Triple

T12263705
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Mayor of Casterbridge E292288 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Donald Farfrae
Donald Farfrae is a capable and good-natured Scottish grain merchant who rises to prominence in Thomas Hardy’s novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge," becoming both business rival and eventual successor to Michael Henchard.
E971189 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: Donald Farfrae | Statement: [The Mayor of Casterbridge, mainCharacter, Donald Farfrae]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Farfrae
Context triple: [The Mayor of Casterbridge, mainCharacter, Donald Farfrae]
  • A. Alex Tennant
    Alex Tennant is a fictional character on the television series "NCIS: Hawaiʻi," depicted as the teenage son of lead agent Jane Tennant.
  • B. Sam Farrar
    Sam Farrar is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as a touring and later official member of the pop rock band Maroon 5.
  • C. Charles Butterworth
    Charles Butterworth was an American comic film actor of the 1930s and early 1940s, known for his dry, dithering persona in numerous Hollywood comedies.
  • D. Bren MacGuff
    Bren MacGuff is the sharp-tongued, supportive stepmother character from the 2007 film "Juno," portrayed by Allison Janney.
  • E. Ned Kynaston
    Ned Kynaston is a character in the film "Stage Beauty," portrayed as one of the last celebrated male actors to specialize in playing female roles on the 17th-century English stage.
  • 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: Donald Farfrae
Triple: [The Mayor of Casterbridge, mainCharacter, Donald Farfrae]
Generated description
Donald Farfrae is a capable and good-natured Scottish grain merchant who rises to prominence in Thomas Hardy’s novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge," becoming both business rival and eventual successor to Michael Henchard.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Farfrae
Target entity description: Donald Farfrae is a capable and good-natured Scottish grain merchant who rises to prominence in Thomas Hardy’s novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge," becoming both business rival and eventual successor to Michael Henchard.
  • A. Alex Tennant
    Alex Tennant is a fictional character on the television series "NCIS: Hawaiʻi," depicted as the teenage son of lead agent Jane Tennant.
  • B. Sam Farrar
    Sam Farrar is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as a touring and later official member of the pop rock band Maroon 5.
  • C. Charles Butterworth
    Charles Butterworth was an American comic film actor of the 1930s and early 1940s, known for his dry, dithering persona in numerous Hollywood comedies.
  • D. Bren MacGuff
    Bren MacGuff is the sharp-tongued, supportive stepmother character from the 2007 film "Juno," portrayed by Allison Janney.
  • E. Ned Kynaston
    Ned Kynaston is a character in the film "Stage Beauty," portrayed as one of the last celebrated male actors to specialize in playing female roles on the 17th-century English stage.
  • 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.