Triple

T4209320
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Restoration E93859 entity
Predicate hasSequel P1961 FINISHED
Object Merivel: A Man of His Time
Merivel: A Man of His Time is Rose Tremain’s historical novel that continues the story of 17th-century physician Robert Merivel as he navigates aging, love, and loyalty in the turbulent aftermath of the English Civil War and the Restoration.
E420936 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: Merivel: A Man of His Time | Statement: [Restoration, hasSequel, Merivel: A Man of His Time]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merivel: A Man of His Time
Context triple: [Restoration, hasSequel, Merivel: A Man of His Time]
  • A. Men of Our Times
    Men of Our Times is a biographical work by Harriet Beecher Stowe that profiles prominent 19th-century figures and their moral and social influence.
  • B. Penman of the Revolution
    Penman of the Revolution is the honorific given to John Dickinson, a Founding Father renowned for his influential pre-Revolutionary political writings that shaped American colonial resistance to British rule.
  • C. Lord of Montaigne
    Lord of Montaigne is the hereditary seigneurial title held by the French Renaissance philosopher and essayist Michel de Montaigne over his family estate in the Périgord region.
  • D. A Modern Man
    A Modern Man is a rapid-fire comedic monologue by George Carlin in which he satirically lists the traits, contradictions, and buzzwords of contemporary life and identity.
  • E. The Revolutionist
    "The Revolutionist" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, included in his collection *In Our Time*, that portrays a young political idealist in postwar Europe.
  • 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: Merivel: A Man of His Time
Triple: [Restoration, hasSequel, Merivel: A Man of His Time]
Generated description
Merivel: A Man of His Time is Rose Tremain’s historical novel that continues the story of 17th-century physician Robert Merivel as he navigates aging, love, and loyalty in the turbulent aftermath of the English Civil War and the Restoration.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merivel: A Man of His Time
Target entity description: Merivel: A Man of His Time is Rose Tremain’s historical novel that continues the story of 17th-century physician Robert Merivel as he navigates aging, love, and loyalty in the turbulent aftermath of the English Civil War and the Restoration.
  • A. Men of Our Times
    Men of Our Times is a biographical work by Harriet Beecher Stowe that profiles prominent 19th-century figures and their moral and social influence.
  • B. Penman of the Revolution
    Penman of the Revolution is the honorific given to John Dickinson, a Founding Father renowned for his influential pre-Revolutionary political writings that shaped American colonial resistance to British rule.
  • C. Lord of Montaigne
    Lord of Montaigne is the hereditary seigneurial title held by the French Renaissance philosopher and essayist Michel de Montaigne over his family estate in the Périgord region.
  • D. A Modern Man
    A Modern Man is a rapid-fire comedic monologue by George Carlin in which he satirically lists the traits, contradictions, and buzzwords of contemporary life and identity.
  • E. The Revolutionist
    "The Revolutionist" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway, included in his collection *In Our Time*, that portrays a young political idealist in postwar Europe.
  • 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_69b3451743608190808f41d17ccf2650 completed March 12, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3480f80208190b08ca6ccfe9c41f6 completed March 12, 2026, 11:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5962bb63c81909e28a958323edb82 completed March 14, 2026, 5:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b596b7330081908c66a5a756531ffd completed March 14, 2026, 5:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5976663d88190a73a729554e91074 completed March 14, 2026, 5:14 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:03 p.m.