Triple

T1438120
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Augustan literature E31002 entity
Predicate notableAuthor P4290 FINISHED
Object Richard Steele
Richard Steele was an influential early 18th-century Irish writer, essayist, and co-founder of the periodicals The Tatler and The Spectator, central to the development of English Augustan prose.
E167079 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: Richard Steele | Statement: [Augustan literature, notableAuthor, Richard Steele]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Steele
Context triple: [Augustan literature, notableAuthor, Richard Steele]
  • A. Joseph Addison
    Joseph Addison was an influential early 18th-century English essayist, poet, and politician best known for co-founding and writing for the periodicals The Spectator and The Tatler.
  • B. Samuel W. Johnson
    Samuel W. Johnson was a 19th-century American chemist and agricultural scientist who played a key role in organizing the chemical profession in the United States.
  • C. Samuel Johnson
    Samuel Johnson was an 18th-century English writer, lexicographer, and critic best known for compiling *A Dictionary of the English Language* (1755), one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of English.
  • D. Edmund Burke
    Edmund Burke was an 18th-century Irish statesman, political theorist, and philosopher widely regarded as the intellectual father of modern conservatism.
  • E. J. Dodsley
    J. Dodsley was an 18th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing significant literary and historical works.
  • 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: Richard Steele
Triple: [Augustan literature, notableAuthor, Richard Steele]
Generated description
Richard Steele was an influential early 18th-century Irish writer, essayist, and co-founder of the periodicals The Tatler and The Spectator, central to the development of English Augustan prose.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Steele
Target entity description: Richard Steele was an influential early 18th-century Irish writer, essayist, and co-founder of the periodicals The Tatler and The Spectator, central to the development of English Augustan prose.
  • A. Joseph Addison
    Joseph Addison was an influential early 18th-century English essayist, poet, and politician best known for co-founding and writing for the periodicals The Spectator and The Tatler.
  • B. Samuel W. Johnson
    Samuel W. Johnson was a 19th-century American chemist and agricultural scientist who played a key role in organizing the chemical profession in the United States.
  • C. Samuel Johnson
    Samuel Johnson was an 18th-century English writer, lexicographer, and critic best known for compiling *A Dictionary of the English Language* (1755), one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of English.
  • D. Edmund Burke
    Edmund Burke was an 18th-century Irish statesman, political theorist, and philosopher widely regarded as the intellectual father of modern conservatism.
  • E. J. Dodsley
    J. Dodsley was an 18th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing significant literary and historical works.
  • 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_69a4991633388190a4d61b5a98aa407a completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c5059ef88190af20e796acdb2058 completed March 1, 2026, 11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad0e6e12748190baeb91ba843a716f completed March 8, 2026, 5:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad0ed1fb608190a9295808e144d0fb completed March 8, 2026, 5:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad0f90cdec81908a981e12184cdd75 completed March 8, 2026, 5:56 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8 p.m.