Triple

T12263611
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Far from the Madding Crowd E292286 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object William Boldwood
William Boldwood is a wealthy, reserved farmer whose obsessive, unrequited love for Bathsheba Everdene drives much of the tragic tension in Thomas Hardy’s novel "Far from the Madding Crowd."
E971176 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 Boldwood | Statement: [Far from the Madding Crowd, mainCharacter, William Boldwood]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Boldwood
Context triple: [Far from the Madding Crowd, mainCharacter, William Boldwood]
  • A. Thomas Buddenbrook
    Thomas Buddenbrook is the ambitious yet increasingly disillusioned head of a wealthy merchant family in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," whose life reflects the decline of his bourgeois dynasty.
  • B. Silas Lapham
    Silas Lapham is a self-made American paint magnate whose moral and social struggles in Gilded Age Boston form the center of William Dean Howells’s realist novel.
  • C. Charles Waterstreet
    Charles Waterstreet is an Australian barrister, author, and former television producer best known for inspiring and co-creating the legal drama series "Rake."
  • D. William Dorrit
    William Dorrit is a central figure in Charles Dickens's novel "Little Dorrit," known as Amy Dorrit’s father whose long imprisonment for debt and later rise to wealth highlight themes of pride, social status, and personal transformation.
  • E. Tertius Lydgate
    Tertius Lydgate is an idealistic young doctor in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch," whose progressive medical ambitions and troubled marriage drive much of the book’s social and psychological drama.
  • 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 Boldwood
Triple: [Far from the Madding Crowd, mainCharacter, William Boldwood]
Generated description
William Boldwood is a wealthy, reserved farmer whose obsessive, unrequited love for Bathsheba Everdene drives much of the tragic tension in Thomas Hardy’s novel "Far from the Madding Crowd."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Boldwood
Target entity description: William Boldwood is a wealthy, reserved farmer whose obsessive, unrequited love for Bathsheba Everdene drives much of the tragic tension in Thomas Hardy’s novel "Far from the Madding Crowd."
  • A. Thomas Buddenbrook
    Thomas Buddenbrook is the ambitious yet increasingly disillusioned head of a wealthy merchant family in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," whose life reflects the decline of his bourgeois dynasty.
  • B. Silas Lapham
    Silas Lapham is a self-made American paint magnate whose moral and social struggles in Gilded Age Boston form the center of William Dean Howells’s realist novel.
  • C. Charles Waterstreet
    Charles Waterstreet is an Australian barrister, author, and former television producer best known for inspiring and co-creating the legal drama series "Rake."
  • D. William Dorrit
    William Dorrit is a central figure in Charles Dickens's novel "Little Dorrit," known as Amy Dorrit’s father whose long imprisonment for debt and later rise to wealth highlight themes of pride, social status, and personal transformation.
  • E. Tertius Lydgate
    Tertius Lydgate is an idealistic young doctor in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch," whose progressive medical ambitions and troubled marriage drive much of the book’s social and psychological drama.
  • 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_69d6ab6856488190b5d31178d5015f8e completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d91cdb0a948190aeee4ca3c01f801e completed April 10, 2026, 3:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f60ac3ce008190856a917c2c75862a completed May 2, 2026, 2:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f60f220554819088c0aa5706f44856 completed May 2, 2026, 2:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f60f9f40f48190b60be483d1922b22 completed May 2, 2026, 2:52 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:52 p.m.