Triple

T2674866
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Washington Square E56434 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Morris Townsend
Morris Townsend is a charming but opportunistic suitor in Henry James’s novel "Washington Square," whose pursuit of Catherine Sloper is driven largely by her expected inheritance.
E297303 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: Morris Townsend | Statement: [Washington Square, mainCharacter, Morris Townsend]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Morris Townsend
Context triple: [Washington Square, mainCharacter, Morris Townsend]
  • A. Homer Murray
    Homer Murray is an American chef and restaurateur, best known as the son of actor Bill Murray and for running the Brooklyn restaurant 21 Greenpoint.
  • B. James Caldwell
    James Caldwell was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel anti-British sentiment before the American Revolution.
  • C. Elam Ferguson
    Elam Ferguson is a formerly enslaved man who becomes a central figure in the post–Civil War frontier drama of the TV series "Hell on Wheels," navigating racial tensions, violence, and his search for identity and justice.
  • D. Harvey Dunn
    Harvey Dunn was an American painter and illustrator renowned for his powerful depictions of frontier life and war, and as a prominent teacher who helped shape early 20th-century American illustration.
  • E. Archie Morris
    Archie Morris is a fictional emergency medicine physician best known as a quirky, often comic-relief character on the television series "ER."
  • 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: Morris Townsend
Triple: [Washington Square, mainCharacter, Morris Townsend]
Generated description
Morris Townsend is a charming but opportunistic suitor in Henry James’s novel "Washington Square," whose pursuit of Catherine Sloper is driven largely by her expected inheritance.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Morris Townsend
Target entity description: Morris Townsend is a charming but opportunistic suitor in Henry James’s novel "Washington Square," whose pursuit of Catherine Sloper is driven largely by her expected inheritance.
  • A. Homer Murray
    Homer Murray is an American chef and restaurateur, best known as the son of actor Bill Murray and for running the Brooklyn restaurant 21 Greenpoint.
  • B. James Caldwell
    James Caldwell was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel anti-British sentiment before the American Revolution.
  • C. Elam Ferguson
    Elam Ferguson is a formerly enslaved man who becomes a central figure in the post–Civil War frontier drama of the TV series "Hell on Wheels," navigating racial tensions, violence, and his search for identity and justice.
  • D. Harvey Dunn
    Harvey Dunn was an American painter and illustrator renowned for his powerful depictions of frontier life and war, and as a prominent teacher who helped shape early 20th-century American illustration.
  • E. Archie Morris
    Archie Morris is a fictional emergency medicine physician best known as a quirky, often comic-relief character on the television series "ER."
  • 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_69ab4a4b13fc81909dfdb3f23da46832 completed March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd9b228cc819097f045b4a51d8e7c completed March 7, 2026, 7:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afc02d8730819093a576d3751432de completed March 10, 2026, 6:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afc15513f48190a22f83571be2e0bd completed March 10, 2026, 6:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afc1c9440c8190abf9dc063109af45 completed March 10, 2026, 7:01 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:54 p.m.