Triple
T18902775
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Tongues of Serpents |
E462376
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Laurence |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: William Laurence | Statement: [Tongues of Serpents, mainCharacter, William Laurence]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Laurence Context triple: [Tongues of Serpents, mainCharacter, William Laurence]
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A.
William Laurence
chosen
William Laurence is a principled British naval captain turned dragon aviator who serves as the central human protagonist in Naomi Novik’s Temeraire fantasy series.
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B.
Lester Alvin Burnett
Lester Alvin Burnett, better known as Smiley Burnette, was an American country music performer, songwriter, and comic actor famed for his sidekick roles in Western films and early television.
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C.
Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
Robert Joseph Pershing Foster was an African American physician whose migration from the Jim Crow South to California is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s book *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
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D.
William Everett Preston
William Everett Preston was an American musician, singer, and songwriter renowned for his virtuoso keyboard work and collaborations with artists such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
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E.
William Christopher
William Christopher was an American actor best known for playing the gentle and compassionate Father Mulcahy on the television series M*A*S*H.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69d8dcfd05bc819088903cca13cc2846 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5c52a4b4c8190b5821996e3c1741d |
completed | April 20, 2026, 6:18 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:58 a.m.