Triple

T16780352
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Age of Innocence E407840 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object May Welland
May Welland is a central character in Edith Wharton's novel "The Age of Innocence," embodying the ideals, constraints, and quiet power of upper-class New York society in the 1870s.
E1234072 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: May Welland | Statement: [The Age of Innocence, mainCharacter, May Welland]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: May Welland
Context triple: [The Age of Innocence, mainCharacter, May Welland]
  • A. Adria Fanny Heath
    Adria Fanny Heath was the mother of Lord Chelmsford, a British peer and colonial administrator.
  • B. Lally Weymouth
    Lally Weymouth is an American journalist and editor known for her high-profile political interviews and as a prominent member of the family that long owned The Washington Post.
  • C. Helen Decatur
    Helen Decatur is a driven, compassionate attorney and one of the three central friends navigating love, career, and community life in the Netflix drama series "Sweet Magnolias."
  • D. Mary Skipper
    Mary Skipper is an American educator and administrator who serves as the leader of the Boston Public Schools district.
  • E. Catharina Livingston
    Catharina Livingston was a member of the prominent Livingston family of colonial New York and the mother of patroon and politician Stephen Van Rensselaer.
  • 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: May Welland
Triple: [The Age of Innocence, mainCharacter, May Welland]
Generated description
May Welland is a central character in Edith Wharton's novel "The Age of Innocence," embodying the ideals, constraints, and quiet power of upper-class New York society in the 1870s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: May Welland
Target entity description: May Welland is a central character in Edith Wharton's novel "The Age of Innocence," embodying the ideals, constraints, and quiet power of upper-class New York society in the 1870s.
  • A. Adria Fanny Heath
    Adria Fanny Heath was the mother of Lord Chelmsford, a British peer and colonial administrator.
  • B. Lally Weymouth
    Lally Weymouth is an American journalist and editor known for her high-profile political interviews and as a prominent member of the family that long owned The Washington Post.
  • C. Helen Decatur
    Helen Decatur is a driven, compassionate attorney and one of the three central friends navigating love, career, and community life in the Netflix drama series "Sweet Magnolias."
  • D. Mary Skipper
    Mary Skipper is an American educator and administrator who serves as the leader of the Boston Public Schools district.
  • E. Catharina Livingston
    Catharina Livingston was a member of the prominent Livingston family of colonial New York and the mother of patroon and politician Stephen Van Rensselaer.
  • 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_6a00ab0300e48190ad088cd11098ca34 completed May 10, 2026, 3:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00aba5fb388190ab98a0c8ee50340b completed May 10, 2026, 4 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00ac54a11c81909afe9244e9fe0656 completed May 10, 2026, 4:03 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:22 a.m.