Triple

T2210393
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Ambassadors E50902 entity
Predicate protagonist P268 FINISHED
Object Lewis Lambert Strether
Lewis Lambert Strether is the reflective, middle-aged central character of Henry James’s novel "The Ambassadors," whose moral and psychological journey in Europe explores themes of duty, desire, and self-discovery.
E245582 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: Lewis Lambert Strether | Statement: [The Ambassadors, protagonist, Lewis Lambert Strether]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lewis Lambert Strether
Context triple: [The Ambassadors, protagonist, Lewis Lambert Strether]
  • A. Jervis Langdon
    Jervis Langdon was a wealthy 19th-century American coal businessman and abolitionist from Elmira, New York, best known as the father of Olivia Langdon Clemens, the wife of author Mark Twain.
  • B. Henry Harwood
    Henry Harwood was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for leading the successful pursuit and engagement of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee during World War II.
  • C. Arthur Winslow
    Arthur Winslow is the principled Edwardian father in Terence Rattigan’s play "The Winslow Boy," who risks his family’s security to clear his son’s name.
  • D. Franklin Evans
    Franklin Evans was an early 20th-century figure associated with polar exploration and research, recognized for his role in establishing the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, England.
  • E. Hosea Biglow
    Hosea Biglow is a fictional New England farmer and dialect-speaking narrator created by James Russell Lowell to satirize politics and society in "The Biglow Papers."
  • 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: Lewis Lambert Strether
Triple: [The Ambassadors, protagonist, Lewis Lambert Strether]
Generated description
Lewis Lambert Strether is the reflective, middle-aged central character of Henry James’s novel "The Ambassadors," whose moral and psychological journey in Europe explores themes of duty, desire, and self-discovery.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lewis Lambert Strether
Target entity description: Lewis Lambert Strether is the reflective, middle-aged central character of Henry James’s novel "The Ambassadors," whose moral and psychological journey in Europe explores themes of duty, desire, and self-discovery.
  • A. Jervis Langdon
    Jervis Langdon was a wealthy 19th-century American coal businessman and abolitionist from Elmira, New York, best known as the father of Olivia Langdon Clemens, the wife of author Mark Twain.
  • B. Henry Harwood
    Henry Harwood was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for leading the successful pursuit and engagement of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee during World War II.
  • C. Arthur Winslow
    Arthur Winslow is the principled Edwardian father in Terence Rattigan’s play "The Winslow Boy," who risks his family’s security to clear his son’s name.
  • D. Franklin Evans
    Franklin Evans was an early 20th-century figure associated with polar exploration and research, recognized for his role in establishing the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, England.
  • E. Hosea Biglow
    Hosea Biglow is a fictional New England farmer and dialect-speaking narrator created by James Russell Lowell to satirize politics and society in "The Biglow Papers."
  • 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_69abbfeb889081908cddf58a57b216df completed March 7, 2026, 6:04 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.