Triple

T2600597
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Canterbury Tales E58332 entity
Predicate containsCharacter P5716 FINISHED
Object Pardoner
The Pardoner is a corrupt, hypocritical seller of indulgences in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales*, known for preaching against greed while embodying it himself.
 E282136 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: Pardoner | Statement: [The Canterbury Tales, containsCharacter, Pardoner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Pardoner
Context triple: [The Canterbury Tales, containsCharacter, Pardoner]
  • A. Mr. Furnival
    Mr. Furnival is a prominent London barrister in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm," known for his legal skill, social ambition, and complex personal life.
  • B. Tom Priestly
    Tom Priestly is a film editor best known for his work on notable movies such as "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore."
  • C. William Cornysh
    William Cornysh was an English Renaissance composer and dramatist known for his influential sacred and secular music at the Tudor court.
  • D. Sheriff of Nottingham
    The Sheriff of Nottingham is the primary antagonist in the Robin Hood legends, typically portrayed as a corrupt and ruthless lawman obsessed with capturing the outlaw hero.
  • E. Goodwin Knight
    Goodwin Knight was an American Republican politician who served as the 31st governor of California in the 1950s.
  • 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: Pardoner
Triple: [The Canterbury Tales, containsCharacter, Pardoner]
Generated description
The Pardoner is a corrupt, hypocritical seller of indulgences in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales*, known for preaching against greed while embodying it himself.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Pardoner
Target entity description: The Pardoner is a corrupt, hypocritical seller of indulgences in Geoffrey Chaucer’s *The Canterbury Tales*, known for preaching against greed while embodying it himself.
  • A. The Pardoner's Tale chosen
    "The Pardoner's Tale" is a moral exemplum within Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales that exposes greed and hypocrisy through the story of three rioters seeking to kill Death.
  • B. Mr. Furnival
    Mr. Furnival is a prominent London barrister in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm," known for his legal skill, social ambition, and complex personal life.
  • C. Tom Priestly
    Tom Priestly is a film editor best known for his work on notable movies such as "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore."
  • D. William Cornysh
    William Cornysh was an English Renaissance composer and dramatist known for his influential sacred and secular music at the Tudor court.
  • E. Sheriff of Nottingham
    The Sheriff of Nottingham is the primary antagonist in the Robin Hood legends, typically portrayed as a corrupt and ruthless lawman obsessed with capturing the outlaw hero.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ab4ac14040819098b13f4a27d5c8ff completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd4587014819089f78e93adf2144c completed March 7, 2026, 7:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af83cfdd6081908cdeb21243e73dda completed March 10, 2026, 2:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af878cfbd8819092e81326bbb1dfd3 completed March 10, 2026, 2:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af8809574c819087ebf57cf5cffb7c completed March 10, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:49 p.m.