Triple

T2513815
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Bostonians E52761 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Basil Ransom
Basil Ransom is a conservative Mississippi lawyer and the central male protagonist in Henry James’s novel "The Bostonians," whose traditional views sharply contrast with the book’s feminist themes.
E275153 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: Basil Ransom | Statement: [The Bostonians, mainCharacter, Basil Ransom]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Basil Ransom
Context triple: [The Bostonians, mainCharacter, Basil Ransom]
  • A. Nathaniel Giles
    Nathaniel Giles was an English composer and church musician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known for his work with the Chapel Royal and involvement in early English theatre music.
  • B. Daniel Comstock
    Daniel Comstock was an American scientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Technicolor, a pioneering company in color motion picture technology.
  • C. Elias Loomis
    Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and physicist known for his work in astronomy, meteorology, and mathematical education.
  • D. Gulian McEvers
    Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • E. Basil March
    Basil March is the central character in William Dean Howells's novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," a reflective, middle-class editor whose experiences illuminate the social and cultural tensions of late 19th-century New York City.
  • 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: Basil Ransom
Triple: [The Bostonians, mainCharacter, Basil Ransom]
Generated description
Basil Ransom is a conservative Mississippi lawyer and the central male protagonist in Henry James’s novel "The Bostonians," whose traditional views sharply contrast with the book’s feminist themes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Basil Ransom
Target entity description: Basil Ransom is a conservative Mississippi lawyer and the central male protagonist in Henry James’s novel "The Bostonians," whose traditional views sharply contrast with the book’s feminist themes.
  • A. Nathaniel Giles
    Nathaniel Giles was an English composer and church musician of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, known for his work with the Chapel Royal and involvement in early English theatre music.
  • B. Daniel Comstock
    Daniel Comstock was an American scientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Technicolor, a pioneering company in color motion picture technology.
  • C. Elias Loomis
    Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and physicist known for his work in astronomy, meteorology, and mathematical education.
  • D. Gulian McEvers
    Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • E. Basil March
    Basil March is the central character in William Dean Howells's novel "A Hazard of New Fortunes," a reflective, middle-class editor whose experiences illuminate the social and cultural tensions of late 19th-century New York City.
  • 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_69ab4958e76481908a235377dd921c9e completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd20c8ab0819096d6a654039beb39 completed March 7, 2026, 7:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af2b934d3c81909627a5f4d6e6ca6a completed March 9, 2026, 8:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af4fd4f2a4819094b630cef9bfd8c4 completed March 9, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af502a3c5c819087d3e5798db53c38 completed March 9, 2026, 10:56 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:46 p.m.