Triple

T16145390
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Hogarth E391766 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Four Stages of Cruelty
The Four Stages of Cruelty is a series of moralizing engravings by William Hogarth that graphically depict the progressive brutality and downfall of a cruel protagonist as a warning against animal and human cruelty.
E1195878 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: The Four Stages of Cruelty | Statement: [William Hogarth, notableWork, The Four Stages of Cruelty]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Four Stages of Cruelty
Context triple: [William Hogarth, notableWork, The Four Stages of Cruelty]
  • A. The Art of Cruelty
    The Art of Cruelty is a critical work of cultural theory in which Maggie Nelson examines representations of violence and suffering in art, film, and literature, questioning their ethical and aesthetic implications.
  • B. The Torture Garden
    The Torture Garden is a controversial 1899 decadent novel by French writer Octave Mirbeau that blends political satire, philosophical reflection, and graphic depictions of cruelty to critique Western civilization and authoritarian power.
  • C. The Vicious Kind
    The Vicious Kind is a 2009 dark comedy-drama film about a bitter, insomniac man whose life unravels when his younger brother brings home a new girlfriend for Thanksgiving.
  • D. Contes cruels
    Contes cruels is a celebrated collection of fantastical and macabre short stories by French symbolist writer Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, noted for its dark irony and philosophical pessimism.
  • E. The Slaughter Pen
    The Slaughter Pen is a rocky, boulder-strewn area on the Gettysburg battlefield known for its intense and deadly close-quarters fighting during the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • 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: The Four Stages of Cruelty
Triple: [William Hogarth, notableWork, The Four Stages of Cruelty]
Generated description
The Four Stages of Cruelty is a series of moralizing engravings by William Hogarth that graphically depict the progressive brutality and downfall of a cruel protagonist as a warning against animal and human cruelty.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Four Stages of Cruelty
Target entity description: The Four Stages of Cruelty is a series of moralizing engravings by William Hogarth that graphically depict the progressive brutality and downfall of a cruel protagonist as a warning against animal and human cruelty.
  • A. The Art of Cruelty
    The Art of Cruelty is a critical work of cultural theory in which Maggie Nelson examines representations of violence and suffering in art, film, and literature, questioning their ethical and aesthetic implications.
  • B. The Torture Garden
    The Torture Garden is a controversial 1899 decadent novel by French writer Octave Mirbeau that blends political satire, philosophical reflection, and graphic depictions of cruelty to critique Western civilization and authoritarian power.
  • C. The Vicious Kind
    The Vicious Kind is a 2009 dark comedy-drama film about a bitter, insomniac man whose life unravels when his younger brother brings home a new girlfriend for Thanksgiving.
  • D. Contes cruels
    Contes cruels is a celebrated collection of fantastical and macabre short stories by French symbolist writer Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, noted for its dark irony and philosophical pessimism.
  • E. The Slaughter Pen
    The Slaughter Pen is a rocky, boulder-strewn area on the Gettysburg battlefield known for its intense and deadly close-quarters fighting during the Battle of Gettysburg.
  • 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_69d87f1c65e48190aa2b4c472e9bafc4 completed April 10, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e21d9376fc8190bd9ef586b00c1d3b completed April 17, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fff2b9322c8190a773681679f9ad79 completed May 10, 2026, 2:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fff39371648190b3f694df00ff4f3e completed May 10, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fff47a52cc8190b0ad7c37ea444159 completed May 10, 2026, 2:59 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:01 a.m.