Triple

T2880974
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Farewell to Arms E59394 entity
Predicate containsCharacter P5716 FINISHED
Object Helen Ferguson
Helen Ferguson is a secondary character in Ernest Hemingway's novel "A Farewell to Arms," serving as Catherine Barkley's protective friend and a skeptical observer of her relationship with Frederic Henry.
E396425 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: Helen Ferguson | Statement: [A Farewell to Arms, containsCharacter, Helen Ferguson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Helen Ferguson
Context triple: [A Farewell to Arms, containsCharacter, Helen Ferguson]
  • A. Helen Hughes
    Helen Hughes was a daughter of Charles Evans Hughes, the prominent American statesman who served as both U.S. Secretary of State and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
  • B. Helen Marshall
    Helen Marshall is a British academic leader and higher education administrator who has served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salford.
  • C. Helen Humes
    Helen Humes was an American jazz and blues singer known for her work with Count Basie’s orchestra and her versatile, swinging vocal style.
  • D. Helen Willis
    Helen Willis is a central character on the sitcom "The Jeffersons," known as Louise Jefferson’s close friend and one half of the show’s groundbreaking interracial couple.
  • E. Elizabeth Nourse
    Elizabeth Nourse was an American realist painter known for her sensitive depictions of women and rural life, who built a successful career in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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: Helen Ferguson
Triple: [A Farewell to Arms, containsCharacter, Helen Ferguson]
Generated description
Helen Ferguson is a secondary character in Ernest Hemingway's novel "A Farewell to Arms," serving as Catherine Barkley's protective friend and a skeptical observer of her relationship with Frederic Henry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Helen Ferguson
Target entity description: Helen Ferguson is a secondary character in Ernest Hemingway's novel "A Farewell to Arms," serving as Catherine Barkley's protective friend and a skeptical observer of her relationship with Frederic Henry.
  • A. Helen Hughes
    Helen Hughes was a daughter of Charles Evans Hughes, the prominent American statesman who served as both U.S. Secretary of State and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
  • B. Helen Marshall
    Helen Marshall is a British academic leader and higher education administrator who has served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salford.
  • C. Helen Humes
    Helen Humes was an American jazz and blues singer known for her work with Count Basie’s orchestra and her versatile, swinging vocal style.
  • D. Helen Willis
    Helen Willis is a central character on the sitcom "The Jeffersons," known as Louise Jefferson’s close friend and one half of the show’s groundbreaking interracial couple.
  • E. Elizabeth Nourse
    Elizabeth Nourse was an American realist painter known for her sensitive depictions of women and rural life, who built a successful career in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • 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_69ab4ac739188190a112f42a5a69c951 completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abe0296be081908070bd48fe4fc926 completed March 7, 2026, 8:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b51c5602f081908dba5df679ca9733 completed March 14, 2026, 8:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b51d3f4d088190872082b8053eabf5 completed March 14, 2026, 8:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b51d73ecd48190881c15ff6e0daea0 completed March 14, 2026, 8:33 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:03 p.m.