Triple

T16780122
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ E407834 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object James Wait
James Wait is the enigmatic, ailing black sailor whose presence and ambiguous illness drive the moral and psychological tensions aboard ship in Joseph Conrad’s novel *The Nigger of the “Narcissus”*.
 E1233813 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: James Wait | Statement: [The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, mainCharacter, James Wait]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Wait
Context triple: [The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, mainCharacter, James Wait]
  • A. Marcus Waite
    Marcus Waite is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Waite.
  • B. Charles Wylie
    Charles Wylie was a British mountaineer and army officer known for his role in early post-war Himalayan expeditions, including the 1953 British attempt on Mount Everest.
  • C. Joseph Wightman
    Joseph Wightman was a British Army officer best known for commanding government forces against the Jacobites during the early 18th-century uprisings.
  • D. William Eldridge
    William Eldridge is a person notable enough to be recognized as a primary bearer of the surname Eldridge, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly established.
  • E. John Tait
    John Tait is known primarily as the husband of Katharine Tait, the daughter of philosopher Bertrand Russell.
  • 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: James Wait
Triple: [The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, mainCharacter, James Wait]
Generated description
James Wait is the enigmatic, ailing black sailor whose presence and ambiguous illness drive the moral and psychological tensions aboard ship in Joseph Conrad’s novel *The Nigger of the “Narcissus”*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Wait
Target entity description: James Wait is the enigmatic, ailing black sailor whose presence and ambiguous illness drive the moral and psychological tensions aboard ship in Joseph Conrad’s novel *The Nigger of the “Narcissus”*.
  • A. Marcus Waite
    Marcus Waite is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Waite.
  • B. Charles Wylie
    Charles Wylie was a British mountaineer and army officer known for his role in early post-war Himalayan expeditions, including the 1953 British attempt on Mount Everest.
  • C. Joseph Wightman
    Joseph Wightman was a British Army officer best known for commanding government forces against the Jacobites during the early 18th-century uprisings.
  • D. William Eldridge
    William Eldridge is a person notable enough to be recognized as a primary bearer of the surname Eldridge, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly established.
  • E. John Tait
    John Tait is known primarily as the husband of Katharine Tait, the daughter of philosopher Bertrand Russell.
  • 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_69d8839270588190886720d9519bbf8f completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3b214cebc81909de80e74b4bac5f8 completed April 18, 2026, 4:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00ab00cf708190a2562fa14d72a4df completed May 10, 2026, 3:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00ad66a9a88190983eee72f9d23e37 completed May 10, 2026, 4:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00addf7674819084f5755c2dacc741 completed May 10, 2026, 4:10 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:22 a.m.