Triple

T16780410
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Custom of the Country E407841 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Elmer Spragg
Elmer Spragg is a wealthy, socially ambitious American businessman who appears as a key supporting character in Edith Wharton’s novel "The Custom of the Country."
E1249026 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: Elmer Spragg | Statement: [The Custom of the Country, hasCharacter, Elmer Spragg]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elmer Spragg
Context triple: [The Custom of the Country, hasCharacter, Elmer Spragg]
  • A. Elmer Smith
    Elmer Smith was an American Major League Baseball outfielder best known for hitting the first grand slam in World Series history during the 1920 Fall Classic.
  • B. Elmer Clifton
    Elmer Clifton was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor active from the silent era into the mid-20th century, known for his work on low-budget and exploitation films.
  • C. Elmer Winter
    Elmer Winter was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Manpower Inc., one of the world’s largest staffing and workforce solutions companies.
  • D. Elmer Harris
    Elmer Harris is a creator known for his work associated with Belinda McDonald.
  • E. Elmer Booth
    Elmer Booth was an early 20th-century American silent film actor known for his dynamic performances in pioneering gangster and crime dramas.
  • 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: Elmer Spragg
Triple: [The Custom of the Country, hasCharacter, Elmer Spragg]
Generated description
Elmer Spragg is a wealthy, socially ambitious American businessman who appears as a key supporting character in Edith Wharton’s novel "The Custom of the Country."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elmer Spragg
Target entity description: Elmer Spragg is a wealthy, socially ambitious American businessman who appears as a key supporting character in Edith Wharton’s novel "The Custom of the Country."
  • A. Elmer Smith
    Elmer Smith was an American Major League Baseball outfielder best known for hitting the first grand slam in World Series history during the 1920 Fall Classic.
  • B. Elmer Clifton
    Elmer Clifton was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor active from the silent era into the mid-20th century, known for his work on low-budget and exploitation films.
  • C. Elmer Winter
    Elmer Winter was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Manpower Inc., one of the world’s largest staffing and workforce solutions companies.
  • D. Elmer Harris
    Elmer Harris is a creator known for his work associated with Belinda McDonald.
  • E. Elmer Booth
    Elmer Booth was an early 20th-century American silent film actor known for his dynamic performances in pioneering gangster and crime dramas.
  • 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_6a012ec7a4a48190802061e5cd634ea3 completed May 11, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0130716ad08190a05ac03f60076b11 completed May 11, 2026, 1:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0130dbe1f8819095b2d36882bf3287 completed May 11, 2026, 1:29 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:22 a.m.