Triple

T12774306
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Rocking-Horse Winner E305327 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Hester
Hester is a central character in D.H. Lawrence's short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner," portrayed as a materialistic mother whose emotional detachment and obsession with wealth drive the tragic events of the narrative.
E1002651 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: Hester | Statement: [The Rocking-Horse Winner, mainCharacter, Hester]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hester
Context triple: [The Rocking-Horse Winner, mainCharacter, Hester]
  • A. Hester Pitt
    Hester Pitt was a daughter of British statesman William Pitt the Elder, belonging to a prominent 18th-century political family.
  • B. Hester Harper
    Hester Harper is the psychologically complex, reclusive protagonist of Elizabeth Jolley’s novel "The Well," whose intense relationship with her young companion drives the story’s unsettling exploration of power, dependence, and moral ambiguity.
  • C. Hester Sigerson
    Hester Sigerson was the mother of Irish poet Dora Sigerson Shorter and a member of the culturally active Sigerson family associated with Ireland’s literary and nationalist circles.
  • D. Hester Mahieu
    Hester Mahieu was a member of the Leiden Separatist community and the wife of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke, making her part of the early 17th-century English Pilgrim circle associated with the founding of Plymouth Colony.
  • E. Hester Prynne
    Hester Prynne is the resilient, ostracized heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, known for bearing an illegitimate child and defiantly wearing the scarlet letter “A” as a symbol of both shame and strength in Puritan New England.
  • 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: Hester
Triple: [The Rocking-Horse Winner, mainCharacter, Hester]
Generated description
Hester is a central character in D.H. Lawrence's short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner," portrayed as a materialistic mother whose emotional detachment and obsession with wealth drive the tragic events of the narrative.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hester
Target entity description: Hester is a central character in D.H. Lawrence's short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner," portrayed as a materialistic mother whose emotional detachment and obsession with wealth drive the tragic events of the narrative.
  • A. Hester Pitt
    Hester Pitt was a daughter of British statesman William Pitt the Elder, belonging to a prominent 18th-century political family.
  • B. Hester Harper
    Hester Harper is the psychologically complex, reclusive protagonist of Elizabeth Jolley’s novel "The Well," whose intense relationship with her young companion drives the story’s unsettling exploration of power, dependence, and moral ambiguity.
  • C. Hester Sigerson
    Hester Sigerson was the mother of Irish poet Dora Sigerson Shorter and a member of the culturally active Sigerson family associated with Ireland’s literary and nationalist circles.
  • D. Hester Mahieu
    Hester Mahieu was a member of the Leiden Separatist community and the wife of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke, making her part of the early 17th-century English Pilgrim circle associated with the founding of Plymouth Colony.
  • E. Hester Prynne
    Hester Prynne is the resilient, ostracized heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, known for bearing an illegitimate child and defiantly wearing the scarlet letter “A” as a symbol of both shame and strength in Puritan New England.
  • 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_69d7bdf2b43c819098ae5aa68e61ea58 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96df6b3c88190b0bbe70de8ddcbf3 completed April 10, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f684fee60c81909245d4d70c9338c0 completed May 2, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f687ae18c08190a94dca38bb69d10f completed May 2, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f68884ed348190a1b2c89b1d655fa9 completed May 2, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.