Triple

T1842830
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Rise of Silas Lapham E41213 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Bromfield Corey
Bromfield Corey is a refined, aristocratic Bostonian whose old-money values and social world contrast sharply with the nouveau-riche ambitions at the center of William Dean Howells’s novel.
E211479 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: Bromfield Corey | Statement: [The Rise of Silas Lapham, mainCharacter, Bromfield Corey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bromfield Corey
Context triple: [The Rise of Silas Lapham, mainCharacter, Bromfield Corey]
  • A. George Storrs
    George Storrs was a 19th-century American Christian preacher and writer known for his advocacy of conditional immortality and nontrinitarian views, which significantly shaped early Adventist and Bible Student theology.
  • B. Leonard Bleecker
    Leonard Bleecker was an early American broker and financier known for being among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • C. George Burroughs
    George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • D. Isidore Miller
    Isidore Miller was the father of American playwright Arthur Miller and a New York-based clothing manufacturer whose business was devastated by the Great Depression.
  • E. Edgar Bethune Ward
    Edgar Bethune Ward was the husband of American actress Jane Wyatt, known primarily for his long marriage to her rather than for a public career of his own.
  • 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: Bromfield Corey
Triple: [The Rise of Silas Lapham, mainCharacter, Bromfield Corey]
Generated description
Bromfield Corey is a refined, aristocratic Bostonian whose old-money values and social world contrast sharply with the nouveau-riche ambitions at the center of William Dean Howells’s novel.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bromfield Corey
Target entity description: Bromfield Corey is a refined, aristocratic Bostonian whose old-money values and social world contrast sharply with the nouveau-riche ambitions at the center of William Dean Howells’s novel.
  • A. George Storrs
    George Storrs was a 19th-century American Christian preacher and writer known for his advocacy of conditional immortality and nontrinitarian views, which significantly shaped early Adventist and Bible Student theology.
  • B. Leonard Bleecker
    Leonard Bleecker was an early American broker and financier known for being among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • C. George Burroughs
    George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • D. Isidore Miller
    Isidore Miller was the father of American playwright Arthur Miller and a New York-based clothing manufacturer whose business was devastated by the Great Depression.
  • E. Edgar Bethune Ward
    Edgar Bethune Ward was the husband of American actress Jane Wyatt, known primarily for his long marriage to her rather than for a public career of his own.
  • 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_69adead8e9148190b7cba0f325dc58c4 completed March 8, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adeb6e8fe08190a4732d42aa15ee8e completed March 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adebea03a08190bd055e3e6460b5f4 completed March 8, 2026, 9:36 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.