Triple
T16237793
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Biographer’s Tale |
E394159
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Phineas G. Nanson
Phineas G. Nanson is the inquisitive graduate student protagonist of A.S. Byatt’s novel "The Biographer’s Tale," whose research into a mysterious biographer leads him into a labyrinth of lives, texts, and identities.
|
E1202805
|
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: Phineas G. Nanson | Statement: [The Biographer’s Tale, mainCharacter, Phineas G. Nanson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Phineas G. Nanson Context triple: [The Biographer’s Tale, mainCharacter, Phineas G. Nanson]
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A.
George A. Reid
George A. Reid is a mathematician known for supervising the doctoral work of prominent symplectic topologist Dusa McDuff.
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B.
James Sansbury
James Sansbury is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the software company Altera.
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C.
James Sansbury
James Sansbury is an individual whose specific public background or notable achievements are not clearly identifiable from the given information.
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D.
Alfred Clark
Alfred Clark was an early film pioneer and director known for creating one of the first cinematic special effects in the short silent film "The Execution of Mary Stuart."
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E.
William Gisborne
William Gisborne was a 19th-century New Zealand politician and public administrator who served as Colonial Secretary and played a key role in the development of the colony’s government.
- 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: Phineas G. Nanson Triple: [The Biographer’s Tale, mainCharacter, Phineas G. Nanson]
Generated description
Phineas G. Nanson is the inquisitive graduate student protagonist of A.S. Byatt’s novel "The Biographer’s Tale," whose research into a mysterious biographer leads him into a labyrinth of lives, texts, and identities.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Phineas G. Nanson Target entity description: Phineas G. Nanson is the inquisitive graduate student protagonist of A.S. Byatt’s novel "The Biographer’s Tale," whose research into a mysterious biographer leads him into a labyrinth of lives, texts, and identities.
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A.
George A. Reid
George A. Reid is a mathematician known for supervising the doctoral work of prominent symplectic topologist Dusa McDuff.
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B.
James Sansbury
James Sansbury is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the software company Altera.
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C.
James Sansbury
James Sansbury is an individual whose specific public background or notable achievements are not clearly identifiable from the given information.
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D.
Alfred Clark
Alfred Clark was an early film pioneer and director known for creating one of the first cinematic special effects in the short silent film "The Execution of Mary Stuart."
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E.
William Gisborne
William Gisborne was a 19th-century New Zealand politician and public administrator who served as Colonial Secretary and played a key role in the development of the colony’s government.
- 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.