Triple
T21624493
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Billy Budd |
E533661
|
entity |
| Predicate | principalCharacter |
P9202
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Captain Edward Fairfax Vere |
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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: Captain Edward Fairfax Vere | Statement: [Billy Budd, principalCharacter, Captain Edward Fairfax Vere]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Edward Fairfax Vere Context triple: [Billy Budd, principalCharacter, Captain Edward Fairfax Vere]
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A.
Captain Edward Fairfax Vere
chosen
Captain Edward Fairfax Vere is the morally conflicted naval commander in Herman Melville’s novella "Billy Budd," whose strict adherence to martial law leads him to condemn the innocent sailor Billy.
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B.
Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour
Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour was a British Royal Navy officer and admiral best known for leading the naval forces during the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War, including the bombardment of Alexandria.
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C.
Viscount Melville
Viscount Melville is a Scottish peerage title historically associated with Henry Dundas, an influential late 18th- and early 19th-century British politician and statesman.
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D.
Lord Harris
Lord Harris is a British cricket administrator and politician best known for serving as chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
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E.
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead is a British Army officer historically known for his role in the 1879 Battle of Rorke’s Drift, famously portrayed as a central figure in the war film "Zulu."
- 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_69e0c464fba881908d0ff2ac80511ce1 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ef52121c3c8190b9b4d862ed247c71 |
completed | April 27, 2026, 12:09 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:34 p.m.