Triple

T12866981
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Card E307745 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Edward Henry Machin
Edward Henry Machin is the ambitious, self-made businessman protagonist of Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Card," known for his resourcefulness and social climbing in the fictional town of Bursley.
E1007020 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: Edward Henry Machin | Statement: [The Card, mainCharacter, Edward Henry Machin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Henry Machin
Context triple: [The Card, mainCharacter, Edward Henry Machin]
  • A. Ozias Humphry
    Ozias Humphry was an 18th-century English portrait painter and miniaturist known for his refined style and for depicting prominent figures of his time.
  • B. Daniel Horsmanden
    Daniel Horsmanden was an 18th-century New York judge and diarist best known for orchestrating and documenting the controversial trials during the 1741 slave conspiracy panic.
  • C. William Jessop
    William Jessop was a prominent 18th-century English civil engineer known for his influential work on canals, docks, and early railways during the Industrial Revolution.
  • D. Henry Cooke
    Henry Cooke is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Cooke.
  • E. Peter Barlow
    Peter Barlow was a 19th-century English mathematician and physicist known for his work in number theory, optics, and for Barlow's Tables of mathematical functions.
  • 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: Edward Henry Machin
Triple: [The Card, mainCharacter, Edward Henry Machin]
Generated description
Edward Henry Machin is the ambitious, self-made businessman protagonist of Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Card," known for his resourcefulness and social climbing in the fictional town of Bursley.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Henry Machin
Target entity description: Edward Henry Machin is the ambitious, self-made businessman protagonist of Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Card," known for his resourcefulness and social climbing in the fictional town of Bursley.
  • A. Ozias Humphry
    Ozias Humphry was an 18th-century English portrait painter and miniaturist known for his refined style and for depicting prominent figures of his time.
  • B. Daniel Horsmanden
    Daniel Horsmanden was an 18th-century New York judge and diarist best known for orchestrating and documenting the controversial trials during the 1741 slave conspiracy panic.
  • C. William Jessop
    William Jessop was a prominent 18th-century English civil engineer known for his influential work on canals, docks, and early railways during the Industrial Revolution.
  • D. Henry Cooke
    Henry Cooke is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Cooke.
  • E. Peter Barlow
    Peter Barlow was a 19th-century English mathematician and physicist known for his work in number theory, optics, and for Barlow's Tables of mathematical functions.
  • 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_69d7bdf69bc48190af6c2621f28ca351 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9708e0b788190b72a3057e271c227 completed April 10, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f69bb092b88190b159f1d79156cf86 completed May 3, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f69d7984d48190adf5409a1ac7346a completed May 3, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f69e2abc38819095ff4977f2df9b2b completed May 3, 2026, 1 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:38 p.m.