Triple

T2210347
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Portrait of a Lady E50901 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Madame Merle
Madame Merle is a sophisticated, manipulative socialite in Henry James’s novel "The Portrait of a Lady," known for her calculated influence over the heroine Isabel Archer.
E245574 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: Madame Merle | Statement: [The Portrait of a Lady, character, Madame Merle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Madame Merle
Context triple: [The Portrait of a Lady, character, Madame Merle]
  • A. Madame L'Espanaye
    Madame L'Espanaye is a fictional Parisian woman whose brutal and mysterious death forms the central crime investigated in Edgar Allan Poe's pioneering detective story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
  • B. Madame Mère
    Madame Mère was the honorific title of Letizia Ramolino, the mother of Napoleon Bonaparte and matriarch of the Bonaparte family.
  • C. Madame de Thianges
    Madame de Thianges was a French noblewoman of the 17th century, best known as the sister of Louis XIV’s famous mistress Madame de Montespan and a member of the influential House of Rochechouart.
  • D. Pierrette
    Pierrette is a French feminine given name, traditionally considered the female form of Pierre.
  • E. Madame Moitessier
    Madame Moitessier is a celebrated mid-19th-century portrait painting by French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, renowned for its meticulous detail and idealized depiction of bourgeois elegance.
  • 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: Madame Merle
Triple: [The Portrait of a Lady, character, Madame Merle]
Generated description
Madame Merle is a sophisticated, manipulative socialite in Henry James’s novel "The Portrait of a Lady," known for her calculated influence over the heroine Isabel Archer.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Madame Merle
Target entity description: Madame Merle is a sophisticated, manipulative socialite in Henry James’s novel "The Portrait of a Lady," known for her calculated influence over the heroine Isabel Archer.
  • A. Madame L'Espanaye
    Madame L'Espanaye is a fictional Parisian woman whose brutal and mysterious death forms the central crime investigated in Edgar Allan Poe's pioneering detective story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."
  • B. Madame Mère
    Madame Mère was the honorific title of Letizia Ramolino, the mother of Napoleon Bonaparte and matriarch of the Bonaparte family.
  • C. Madame de Thianges
    Madame de Thianges was a French noblewoman of the 17th century, best known as the sister of Louis XIV’s famous mistress Madame de Montespan and a member of the influential House of Rochechouart.
  • D. Pierrette
    Pierrette is a French feminine given name, traditionally considered the female form of Pierre.
  • E. Madame Moitessier
    Madame Moitessier is a celebrated mid-19th-century portrait painting by French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, renowned for its meticulous detail and idealized depiction of bourgeois elegance.
  • 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_69a88b06709c8190978fb2418470d1b6 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbfce5abc8190b90b92e32045385d completed March 7, 2026, 6:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae655045d081909b8294ec706e0814 completed March 9, 2026, 6:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae662f689881908ecd76952b78f863 completed March 9, 2026, 6:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae668ef8bc819085ed1c83f447d396 completed March 9, 2026, 6:19 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:46 p.m.