Triple

T11902253
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gordon Drummond E283180 entity
Predicate parent P120 FINISHED
Object Catherine Oliphant
Catherine Oliphant is a fictional character in Barbara Pym’s novel "Less Than Angels," depicted as an observant, witty writer navigating academic and romantic entanglements in postwar London.
E953746 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: Catherine Oliphant | Statement: [Gordon Drummond, parent, Catherine Oliphant]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catherine Oliphant
Context triple: [Gordon Drummond, parent, Catherine Oliphant]
  • A. Elisabeth Furse
    Elisabeth Furse was a British writer and activist known for her work in political and social causes in mid-20th-century Britain.
  • B. Catherine Melville
    Catherine Melville was a 19th-century American woman best known as a sister of the novelist Herman Melville.
  • C. Katherine Carey
    Katherine Carey was an English noblewoman of the late 16th century, a member of the influential Carey family closely connected to the Tudor court.
  • D. Catherine Gordon
    Catherine Gordon was a Scottish heiress and the mother of the Romantic poet Lord Byron, whose troubled marriage and financial difficulties influenced his early life.
  • E. Euphemia Erskine
    Euphemia Erskine was a Scottish gentlewoman best known as the mother of the diarist and biographer James Boswell.
  • 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: Catherine Oliphant
Triple: [Gordon Drummond, parent, Catherine Oliphant]
Generated description
Catherine Oliphant is a fictional character in Barbara Pym’s novel "Less Than Angels," depicted as an observant, witty writer navigating academic and romantic entanglements in postwar London.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catherine Oliphant
Target entity description: Catherine Oliphant is a fictional character in Barbara Pym’s novel "Less Than Angels," depicted as an observant, witty writer navigating academic and romantic entanglements in postwar London.
  • A. Elisabeth Furse
    Elisabeth Furse was a British writer and activist known for her work in political and social causes in mid-20th-century Britain.
  • B. Catherine Melville
    Catherine Melville was a 19th-century American woman best known as a sister of the novelist Herman Melville.
  • C. Katherine Carey
    Katherine Carey was an English noblewoman of the late 16th century, a member of the influential Carey family closely connected to the Tudor court.
  • D. Catherine Gordon
    Catherine Gordon was a Scottish heiress and the mother of the Romantic poet Lord Byron, whose troubled marriage and financial difficulties influenced his early life.
  • E. Euphemia Erskine
    Euphemia Erskine was a Scottish gentlewoman best known as the mother of the diarist and biographer James Boswell.
  • 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_69d6ab2c07e88190ba13b0d21fd6cf33 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8dd1792648190853f15fbf217eebd completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f4183d29b081908cfbf4d91a365681 completed May 1, 2026, 3:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f41f1d2da0819082f00cf61a6530b6 completed May 1, 2026, 3:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f4228a73708190a6d2db321e175921 completed May 1, 2026, 3:48 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:44 p.m.