Triple

T2513818
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Bostonians E52761 entity
Predicate characterRole P268 FINISHED
Object Basil Ransom is a conservative Mississippi lawyer
Basil Ransom is a central fictional character in Henry James’s novel "The Bostonians," portrayed as a traditionalist Southern lawyer whose conservative views clash with the era’s emerging feminist and reformist movements.
 E275156 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 is a conservative Mississippi lawyer | Statement: [The Bostonians, characterRole, Basil Ransom is a conservative Mississippi lawyer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Basil Ransom is a conservative Mississippi lawyer
Context triple: [The Bostonians, characterRole, Basil Ransom is a conservative Mississippi lawyer]
  • A. Roy Moore
    Roy Moore is an American politician and former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court known for his controversial religiously motivated stances and high-profile legal and political battles.
  • B. Crandall Close Bowles
    Crandall Close Bowles is an American businesswoman and philanthropist known for her leadership roles in major corporations and her extensive civic and educational board service.
  • C. John Tarleton
    John Tarleton was an 18th-century English merchant and politician from Liverpool, known for his involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and as the father of British cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton.
  • D. Joseph W. Byrns
    Joseph W. Byrns was an American Democratic politician from Tennessee who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in the mid-1930s.
  • E. Bob Bass
    Bob Bass was an American professional basketball coach and executive best known for his influential roles in the ABA and NBA, including multiple Coach of the Year honors and front-office success.
  • 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 is a conservative Mississippi lawyer
Triple: [The Bostonians, characterRole, Basil Ransom is a conservative Mississippi lawyer]
Generated description
Basil Ransom is a central fictional character in Henry James’s novel "The Bostonians," portrayed as a traditionalist Southern lawyer whose conservative views clash with the era’s emerging feminist and reformist movements.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Basil Ransom is a conservative Mississippi lawyer
Target entity description: Basil Ransom is a central fictional character in Henry James’s novel "The Bostonians," portrayed as a traditionalist Southern lawyer whose conservative views clash with the era’s emerging feminist and reformist movements.
  • A. Roy Moore
    Roy Moore is an American politician and former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court known for his controversial religiously motivated stances and high-profile legal and political battles.
  • B. Crandall Close Bowles
    Crandall Close Bowles is an American businesswoman and philanthropist known for her leadership roles in major corporations and her extensive civic and educational board service.
  • C. John Tarleton
    John Tarleton was an 18th-century English merchant and politician from Liverpool, known for his involvement in the Atlantic slave trade and as the father of British cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton.
  • D. Joseph W. Byrns
    Joseph W. Byrns was an American Democratic politician from Tennessee who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in the mid-1930s.
  • E. Bob Bass
    Bob Bass was an American professional basketball coach and executive best known for his influential roles in the ABA and NBA, including multiple Coach of the Year honors and front-office success.
  • 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.