Triple

T13811537
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hans Matheson E331902 entity
Predicate portrayed P1668 FINISHED
Object Alec d'Urberville
Alec d'Urberville is the wealthy, manipulative antagonist of Thomas Hardy’s novel "Tess of the d’Urbervilles," whose actions tragically shape the fate of the heroine, Tess.
E1062186 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: Alec d'Urberville | Statement: [Hans Matheson, portrayed, Alec d'Urberville]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alec d'Urberville
Context triple: [Hans Matheson, portrayed, Alec d'Urberville]
  • A. William Peverel
    William Peverel was an 11th–12th century Norman knight and prominent landholder in England, traditionally associated with the early Norman administration of the Peak District and the founding of Peveril Castle.
  • B. William Cornysh
    William Cornysh was an English Renaissance composer and dramatist known for his influential sacred and secular music at the Tudor court.
  • C. Julian Peveril
    Julian Peveril is the fictional protagonist of Sir Walter Scott’s historical novel "Peveril of the Peak," set in 17th-century England during the aftermath of the English Civil War and the Popish Plot.
  • D. Henry Fairfax
    Henry Fairfax was a member of the prominent Fairfax family, an English noble lineage influential in politics and society from the early modern period onward.
  • E. Roderick Elliston
    Roderick Elliston is the tormented protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tale “Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent,” whose life is consumed by a metaphorical serpent representing his destructive self-absorption.
  • 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: Alec d'Urberville
Triple: [Hans Matheson, portrayed, Alec d'Urberville]
Generated description
Alec d'Urberville is the wealthy, manipulative antagonist of Thomas Hardy’s novel "Tess of the d’Urbervilles," whose actions tragically shape the fate of the heroine, Tess.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alec d'Urberville
Target entity description: Alec d'Urberville is the wealthy, manipulative antagonist of Thomas Hardy’s novel "Tess of the d’Urbervilles," whose actions tragically shape the fate of the heroine, Tess.
  • A. William Peverel
    William Peverel was an 11th–12th century Norman knight and prominent landholder in England, traditionally associated with the early Norman administration of the Peak District and the founding of Peveril Castle.
  • B. William Cornysh
    William Cornysh was an English Renaissance composer and dramatist known for his influential sacred and secular music at the Tudor court.
  • C. Julian Peveril
    Julian Peveril is the fictional protagonist of Sir Walter Scott’s historical novel "Peveril of the Peak," set in 17th-century England during the aftermath of the English Civil War and the Popish Plot.
  • D. Henry Fairfax
    Henry Fairfax was a member of the prominent Fairfax family, an English noble lineage influential in politics and society from the early modern period onward.
  • E. Roderick Elliston
    Roderick Elliston is the tormented protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tale “Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent,” whose life is consumed by a metaphorical serpent representing his destructive self-absorption.
  • 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_69d81c59f8808190a851bc56afdc55e9 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de026ff6b481908066d6bf27064417 completed April 14, 2026, 9:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7b09161108190abbd97a30af9ab49 completed May 3, 2026, 8:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7b138fda88190b2b7ffb51ce02a40 completed May 3, 2026, 8:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7b28ca218819097fc35042d3b278a completed May 3, 2026, 8:39 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:12 p.m.