Triple

T14181590
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Poor White E351464 entity
Predicate hasMainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Hugh McVey
Hugh McVey is the introspective, socially isolated inventor at the center of Sherwood Anderson’s novel "Poor White," whose life reflects the tensions of industrialization and small-town America.
E1087721 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: Hugh McVey | Statement: [Poor White, hasMainCharacter, Hugh McVey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hugh McVey
Context triple: [Poor White, hasMainCharacter, Hugh McVey]
  • A. Phil Wallace
    Phil Wallace is a British businessman best known for owning and serving as long-time chairman of Stevenage Football Club.
  • B. Lance Briggs
    Lance Briggs is a former NFL linebacker best known for his long, Pro Bowl–caliber career with the Chicago Bears.
  • C. Jeff Perry
    Jeff Perry is an American actor and theater director best known as a co-founder of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company and for his roles in television series such as "Scandal."
  • D. Cal McVey
    Cal McVey was a 19th-century American baseball player and one of the sport’s earliest professional stars, known for his versatility in the infield and outfield.
  • E. Greg Clark
    Greg Clark is a British Conservative politician who served as the inaugural Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and has held several senior government roles.
  • 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: Hugh McVey
Triple: [Poor White, hasMainCharacter, Hugh McVey]
Generated description
Hugh McVey is the introspective, socially isolated inventor at the center of Sherwood Anderson’s novel "Poor White," whose life reflects the tensions of industrialization and small-town America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hugh McVey
Target entity description: Hugh McVey is the introspective, socially isolated inventor at the center of Sherwood Anderson’s novel "Poor White," whose life reflects the tensions of industrialization and small-town America.
  • A. Phil Wallace
    Phil Wallace is a British businessman best known for owning and serving as long-time chairman of Stevenage Football Club.
  • B. Lance Briggs
    Lance Briggs is a former NFL linebacker best known for his long, Pro Bowl–caliber career with the Chicago Bears.
  • C. Jeff Perry
    Jeff Perry is an American actor and theater director best known as a co-founder of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company and for his roles in television series such as "Scandal."
  • D. Cal McVey
    Cal McVey was a 19th-century American baseball player and one of the sport’s earliest professional stars, known for his versatility in the infield and outfield.
  • E. Greg Clark
    Greg Clark is a British Conservative politician who served as the inaugural Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and has held several senior government roles.
  • 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_69d8278834a08190b0f1784e58d7b99c completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de61ca3ad88190944850c97760dcbf completed April 14, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd280656a881909c565b99e85ae9bd completed May 8, 2026, 12:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd29d254608190a9f0b8e5623451aa completed May 8, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd2aa5bf3c8190bb62ce780d417b7d completed May 8, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:02 a.m.