Triple
T12960782
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Middlemarch (fictional town) |
E310136
|
entity |
| Predicate | associatedWithCharacter |
P1481
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Nicholas Bulstrode
Nicholas Bulstrode is a wealthy, pious-seeming banker in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch" whose hidden past and moral hypocrisy become central to the story’s social and ethical conflicts.
|
E1012842
|
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: Nicholas Bulstrode | Statement: [Middlemarch (fictional town), associatedWithCharacter, Nicholas Bulstrode]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Bulstrode Context triple: [Middlemarch (fictional town), associatedWithCharacter, Nicholas Bulstrode]
-
A.
Mr. Chipping
Mr. Chipping is the gentle, aging schoolmaster at the heart of James Hilton’s novella "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," known for his lifelong dedication to teaching and his quiet, enduring impact on generations of students.
-
B.
William Boldwood
William Boldwood is a wealthy, reserved farmer whose obsessive, unrequited love for Bathsheba Everdene drives much of the tragic tension in Thomas Hardy’s novel "Far from the Madding Crowd."
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C.
Mr. Bedford
Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
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D.
Mr. Grimsdale
Mr. Grimsdale is a comic supporting character in the British film "The Square Peg," known as the long-suffering boss and foil to Norman Wisdom’s bumbling protagonist.
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E.
Godfrey Cass
Godfrey Cass is a central character in George Eliot’s novel "Silas Marner," known as a morally conflicted landowner whose secret past and weak resolve shape much of the story’s drama.
- 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: Nicholas Bulstrode Triple: [Middlemarch (fictional town), associatedWithCharacter, Nicholas Bulstrode]
Generated description
Nicholas Bulstrode is a wealthy, pious-seeming banker in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch" whose hidden past and moral hypocrisy become central to the story’s social and ethical conflicts.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Bulstrode Target entity description: Nicholas Bulstrode is a wealthy, pious-seeming banker in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch" whose hidden past and moral hypocrisy become central to the story’s social and ethical conflicts.
-
A.
Mr. Chipping
Mr. Chipping is the gentle, aging schoolmaster at the heart of James Hilton’s novella "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," known for his lifelong dedication to teaching and his quiet, enduring impact on generations of students.
-
B.
William Boldwood
William Boldwood is a wealthy, reserved farmer whose obsessive, unrequited love for Bathsheba Everdene drives much of the tragic tension in Thomas Hardy’s novel "Far from the Madding Crowd."
-
C.
Mr. Bedford
Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
-
D.
Mr. Grimsdale
Mr. Grimsdale is a comic supporting character in the British film "The Square Peg," known as the long-suffering boss and foil to Norman Wisdom’s bumbling protagonist.
-
E.
Godfrey Cass
Godfrey Cass is a central character in George Eliot’s novel "Silas Marner," known as a morally conflicted landowner whose secret past and weak resolve shape much of the story’s drama.
- 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_69d7bdfb57a88190836b743e2825feca |
completed | April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d97e2e44908190bb8b43fc5c3b8a8a |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f6b8e006cc819091e5f4b044cadea4 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 2:54 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f6b9dac2c88190850304023f156969 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 2:58 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f6bb2602848190b9588134c71d0ef4 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 3:04 a.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:44 p.m.