Triple

T16237589
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Virgin in the Garden E394154 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Alexander Wedderburn
Alexander Wedderburn is the intellectually ambitious, emotionally reserved schoolteacher who serves as the central figure in A. S. Byatt’s novel "The Virgin in the Garden," around whom the book’s family and artistic tensions revolve.
E1202795 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: Alexander Wedderburn | Statement: [The Virgin in the Garden, mainCharacter, Alexander Wedderburn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Wedderburn
Context triple: [The Virgin in the Garden, mainCharacter, Alexander Wedderburn]
  • A. Alexander Wedderburn
    Alexander Wedderburn was an 18th-century Scottish lawyer and politician who became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and was influential in Edinburgh’s intellectual and legal circles.
  • B. Joseph Wedderburn
    Joseph Wedderburn was a Scottish mathematician known for his foundational contributions to algebra, particularly in the development of ring theory and the structure theory of algebras.
  • C. Duncan Wedderburn
    Duncan Wedderburn is a flamboyant, hedonistic lawyer who serves as one of Bella Baxter’s main companions and antagonistic foils in the surreal, darkly comic world of "Poor Things."
  • D. Allan Ruthven
    Allan Ruthven was a celebrated Australian rules footballer of the mid-20th century, best known as a Brownlow Medal-winning star for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League.
  • E. Alexander Murray
    Alexander Murray was a 19th-century Canadian geologist noted for his pioneering geological surveys, including work that led to the identification of major mineral-rich structures such as the Sudbury Basin.
  • 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: Alexander Wedderburn
Triple: [The Virgin in the Garden, mainCharacter, Alexander Wedderburn]
Generated description
Alexander Wedderburn is the intellectually ambitious, emotionally reserved schoolteacher who serves as the central figure in A. S. Byatt’s novel "The Virgin in the Garden," around whom the book’s family and artistic tensions revolve.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Wedderburn
Target entity description: Alexander Wedderburn is the intellectually ambitious, emotionally reserved schoolteacher who serves as the central figure in A. S. Byatt’s novel "The Virgin in the Garden," around whom the book’s family and artistic tensions revolve.
  • A. Alexander Wedderburn
    Alexander Wedderburn was an 18th-century Scottish lawyer and politician who became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and was influential in Edinburgh’s intellectual and legal circles.
  • B. Joseph Wedderburn
    Joseph Wedderburn was a Scottish mathematician known for his foundational contributions to algebra, particularly in the development of ring theory and the structure theory of algebras.
  • C. Duncan Wedderburn
    Duncan Wedderburn is a flamboyant, hedonistic lawyer who serves as one of Bella Baxter’s main companions and antagonistic foils in the surreal, darkly comic world of "Poor Things."
  • D. Allan Ruthven
    Allan Ruthven was a celebrated Australian rules footballer of the mid-20th century, best known as a Brownlow Medal-winning star for Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League.
  • E. Alexander Murray
    Alexander Murray was a 19th-century Canadian geologist noted for his pioneering geological surveys, including work that led to the identification of major mineral-rich structures such as the Sudbury Basin.
  • 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_69d87f2171208190951025e526947816 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e2455bb23881909c4cb4c1439d2bc5 completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a000edaf76c8190acc01f58845e570a completed May 10, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0011f7f3fc8190a3a3bf260b391e78 completed May 10, 2026, 5:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0012e9913481908ee5ada2fce507f4 completed May 10, 2026, 5:08 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:04 a.m.