Triple

T1842827
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Rise of Silas Lapham E41213 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Penelope Lapham
Penelope Lapham is a central character in William Dean Howells's realist novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," known for her intelligence, moral integrity, and complex romantic entanglements within a socially ambitious Boston family.
E206000 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: Penelope Lapham | Statement: [The Rise of Silas Lapham, mainCharacter, Penelope Lapham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Penelope Lapham
Context triple: [The Rise of Silas Lapham, mainCharacter, Penelope Lapham]
  • A. Louise Tracy
    Louise Tracy is the daughter of acclaimed American actor Spencer Tracy.
  • B. Helen Dinsmore Huntington
    Helen Dinsmore Huntington was an American socialite and arts patron from a prominent New York family, best known for her influential role in early 20th-century high society and cultural philanthropy.
  • C. Mrs. Brady
    Mrs. Brady is a minor character in the play "Inherit the Wind," depicted as the supportive and traditional wife of the fundamentalist prosecutor Matthew Harrison Brady.
  • D. Victorine Haven Putnam
    Victorine Haven Putnam was the first wife of American publisher and explorer George Palmer Putnam, connected to the prominent Putnam publishing family.
  • E. Sophia Peabody
    Sophia Peabody was a 19th-century American painter, illustrator, and writer associated with the Transcendentalist circle and known for her intellectual partnership with Nathaniel Hawthorne.
  • 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: Penelope Lapham
Triple: [The Rise of Silas Lapham, mainCharacter, Penelope Lapham]
Generated description
Penelope Lapham is a central character in William Dean Howells's realist novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," known for her intelligence, moral integrity, and complex romantic entanglements within a socially ambitious Boston family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Penelope Lapham
Target entity description: Penelope Lapham is a central character in William Dean Howells's realist novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," known for her intelligence, moral integrity, and complex romantic entanglements within a socially ambitious Boston family.
  • A. Louise Tracy
    Louise Tracy is the daughter of acclaimed American actor Spencer Tracy.
  • B. Helen Dinsmore Huntington
    Helen Dinsmore Huntington was an American socialite and arts patron from a prominent New York family, best known for her influential role in early 20th-century high society and cultural philanthropy.
  • C. Mrs. Brady
    Mrs. Brady is a minor character in the play "Inherit the Wind," depicted as the supportive and traditional wife of the fundamentalist prosecutor Matthew Harrison Brady.
  • D. Victorine Haven Putnam
    Victorine Haven Putnam was the first wife of American publisher and explorer George Palmer Putnam, connected to the prominent Putnam publishing family.
  • E. Sophia Peabody
    Sophia Peabody was a 19th-century American painter, illustrator, and writer associated with the Transcendentalist circle and known for her intellectual partnership with Nathaniel Hawthorne.
  • 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.