Triple

T12326399
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Madama Butterfly E293840 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Sharpless
Sharpless is the American consul in Nagasaki who serves as a sympathetic but ultimately powerless observer of the tragic events in Puccini’s opera *Madama Butterfly*.
 E975181 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: Sharpless | Statement: [Madama Butterfly, mainCharacter, Sharpless]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sharpless
Context triple: [Madama Butterfly, mainCharacter, Sharpless]
  • A. Sharpless
    Sharpless is the surname of K. Barry Sharpless, an American chemist renowned for his Nobel Prize–winning work in asymmetric synthesis and click chemistry.
  • B. Barnard
    Barnard is a surname and given name of English and French origin, borne by various notable individuals and institutions.
  • C. Per Collinder
    Per Collinder was a Swedish astronomer known for his influential catalog of open star clusters published in the early 20th century.
  • D. Sandage
    Sandage is a surname most notably associated with Allan R. Sandage, a prominent American astronomer known for his work on the expansion rate and age of the universe.
  • E. Pictor
    Pictor is a small, faint southern sky constellation whose name means "the Painter," representing an artist’s easel.
  • 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: Sharpless
Triple: [Madama Butterfly, mainCharacter, Sharpless]
Generated description
Sharpless is the American consul in Nagasaki who serves as a sympathetic but ultimately powerless observer of the tragic events in Puccini’s opera *Madama Butterfly*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sharpless
Target entity description: Sharpless is the American consul in Nagasaki who serves as a sympathetic but ultimately powerless observer of the tragic events in Puccini’s opera *Madama Butterfly*.
  • A. Sharpless
    Sharpless is the surname of K. Barry Sharpless, an American chemist renowned for his Nobel Prize–winning work in asymmetric synthesis and click chemistry.
  • B. Barnard
    Barnard is a surname and given name of English and French origin, borne by various notable individuals and institutions.
  • C. Per Collinder
    Per Collinder was a Swedish astronomer known for his influential catalog of open star clusters published in the early 20th century.
  • D. Sandage
    Sandage is a surname most notably associated with Allan R. Sandage, a prominent American astronomer known for his work on the expansion rate and age of the universe.
  • E. Pictor
    Pictor is a small, faint southern sky constellation whose name means "the Painter," representing an artist’s easel.
  • 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_69d6ab6ae0dc8190b1522a9c1c55c114 completed April 8, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d93f4f90a881908c5060dd197744d1 completed April 10, 2026, 6:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f61e8d27288190bdf32acd600141db completed May 2, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f61f9493d081909a543bcafeb508d1 completed May 2, 2026, 4 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f620ad9ec0819099909142fbad6412 completed May 2, 2026, 4:05 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:53 p.m.