Triple

T2021682
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United States Custom House in Salem E44117 entity
Predicate inspiredWork P1994 FINISHED
Object “The Custom-House” introduction to “The Scarlet Letter”
“The Custom-House” introduction to “The Scarlet Letter” is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s semi-autobiographical preface that blends personal reflection, local history, and satire to frame and contextualize the main novel.
E225246 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: “The Custom-House” introduction to “The Scarlet Letter” | Statement: [United States Custom House in Salem, inspiredWork, “The Custom-House” introduction to “The Scarlet Letter”]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “The Custom-House” introduction to “The Scarlet Letter”
Context triple: [United States Custom House in Salem, inspiredWork, “The Custom-House” introduction to “The Scarlet Letter”]
  • A. The Scarlet Letter
    The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores sin, guilt, and social judgment in a 17th-century Puritan community through the story of Hester Prynne and the emblematic letter "A" she is forced to wear.
  • B. The House of the Seven Gables
    The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of guilt, retribution, and inherited sin through the history of a cursed New England family and their ancestral mansion.
  • C. The House of the Seven Gables
    The House of the Seven Gables is a historic 17th-century mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, best known as the setting and inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel of the same name.
  • D. The Minister’s Black Veil
    The Minister’s Black Veil is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of sin, guilt, and isolation through the mysterious decision of a New England minister to permanently cover his face with a black veil.
  • E. The Bostonians
    The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James that explores post–Civil War American society through a satirical examination of feminism, reform movements, and complex personal relationships in Boston.
  • 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: “The Custom-House” introduction to “The Scarlet Letter”
Triple: [United States Custom House in Salem, inspiredWork, “The Custom-House” introduction to “The Scarlet Letter”]
Generated description
“The Custom-House” introduction to “The Scarlet Letter” is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s semi-autobiographical preface that blends personal reflection, local history, and satire to frame and contextualize the main novel.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: “The Custom-House” introduction to “The Scarlet Letter”
Target entity description: “The Custom-House” introduction to “The Scarlet Letter” is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s semi-autobiographical preface that blends personal reflection, local history, and satire to frame and contextualize the main novel.
  • A. The Scarlet Letter
    The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores sin, guilt, and social judgment in a 17th-century Puritan community through the story of Hester Prynne and the emblematic letter "A" she is forced to wear.
  • B. The House of the Seven Gables
    The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of guilt, retribution, and inherited sin through the history of a cursed New England family and their ancestral mansion.
  • C. The House of the Seven Gables
    The House of the Seven Gables is a historic 17th-century mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, best known as the setting and inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel of the same name.
  • D. The Minister’s Black Veil
    The Minister’s Black Veil is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of sin, guilt, and isolation through the mysterious decision of a New England minister to permanently cover his face with a black veil.
  • E. The Bostonians
    The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James that explores post–Civil War American society through a satirical examination of feminism, reform movements, and complex personal relationships in Boston.
  • 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_69a8891201bc8190aca837be6de41579 completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb8efbe148190901d3650aa60408a completed March 7, 2026, 5:34 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae0af60fac8190bc8c8a212a422305 completed March 8, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae0b8bd2bc8190a6f16519f3f6e924 completed March 8, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae0bf5364c8190bffbbd211a5e11a6 completed March 8, 2026, 11:53 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.