Triple
T18488453
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Fifth Business |
E451751
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Percy Boyd Staunton |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Percy Boyd Staunton | Statement: [Fifth Business, mainCharacter, Percy Boyd Staunton]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Percy Boyd Staunton Context triple: [Fifth Business, mainCharacter, Percy Boyd Staunton]
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A.
Effingham Wilson
Effingham Wilson was a prominent 19th-century London publisher known for issuing works of literature, radical politics, and social reform.
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B.
Eaton L. Dickey
Eaton L. Dickey was an American diplomat who served as a U.S. ambassador, notably representing the United States in Panama.
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C.
Asa Tift
Asa Tift was a 19th-century Key West salvager and businessman whose former residence later became the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum.
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D.
Jesse E. Moorland
Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
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E.
William Burnham Woods
William Burnham Woods was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court in the late 19th century, known for his service during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Percy Boyd Staunton Target entity description: Percy Boyd Staunton is a wealthy, ambitious, and morally conflicted Canadian businessman whose actions and inner turmoil play a central role in Robertson Davies’ novel "Fifth Business."
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A.
Effingham Wilson
Effingham Wilson was a prominent 19th-century London publisher known for issuing works of literature, radical politics, and social reform.
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B.
Eaton L. Dickey
Eaton L. Dickey was an American diplomat who served as a U.S. ambassador, notably representing the United States in Panama.
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C.
Asa Tift
Asa Tift was a 19th-century Key West salvager and businessman whose former residence later became the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum.
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D.
Jesse E. Moorland
Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
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E.
William Burnham Woods
William Burnham Woods was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court in the late 19th century, known for his service during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 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_69d8d3855d50819097fc8561b0299dd9 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e531d8bac4819099306abbf78b9565 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 7:49 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:35 a.m.