Triple

T13677110
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tristram Shandy E327905 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Walter Shandy
Walter Shandy is the eccentric, philosophically obsessed father of the narrator in Laurence Sterne’s novel "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman."
E1056197 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: Walter Shandy | Statement: [Tristram Shandy, hasCharacter, Walter Shandy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Shandy
Context triple: [Tristram Shandy, hasCharacter, Walter Shandy]
  • A. Joseph Andrews
    Joseph Andrews is a comic novel by Henry Fielding that parodies the sentimental fiction of its time and is considered a foundational work of the English realistic novel.
  • B. Squire Allworthy
    Squire Allworthy is a wealthy, benevolent country gentleman in Henry Fielding’s novel "Tom Jones," known for his moral integrity and charitable nature.
  • C. Tertius Lydgate
    Tertius Lydgate is an idealistic young doctor in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch," whose progressive medical ambitions and troubled marriage drive much of the book’s social and psychological drama.
  • D. Ernest Maltravers
    Ernest Maltravers is a philosophical and melodramatic novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that explores themes of education, morality, and social ambition in 19th-century England.
  • E. Lord Warburton
    Lord Warburton is an idealistic, wealthy English aristocrat in Henry James's novel "The Portrait of a Lady," whose progressive views and romantic interest in Isabel Archer highlight the tensions between Old World tradition and New World independence.
  • 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: Walter Shandy
Triple: [Tristram Shandy, hasCharacter, Walter Shandy]
Generated description
Walter Shandy is the eccentric, philosophically obsessed father of the narrator in Laurence Sterne’s novel "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Shandy
Target entity description: Walter Shandy is the eccentric, philosophically obsessed father of the narrator in Laurence Sterne’s novel "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman."
  • A. Joseph Andrews
    Joseph Andrews is a comic novel by Henry Fielding that parodies the sentimental fiction of its time and is considered a foundational work of the English realistic novel.
  • B. Squire Allworthy
    Squire Allworthy is a wealthy, benevolent country gentleman in Henry Fielding’s novel "Tom Jones," known for his moral integrity and charitable nature.
  • C. Tertius Lydgate
    Tertius Lydgate is an idealistic young doctor in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch," whose progressive medical ambitions and troubled marriage drive much of the book’s social and psychological drama.
  • D. Ernest Maltravers
    Ernest Maltravers is a philosophical and melodramatic novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that explores themes of education, morality, and social ambition in 19th-century England.
  • E. Lord Warburton
    Lord Warburton is an idealistic, wealthy English aristocrat in Henry James's novel "The Portrait of a Lady," whose progressive views and romantic interest in Isabel Archer highlight the tensions between Old World tradition and New World independence.
  • 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_69d8076f1fa8819094664a59b55010df completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbc65d8dc081909664e69bb38610ba completed April 12, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f794405a38819085f38170c56564f2 completed May 3, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7955fce288190a7e426f467517a91 completed May 3, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7996cddf08190973e493fb788ce7a completed May 3, 2026, 6:52 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:53 p.m.