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]
  • 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
  • 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*.
  • 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.