Triple
T16571595
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sarah Austin |
E402600
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entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Life of Lord Macaulay (translator or editor of German materials)
Life of Lord Macaulay (translator or editor of German materials) is a biographical work about the British historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, produced by the English translator and editor Sarah Austin.
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E1221342
|
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: Life of Lord Macaulay (translator or editor of German materials) | Statement: [Sarah Austin, notableWork, Life of Lord Macaulay (translator or editor of German materials)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life of Lord Macaulay (translator or editor of German materials) Context triple: [Sarah Austin, notableWork, Life of Lord Macaulay (translator or editor of German materials)]
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A.
Charles Macaulay
Charles Macaulay is one of the morally conflicted classics students whose involvement in murder drives the psychological and philosophical tensions at the heart of Donna Tartt’s novel *The Secret History*.
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B.
William Smith (translator)
William Smith was a Scottish classical scholar and translator, best known for his English translations of ancient Greek texts.
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C.
James Legge
James Legge was a 19th-century Scottish sinologist, missionary, and pioneering translator of the Chinese classics into English.
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D.
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle was a 19th-century Scottish historian, essayist, and social critic known for his influential works on heroism, history, and the moral crises of industrial society.
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E.
William P. Lecky
William P. Lecky was an architect best known for designing the United States Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- 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: Life of Lord Macaulay (translator or editor of German materials) Triple: [Sarah Austin, notableWork, Life of Lord Macaulay (translator or editor of German materials)]
Generated description
Life of Lord Macaulay (translator or editor of German materials) is a biographical work about the British historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, produced by the English translator and editor Sarah Austin.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life of Lord Macaulay (translator or editor of German materials) Target entity description: Life of Lord Macaulay (translator or editor of German materials) is a biographical work about the British historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, produced by the English translator and editor Sarah Austin.
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A.
Charles Macaulay
Charles Macaulay is one of the morally conflicted classics students whose involvement in murder drives the psychological and philosophical tensions at the heart of Donna Tartt’s novel *The Secret History*.
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B.
William Smith (translator)
William Smith was a Scottish classical scholar and translator, best known for his English translations of ancient Greek texts.
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C.
James Legge
James Legge was a 19th-century Scottish sinologist, missionary, and pioneering translator of the Chinese classics into English.
-
D.
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle was a 19th-century Scottish historian, essayist, and social critic known for his influential works on heroism, history, and the moral crises of industrial society.
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E.
William P. Lecky
William P. Lecky was an architect best known for designing the United States Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- 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_69d8838648088190acf97ef11fc3f61b |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e35958d49c8190b995188240fb355b |
completed | April 18, 2026, 10:13 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a006ee8812c81908ef74636bf39d44a |
completed | May 10, 2026, 11:41 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a0070024cb4819092ee0ce1320f0905 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 11:46 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a00707959a081909fc04947624abbe5 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 11:48 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:16 a.m.