Triple

T12263736
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Mayor of Casterbridge E292288 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Abel Whittle
Abel Whittle is a timid, simple-minded laborer in Thomas Hardy’s novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge," often serving as a source of pathos and comic relief through his mistreatment by the mayor.
E971195 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: Abel Whittle | Statement: [The Mayor of Casterbridge, hasCharacter, Abel Whittle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Abel Whittle
Context triple: [The Mayor of Casterbridge, hasCharacter, Abel Whittle]
  • A. Frank Whittle
    Frank Whittle was a pioneering English engineer and RAF officer best known for inventing the turbojet engine, which revolutionized aviation.
  • B. William Stirling
    William Stirling is a member of the Stirling family, known primarily as the brother of British World War II special forces pioneer David Stirling.
  • C. Frederick Handley Page
    Frederick Handley Page was a pioneering British aircraft designer and industrialist, best known for founding the Handley Page aircraft company and creating some of the earliest heavy bombers and airliners.
  • D. R. J. Mitchell
    R. J. Mitchell was a British aeronautical engineer best known for creating the iconic Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force during World War II.
  • E. Percival Provost
    The Percival Provost is a British-built, piston-engined basic trainer aircraft that served widely in military pilot training during the mid-20th century.
  • 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: Abel Whittle
Triple: [The Mayor of Casterbridge, hasCharacter, Abel Whittle]
Generated description
Abel Whittle is a timid, simple-minded laborer in Thomas Hardy’s novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge," often serving as a source of pathos and comic relief through his mistreatment by the mayor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Abel Whittle
Target entity description: Abel Whittle is a timid, simple-minded laborer in Thomas Hardy’s novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge," often serving as a source of pathos and comic relief through his mistreatment by the mayor.
  • A. Frank Whittle
    Frank Whittle was a pioneering English engineer and RAF officer best known for inventing the turbojet engine, which revolutionized aviation.
  • B. William Stirling
    William Stirling is a member of the Stirling family, known primarily as the brother of British World War II special forces pioneer David Stirling.
  • C. Frederick Handley Page
    Frederick Handley Page was a pioneering British aircraft designer and industrialist, best known for founding the Handley Page aircraft company and creating some of the earliest heavy bombers and airliners.
  • D. R. J. Mitchell
    R. J. Mitchell was a British aeronautical engineer best known for creating the iconic Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force during World War II.
  • E. Percival Provost
    The Percival Provost is a British-built, piston-engined basic trainer aircraft that served widely in military pilot training during the mid-20th century.
  • 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.