Triple

T2513816
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Bostonians E52761 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Verena Tarrant
Verena Tarrant is a central character in Henry James's novel "The Bostonians," portrayed as a young, charismatic feminist orator caught between personal freedom and the competing ambitions of those around her.
E275154 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: Verena Tarrant | Statement: [The Bostonians, mainCharacter, Verena Tarrant]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Verena Tarrant
Context triple: [The Bostonians, mainCharacter, Verena Tarrant]
  • A. Grace Marks
    Grace Marks is the enigmatic Irish-Canadian servant and convicted murderess at the center of Margaret Atwood’s historical novel "Alias Grace."
  • B. Elizabeth Barker
    Elizabeth Barker was the wife of Mayflower passenger and early Plymouth Colony leader Edward Winslow, making her part of the first generation of English settlers in New England.
  • C. Antonia Hitchens
    Antonia Hitchens is a journalist and writer, known for her reported features and essays in publications such as The New Yorker and The New York Times.
  • D. Beatrice Warren
    Beatrice Warren was a physicist whose contributions to the field of diffraction physics were significant enough to have a prestigious scientific award named in her honor.
  • E. Magdalene Shaw
    Magdalene Shaw is a sharp-witted, tough matriarch and career criminal in the Fast & Furious franchise, known as the mother of Deckard and Owen Shaw.
  • 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: Verena Tarrant
Triple: [The Bostonians, mainCharacter, Verena Tarrant]
Generated description
Verena Tarrant is a central character in Henry James's novel "The Bostonians," portrayed as a young, charismatic feminist orator caught between personal freedom and the competing ambitions of those around her.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Verena Tarrant
Target entity description: Verena Tarrant is a central character in Henry James's novel "The Bostonians," portrayed as a young, charismatic feminist orator caught between personal freedom and the competing ambitions of those around her.
  • A. Grace Marks
    Grace Marks is the enigmatic Irish-Canadian servant and convicted murderess at the center of Margaret Atwood’s historical novel "Alias Grace."
  • B. Elizabeth Barker
    Elizabeth Barker was the wife of Mayflower passenger and early Plymouth Colony leader Edward Winslow, making her part of the first generation of English settlers in New England.
  • C. Antonia Hitchens
    Antonia Hitchens is a journalist and writer, known for her reported features and essays in publications such as The New Yorker and The New York Times.
  • D. Beatrice Warren
    Beatrice Warren was a physicist whose contributions to the field of diffraction physics were significant enough to have a prestigious scientific award named in her honor.
  • E. Magdalene Shaw
    Magdalene Shaw is a sharp-witted, tough matriarch and career criminal in the Fast & Furious franchise, known as the mother of Deckard and Owen Shaw.
  • 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.