Triple

T14722826
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Thornton E345857 entity
Predicate hasSister P31639 FINISHED
Object Fanny Thornton
Fanny Thornton is a character in Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel "North and South," known as John Thornton’s socially ambitious and somewhat frivolous younger sister.
E1117317 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: Fanny Thornton | Statement: [John Thornton, hasSister, Fanny Thornton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fanny Thornton
Context triple: [John Thornton, hasSister, Fanny Thornton]
  • A. Fanny Eden
    Fanny Eden was a member of the British Eden family in colonial India, after whom the famous cricket ground Eden Gardens in Kolkata was named.
  • B. Fanny Davies
    Fanny Davies was a prominent British pianist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for her interpretations of Romantic repertoire and her close association with the Schumann and Brahms traditions.
  • C. Fanny Minafer
    Fanny Minafer is a central character in Booth Tarkington’s novel "The Magnificent Ambersons," known for her anxious, meddling nature and her role in the decline of the once-prominent Amberson family.
  • D. Letitia Cropley
    Letitia Cropley is an eccentric parishioner in the British sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley," best known for her bizarre and unappetizing culinary creations.
  • E. Fanny Smith
    Fanny Smith was the mother of the influential British statistician and eugenicist Karl Pearson.
  • 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: Fanny Thornton
Triple: [John Thornton, hasSister, Fanny Thornton]
Generated description
Fanny Thornton is a character in Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel "North and South," known as John Thornton’s socially ambitious and somewhat frivolous younger sister.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fanny Thornton
Target entity description: Fanny Thornton is a character in Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel "North and South," known as John Thornton’s socially ambitious and somewhat frivolous younger sister.
  • A. Fanny Eden
    Fanny Eden was a member of the British Eden family in colonial India, after whom the famous cricket ground Eden Gardens in Kolkata was named.
  • B. Fanny Davies
    Fanny Davies was a prominent British pianist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, renowned for her interpretations of Romantic repertoire and her close association with the Schumann and Brahms traditions.
  • C. Fanny Minafer
    Fanny Minafer is a central character in Booth Tarkington’s novel "The Magnificent Ambersons," known for her anxious, meddling nature and her role in the decline of the once-prominent Amberson family.
  • D. Letitia Cropley
    Letitia Cropley is an eccentric parishioner in the British sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley," best known for her bizarre and unappetizing culinary creations.
  • E. Fanny Smith
    Fanny Smith was the mother of the influential British statistician and eugenicist Karl Pearson.
  • 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_69fdfb8624bc8190b20441c2f5c4a2fa completed May 8, 2026, 3:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fdfd27c6188190951d50f75a5f5430 completed May 8, 2026, 3:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fdfd98ca8881909ed8d505518e9fe9 completed May 8, 2026, 3:13 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:29 a.m.