Triple

T1842826
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Rise of Silas Lapham E41213 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Persis Lapham
Persis Lapham is a central figure in William Dean Howells’s realist novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," depicted as the morally grounded wife who provides emotional and ethical balance to her ambitious husband.
E389209 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: Persis Lapham | Statement: [The Rise of Silas Lapham, mainCharacter, Persis Lapham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Persis Lapham
Context triple: [The Rise of Silas Lapham, mainCharacter, Persis Lapham]
  • A. Phyllis Ames
    Phyllis Ames was the wife of Archibald Cox, the prominent American lawyer and Watergate special prosecutor.
  • B. Elizabeth Wendell
    Elizabeth Wendell was a colonial-era New England woman best known as the mother of Dorothy Quincy, who became the wife of American Founding Father John Hancock.
  • C. Edith Cushing
    Edith Cushing is the aspiring young American author and protagonist of Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic romance film "Crimson Peak," whose curiosity and independence draw her into a haunted English manor filled with dark family secrets.
  • D. Martha Hunt
    Martha Hunt is an American fashion model best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret, including serving as a Victoria’s Secret Angel.
  • E. Marian McAlpin
    Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
  • 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: Persis Lapham
Triple: [The Rise of Silas Lapham, mainCharacter, Persis Lapham]
Generated description
Persis Lapham is a central figure in William Dean Howells’s realist novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," depicted as the morally grounded wife who provides emotional and ethical balance to her ambitious husband.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Persis Lapham
Target entity description: Persis Lapham is a central figure in William Dean Howells’s realist novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," depicted as the morally grounded wife who provides emotional and ethical balance to her ambitious husband.
  • A. Phyllis Ames
    Phyllis Ames was the wife of Archibald Cox, the prominent American lawyer and Watergate special prosecutor.
  • B. Elizabeth Wendell
    Elizabeth Wendell was a colonial-era New England woman best known as the mother of Dorothy Quincy, who became the wife of American Founding Father John Hancock.
  • C. Edith Cushing
    Edith Cushing is the aspiring young American author and protagonist of Guillermo del Toro’s Gothic romance film "Crimson Peak," whose curiosity and independence draw her into a haunted English manor filled with dark family secrets.
  • D. Martha Hunt
    Martha Hunt is an American fashion model best known for her work with Victoria’s Secret, including serving as a Victoria’s Secret Angel.
  • E. Marian McAlpin
    Marian McAlpin is the conflicted young protagonist of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Edible Woman," whose growing aversion to food mirrors her anxiety about identity, gender roles, and societal expectations.
  • 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_69b4f00348bc819090bdcc17f8b77c7f completed March 14, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4f41c63788190a6b8b6a71d49b5ac completed March 14, 2026, 5:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4f4b218a08190802079fff249deb6 completed March 14, 2026, 5:40 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.