Triple

T14528551
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sister Carrie E340842 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object George Hurstwood
George Hurstwood is a central tragic figure in Theodore Dreiser’s novel "Sister Carrie," whose fall from a respectable middle-class life into poverty and despair illustrates the harsh realities of ambition and moral compromise in urban America.
E1104221 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: George Hurstwood | Statement: [Sister Carrie, mainCharacter, George Hurstwood]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Hurstwood
Context triple: [Sister Carrie, mainCharacter, George Hurstwood]
  • A. Horace Vandergelder
    Horace Vandergelder is a wealthy, cantankerous Yonkers merchant whose stubborn pursuit of marriage drives the comic misadventures in Thornton Wilder’s play "The Matchmaker."
  • B. Mr. Mushnik
    Mr. Mushnik is the gruff, profit-driven owner of the struggling flower shop in the horror-comedy musical "Little Shop of Horrors."
  • C. Mr. Fischoeder
    Mr. Fischoeder is the eccentric, wealthy, and eyepatch-wearing landlord of the Belcher family in the animated TV series "Bob's Burgers."
  • D. Henry Schultz
    Henry Schultz was an American economist and early pioneer of econometrics, known for his influential work on demand analysis and for helping establish econometrics as a rigorous quantitative discipline.
  • E. Joseph Grand
    Joseph Grand is a minor municipal clerk in Albert Camus's novel "The Plague," known for his obsessive struggle to craft the perfect sentence and his quiet, persevering decency amid the epidemic.
  • 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: George Hurstwood
Triple: [Sister Carrie, mainCharacter, George Hurstwood]
Generated description
George Hurstwood is a central tragic figure in Theodore Dreiser’s novel "Sister Carrie," whose fall from a respectable middle-class life into poverty and despair illustrates the harsh realities of ambition and moral compromise in urban America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Hurstwood
Target entity description: George Hurstwood is a central tragic figure in Theodore Dreiser’s novel "Sister Carrie," whose fall from a respectable middle-class life into poverty and despair illustrates the harsh realities of ambition and moral compromise in urban America.
  • A. Horace Vandergelder
    Horace Vandergelder is a wealthy, cantankerous Yonkers merchant whose stubborn pursuit of marriage drives the comic misadventures in Thornton Wilder’s play "The Matchmaker."
  • B. Mr. Mushnik
    Mr. Mushnik is the gruff, profit-driven owner of the struggling flower shop in the horror-comedy musical "Little Shop of Horrors."
  • C. Mr. Fischoeder
    Mr. Fischoeder is the eccentric, wealthy, and eyepatch-wearing landlord of the Belcher family in the animated TV series "Bob's Burgers."
  • D. Henry Schultz
    Henry Schultz was an American economist and early pioneer of econometrics, known for his influential work on demand analysis and for helping establish econometrics as a rigorous quantitative discipline.
  • E. Joseph Grand
    Joseph Grand is a minor municipal clerk in Albert Camus's novel "The Plague," known for his obsessive struggle to craft the perfect sentence and his quiet, persevering decency amid the epidemic.
  • 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_69d822dac79c8190a84a073f3cbaced5 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dea051bc608190ad4d516c5e7bca43 completed April 14, 2026, 8:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd7a547c408190a1a19e12aac1d5bd completed May 8, 2026, 5:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd7be2dc0c8190b8950a1f43ce13ab completed May 8, 2026, 6 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd7c6422e08190b149efdf58c3572a completed May 8, 2026, 6:02 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:22 a.m.