Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Witches of Eastwick E325338 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Jane Spofford
Jane Spofford is one of the three central women in John Updike’s novel "The Witches of Eastwick," known for discovering and wielding supernatural powers in a small New England town.
E1051592 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: Jane Spofford | Statement: [The Witches of Eastwick, mainCharacter, Jane Spofford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jane Spofford
Context triple: [The Witches of Eastwick, mainCharacter, Jane Spofford]
  • A. Elizabeth Bartlett
    Elizabeth Bartlett was the wife of American Revolutionary War general Peleg Wadsworth and the matriarch of a prominent New England family that included poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
  • B. Harriet Prescott Spofford
    Harriet Prescott Spofford was a 19th-century American writer best known for her gothic and romantic short stories, poetry, and novels that appeared in prominent literary magazines of her time.
  • C. Susan Apthorp
    Susan Apthorp was an American woman of the 18th–19th century known primarily through her family connections, including her later married name, Susan Apthorp Bulfinch.
  • D. Anne Spencer Morrow
    Anne Spencer Morrow was an American author and aviator best known as the wife and flying partner of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
  • E. Catherine Spaulding Kerr
    Catherine Spaulding Kerr was the wife of influential American educator and University of California president Clark Kerr.
  • 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: Jane Spofford
Triple: [The Witches of Eastwick, mainCharacter, Jane Spofford]
Generated description
Jane Spofford is one of the three central women in John Updike’s novel "The Witches of Eastwick," known for discovering and wielding supernatural powers in a small New England town.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jane Spofford
Target entity description: Jane Spofford is one of the three central women in John Updike’s novel "The Witches of Eastwick," known for discovering and wielding supernatural powers in a small New England town.
  • A. Elizabeth Bartlett
    Elizabeth Bartlett was the wife of American Revolutionary War general Peleg Wadsworth and the matriarch of a prominent New England family that included poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
  • B. Harriet Prescott Spofford
    Harriet Prescott Spofford was a 19th-century American writer best known for her gothic and romantic short stories, poetry, and novels that appeared in prominent literary magazines of her time.
  • C. Susan Apthorp
    Susan Apthorp was an American woman of the 18th–19th century known primarily through her family connections, including her later married name, Susan Apthorp Bulfinch.
  • D. Anne Spencer Morrow
    Anne Spencer Morrow was an American author and aviator best known as the wife and flying partner of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
  • E. Catherine Spaulding Kerr
    Catherine Spaulding Kerr was the wife of influential American educator and University of California president Clark Kerr.
  • 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_69d8076aae28819092cf636190ee5529 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbb0ad0a7c81909c7972187202db96 completed April 12, 2026, 2:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f77f9ecc2881909f71d71e056f9459 completed May 3, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f782c41634819096b0939c6c917259 completed May 3, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f78366eca88190be313c3a1b1e23ff completed May 3, 2026, 5:18 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:50 p.m.