Triple
T19754965
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Cryptonomicon |
E474478
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse |
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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: Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse | Statement: [Cryptonomicon, mainCharacter, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse Context triple: [Cryptonomicon, mainCharacter, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse]
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A.
William Claude Dukenfield
William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W. C. Fields, was a famed American comedian, actor, and writer renowned for his misanthropic persona, distinctive drawl, and influential work in early 20th-century vaudeville and film comedy.
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B.
Lancelot Hodgkin
Lancelot Hodgkin is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Hodgkin surname, though specific widely known achievements or biographical details are not well documented.
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C.
Francis Crawford Burkitt
Francis Crawford Burkitt was a British biblical scholar and theologian known for his influential work on early Christian texts and Syriac manuscripts.
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D.
Edward Darley Boit
Edward Darley Boit was a 19th-century American lawyer and art collector best known today as the father of the four girls depicted in John Singer Sargent’s famous painting "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit."
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E.
Frederick Treves
Frederick Treves is the compassionate Victorian surgeon who befriends and cares for Joseph Merrick in the story of "The Elephant Man."
- 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: Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse Target entity description: Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse is a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician and cryptanalyst whose World War II codebreaking work and later technological ventures form a central narrative thread in Neal Stephenson’s novel "Cryptonomicon."
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A.
William Claude Dukenfield
William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W. C. Fields, was a famed American comedian, actor, and writer renowned for his misanthropic persona, distinctive drawl, and influential work in early 20th-century vaudeville and film comedy.
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B.
Lancelot Hodgkin
Lancelot Hodgkin is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Hodgkin surname, though specific widely known achievements or biographical details are not well documented.
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C.
Francis Crawford Burkitt
Francis Crawford Burkitt was a British biblical scholar and theologian known for his influential work on early Christian texts and Syriac manuscripts.
-
D.
Edward Darley Boit
Edward Darley Boit was a 19th-century American lawyer and art collector best known today as the father of the four girls depicted in John Singer Sargent’s famous painting "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit."
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E.
Frederick Treves
Frederick Treves is the compassionate Victorian surgeon who befriends and cares for Joseph Merrick in the story of "The Elephant Man."
- 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_69d8e51940a0819087bd2996f98da668 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6529dada081909c5b4d65247c6032 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 4:21 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:48 p.m.