Triple

T14722825
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Thornton E345857 entity
Predicate hasMother P1909 FINISHED
Object Hannah Thornton
Hannah Thornton is a fictional character in Elizabeth Gaskell's novel "North and South," known as the strong-willed and class-conscious mother of industrialist John Thornton.
E1121345 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: Hannah Thornton | Statement: [John Thornton, hasMother, Hannah Thornton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hannah Thornton
Context triple: [John Thornton, hasMother, Hannah Thornton]
  • A. Hannah Thurston
    Hannah Thurston is a 19th-century novel by American author Bayard Taylor that explores social reform, gender roles, and small-town life in upstate New York.
  • B. Hannah Allerton
    Hannah Allerton was a member of the early colonial Allerton family associated with the Plymouth Colony era in 17th-century New England.
  • C. Hannah Callowhill
    Hannah Callowhill was an English Quaker who effectively governed the Province of Pennsylvania in the early 18th century as the second wife and acting political partner of William Penn.
  • D. Hannah Hudson
    Hannah Hudson was the wife of colonial Massachusetts governor and Harvard College president John Leverett, known primarily through her association with his prominent political and academic career in early 18th-century New England.
  • E. Hannah Lorimer
    Hannah Lorimer is the mother of Robert Lorimer, a notable Scottish architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: Hannah Thornton
Triple: [John Thornton, hasMother, Hannah Thornton]
Generated description
Hannah Thornton is a fictional character in Elizabeth Gaskell's novel "North and South," known as the strong-willed and class-conscious mother of industrialist John Thornton.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hannah Thornton
Target entity description: Hannah Thornton is a fictional character in Elizabeth Gaskell's novel "North and South," known as the strong-willed and class-conscious mother of industrialist John Thornton.
  • A. Hannah Thurston
    Hannah Thurston is a 19th-century novel by American author Bayard Taylor that explores social reform, gender roles, and small-town life in upstate New York.
  • B. Hannah Allerton
    Hannah Allerton was a member of the early colonial Allerton family associated with the Plymouth Colony era in 17th-century New England.
  • C. Hannah Callowhill
    Hannah Callowhill was an English Quaker who effectively governed the Province of Pennsylvania in the early 18th century as the second wife and acting political partner of William Penn.
  • D. Hannah Hudson
    Hannah Hudson was the wife of colonial Massachusetts governor and Harvard College president John Leverett, known primarily through her association with his prominent political and academic career in early 18th-century New England.
  • E. Hannah Lorimer
    Hannah Lorimer is the mother of Robert Lorimer, a notable Scottish architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69d822e5911c8190ba589f957dbd9ba7 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dec25d56fc8190871873ca55d49272 completed April 14, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe24ac17888190bda346df75d37620 completed May 8, 2026, 6 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe357d7ae0819085ad5f31ef5722a0 completed May 8, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe361cd7188190adb9c57314de9276 completed May 8, 2026, 7:14 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:29 a.m.