Triple

T11699153
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Caxtons E278074 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Pisistratus Caxton
Pisistratus Caxton is the thoughtful, observant narrator and central figure of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Victorian novel "The Caxtons," through whose eyes the family’s story is told.
E939719 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: Pisistratus Caxton | Statement: [The Caxtons, mainCharacter, Pisistratus Caxton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pisistratus Caxton
Context triple: [The Caxtons, mainCharacter, Pisistratus Caxton]
  • A. William Caxton
    William Caxton was a 15th-century English merchant, diplomat, and printer best known for introducing the printing press to England and producing some of the first books printed in English.
  • B. Henry Clemm
    Henry Clemm was a 19th-century American man known primarily as a member of the extended Clemm-Poe family connected to writer Edgar Allan Poe.
  • C. John Rainoldes
    John Rainoldes (more commonly spelled John Rainolds) was a prominent English Puritan theologian and scholar of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, best known for his role in initiating the King James Bible translation.
  • D. Johannes Gutenberg
    Johannes Gutenberg was a 15th-century German inventor and printer credited with introducing movable-type printing to Europe, revolutionizing the spread of information.
  • E. Richard Grafton
    Richard Grafton was a 16th-century English printer and publisher best known for producing early English Bibles and serving as the king’s printer under Edward VI.
  • 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: Pisistratus Caxton
Triple: [The Caxtons, mainCharacter, Pisistratus Caxton]
Generated description
Pisistratus Caxton is the thoughtful, observant narrator and central figure of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Victorian novel "The Caxtons," through whose eyes the family’s story is told.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pisistratus Caxton
Target entity description: Pisistratus Caxton is the thoughtful, observant narrator and central figure of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Victorian novel "The Caxtons," through whose eyes the family’s story is told.
  • A. William Caxton
    William Caxton was a 15th-century English merchant, diplomat, and printer best known for introducing the printing press to England and producing some of the first books printed in English.
  • B. Henry Clemm
    Henry Clemm was a 19th-century American man known primarily as a member of the extended Clemm-Poe family connected to writer Edgar Allan Poe.
  • C. John Rainoldes
    John Rainoldes (more commonly spelled John Rainolds) was a prominent English Puritan theologian and scholar of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, best known for his role in initiating the King James Bible translation.
  • D. Johannes Gutenberg
    Johannes Gutenberg was a 15th-century German inventor and printer credited with introducing movable-type printing to Europe, revolutionizing the spread of information.
  • E. Richard Grafton
    Richard Grafton was a 16th-century English printer and publisher best known for producing early English Bibles and serving as the king’s printer under Edward VI.
  • 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_69d6aafe02d881909900d54ad7d4af84 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a47df68c81908a91919a69b4880d completed April 10, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ef147e2e10819085eaed83fd955b6b completed April 27, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ef3553a1748190b554463bcea8bd1d completed April 27, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ef51fe3824819099f440426d3e6888 completed April 27, 2026, 12:09 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:40 p.m.