Triple

T11776439
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject To the Lighthouse E280030 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object William Bankes
William Bankes is a reflective, somewhat austere botanist and family friend in Virginia Woolf’s novel "To the Lighthouse," whose unspoken feelings and observations highlight themes of memory, change, and unfulfilled desire.
E946026 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 Bankes | Statement: [To the Lighthouse, hasCharacter, William Bankes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Bankes
Context triple: [To the Lighthouse, hasCharacter, William Bankes]
  • A. William Lambton
    William Lambton was a British army officer and surveyor best known for initiating and leading the early phases of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in the early 19th century.
  • B. Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson
    Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson is an acclaimed English character actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "The Full Monty," "In the Bedroom," and "Michael Clayton."
  • C. Wilfred Buckland
    Wilfred Buckland was an influential early Hollywood art director and production designer known for shaping the visual style of major silent-era films.
  • D. Joseph John Gurney
    Joseph John Gurney was a prominent 19th-century English Quaker minister, banker, and social reformer known for his work on prison reform, abolitionism, and religious writings.
  • E. George Giffard
    George Giffard was a British Army general who held senior command roles during World War II, particularly in the Southeast Asian theatre.
  • 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 Bankes
Triple: [To the Lighthouse, hasCharacter, William Bankes]
Generated description
William Bankes is a reflective, somewhat austere botanist and family friend in Virginia Woolf’s novel "To the Lighthouse," whose unspoken feelings and observations highlight themes of memory, change, and unfulfilled desire.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Bankes
Target entity description: William Bankes is a reflective, somewhat austere botanist and family friend in Virginia Woolf’s novel "To the Lighthouse," whose unspoken feelings and observations highlight themes of memory, change, and unfulfilled desire.
  • A. William Lambton
    William Lambton was a British army officer and surveyor best known for initiating and leading the early phases of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in the early 19th century.
  • B. Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson
    Thomas Geoffrey Wilkinson is an acclaimed English character actor known for his versatile performances in films such as "The Full Monty," "In the Bedroom," and "Michael Clayton."
  • C. Wilfred Buckland
    Wilfred Buckland was an influential early Hollywood art director and production designer known for shaping the visual style of major silent-era films.
  • D. Joseph John Gurney
    Joseph John Gurney was a prominent 19th-century English Quaker minister, banker, and social reformer known for his work on prison reform, abolitionism, and religious writings.
  • E. George Giffard
    George Giffard was a British Army general who held senior command roles during World War II, particularly in the Southeast Asian theatre.
  • 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_69d6ab01d2688190ad8ed6bda487eaa5 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a55f415081908eec78cb2c956598 completed April 10, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f090a95a908190a99e579e51cbeb4a completed April 28, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f0bd3e585481908223acfd780a72a2 completed April 28, 2026, 1:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f0ef31076c8190b33a6a2778d7ffbb completed April 28, 2026, 5:32 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:42 p.m.