Triple
T16780149
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ |
E407834
|
entity |
| Predicate | containsCharacter |
P5716
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James Wait |
E1233813
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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’, containsCharacter, 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’, containsCharacter, James Wait]
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A.
James Wait
chosen
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”*.
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B.
Samuel Wait
Samuel Wait was an individual significant enough in local or regional history that the town of Waitsfield, Vermont, was named in his honor.
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C.
Marcus Waite
Marcus Waite is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Waite.
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D.
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.
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E.
Joseph Wightman
Joseph Wightman was a British Army officer best known for commanding government forces against the Jacobites during the early 18th-century uprisings.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_6a00b287a96c8190a16d7c76d05be106 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 4:29 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:22 a.m.