism and later working as a teacher and writer.
  • 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_69d381b5116081908d85227bab6d3c0c completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4e9b5b43081908641a5abfb08dc2b completed April 7, 2026, 11:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d795b9974c819087340adc3622279e completed April 9, 2026, 12:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d7985e7fc081909fd1ba1dc6f7338c completed April 9, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d799917ab881909a947ad8059652c6 completed April 9, 2026, 12:20 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:06 p.m.