Triple

T3016812
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Casual Vacancy E82354 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Howard Mollison
Howard Mollison is a domineering, conservative parish council leader and delicatessen owner in J.K. Rowling’s novel "The Casual Vacancy," known for his snobbery and political scheming in the small town of Pagford.
E359617 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: Howard Mollison | Statement: [The Casual Vacancy, hasCharacter, Howard Mollison]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Mollison
Context triple: [The Casual Vacancy, hasCharacter, Howard Mollison]
  • A. Harold Morrison
    Harold Morrison was a Jamaican-born architect and academic best known as the former husband of Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison.
  • B. Richard Hiscott
    Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
  • C. Clive Beddoe
    Clive Beddoe is a Canadian entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the low-cost airline WestJet.
  • D. Geoffrey Beevers
    Geoffrey Beevers is a British actor best known to Doctor Who fans for his chilling portrayal of the villainous Time Lord known as the Master.
  • E. Herbert Jenkins
    Herbert Jenkins was a British publishing company best known for issuing popular fiction, including many works by P. G. Wodehouse.
  • 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: Howard Mollison
Triple: [The Casual Vacancy, hasCharacter, Howard Mollison]
Generated description
Howard Mollison is a domineering, conservative parish council leader and delicatessen owner in J.K. Rowling’s novel "The Casual Vacancy," known for his snobbery and political scheming in the small town of Pagford.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Mollison
Target entity description: Howard Mollison is a domineering, conservative parish council leader and delicatessen owner in J.K. Rowling’s novel "The Casual Vacancy," known for his snobbery and political scheming in the small town of Pagford.
  • A. Harold Morrison
    Harold Morrison was a Jamaican-born architect and academic best known as the former husband of Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison.
  • B. Richard Hiscott
    Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
  • C. Clive Beddoe
    Clive Beddoe is a Canadian entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the low-cost airline WestJet.
  • D. Geoffrey Beevers
    Geoffrey Beevers is a British actor best known to Doctor Who fans for his chilling portrayal of the villainous Time Lord known as the Master.
  • E. Herbert Jenkins
    Herbert Jenkins was a British publishing company best known for issuing popular fiction, including many works by P. G. Wodehouse.
  • 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_69ad8b1eb53481908c39bbcd1ec104b2 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9a6c56708190b7d8d08bca727cc1 completed March 8, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b360881c9081909cb4c5e7b93d7b78 completed March 13, 2026, 12:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b3614702348190bd35c37d2059312f completed March 13, 2026, 12:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b362451b848190a2fe80a17ab8f9c3 completed March 13, 2026, 1:03 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3 p.m.