Triple
T12263704
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
E292288
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Michael Henchard
Michael Henchard is the tragic, impulsive grain merchant whose rise and fall in a rural English town drives the plot of Thomas Hardy’s novel *The Mayor of Casterbridge*.
|
E971188
|
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: Michael Henchard | Statement: [The Mayor of Casterbridge, mainCharacter, Michael Henchard]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Henchard Context triple: [The Mayor of Casterbridge, mainCharacter, Michael Henchard]
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A.
Mr. Harling
Mr. Harling is a prosperous, energetic merchant and the head of the Harling family in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known for his strict yet fundamentally kind-hearted nature.
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B.
Nathan Barley
Nathan Barley is a British satirical television series created by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris that lampoons early-2000s hipster and media culture through its eponymous, self-obsessed antihero.
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C.
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.
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D.
Henry Burden
Henry Burden was a 19th-century Scottish-American industrialist and inventor known for revolutionizing iron manufacturing, particularly through his patented horseshoe machine and development of the Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York.
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E.
Sam Dodsworth
Sam Dodsworth is the successful yet emotionally unfulfilled American businessman at the center of Sinclair Lewis’s novel and its stage and film adaptations, whose travels in Europe trigger a profound midlife reckoning with his marriage and identity.
- 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: Michael Henchard Triple: [The Mayor of Casterbridge, mainCharacter, Michael Henchard]
Generated description
Michael Henchard is the tragic, impulsive grain merchant whose rise and fall in a rural English town drives the plot of Thomas Hardy’s novel *The Mayor of Casterbridge*.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Henchard Target entity description: Michael Henchard is the tragic, impulsive grain merchant whose rise and fall in a rural English town drives the plot of Thomas Hardy’s novel *The Mayor of Casterbridge*.
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A.
Mr. Harling
Mr. Harling is a prosperous, energetic merchant and the head of the Harling family in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known for his strict yet fundamentally kind-hearted nature.
-
B.
Nathan Barley
Nathan Barley is a British satirical television series created by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris that lampoons early-2000s hipster and media culture through its eponymous, self-obsessed antihero.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
Henry Burden
Henry Burden was a 19th-century Scottish-American industrialist and inventor known for revolutionizing iron manufacturing, particularly through his patented horseshoe machine and development of the Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York.
-
E.
Sam Dodsworth
Sam Dodsworth is the successful yet emotionally unfulfilled American businessman at the center of Sinclair Lewis’s novel and its stage and film adaptations, whose travels in Europe trigger a profound midlife reckoning with his marriage and identity.
- 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.