Triple
T1842825
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Rise of Silas Lapham |
E41213
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Silas Lapham
Silas Lapham is a self-made American paint magnate whose moral and social struggles in Gilded Age Boston form the center of William Dean Howells’s realist novel.
|
E205999
|
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: Silas Lapham | Statement: [The Rise of Silas Lapham, mainCharacter, Silas Lapham]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silas Lapham Context triple: [The Rise of Silas Lapham, mainCharacter, Silas Lapham]
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A.
Silas Phelps
Silas Phelps is a kindly but morally conflicted Southern farmer and slave owner who appears as Tom Sawyer’s uncle in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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B.
William Wilson
William Wilson was a Scottish artist renowned for his stained glass, printmaking, and architectural sculpture in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Elias Loomis
Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and physicist known for his work in astronomy, meteorology, and mathematical education.
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D.
Henry Schultz
Henry Schultz was an American economist and early pioneer of econometrics, known for his influential work on demand analysis and for helping establish econometrics as a rigorous quantitative discipline.
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E.
Mr. Sands
Mr. Sands is a white slaveholder and the complex, often morally ambiguous love interest of the narrator in Harriet Jacobs’s autobiographical slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
- 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: Silas Lapham Triple: [The Rise of Silas Lapham, mainCharacter, Silas Lapham]
Generated description
Silas Lapham is a self-made American paint magnate whose moral and social struggles in Gilded Age Boston form the center of William Dean Howells’s realist novel.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silas Lapham Target entity description: Silas Lapham is a self-made American paint magnate whose moral and social struggles in Gilded Age Boston form the center of William Dean Howells’s realist novel.
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A.
Silas Phelps
Silas Phelps is a kindly but morally conflicted Southern farmer and slave owner who appears as Tom Sawyer’s uncle in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
-
B.
William Wilson
William Wilson was a Scottish artist renowned for his stained glass, printmaking, and architectural sculpture in the mid-20th century.
-
C.
Elias Loomis
Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and physicist known for his work in astronomy, meteorology, and mathematical education.
-
D.
Henry Schultz
Henry Schultz was an American economist and early pioneer of econometrics, known for his influential work on demand analysis and for helping establish econometrics as a rigorous quantitative discipline.
-
E.
Mr. Sands
Mr. Sands is a white slaveholder and the complex, often morally ambiguous love interest of the narrator in Harriet Jacobs’s autobiographical slave narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
- 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_69a88648cd44819093303206d96d76ad |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abb04eb0748190b226f932e544925f |
completed | March 7, 2026, 4:57 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69adc9be1ef481909cd6f6975bf2165d |
completed | March 8, 2026, 7:10 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69adcaf1917c819090eac27de62494ca |
completed | March 8, 2026, 7:16 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69adcbba64588190aa0ebd2b6f67afa7 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.