Triple

T4307963
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Human Comedy E94001 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Bess Macauley
Bess Macauley is the central protagonist of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," around whom the story’s emotional and moral themes revolve.
E449441 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: Bess Macauley | Statement: [The Human Comedy, mainCharacter, Bess Macauley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bess Macauley
Context triple: [The Human Comedy, mainCharacter, Bess Macauley]
  • A. Ellin Mackay
    Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
  • B. Catherine Macmillan
    Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
  • C. Beatrice Dawson
    Beatrice Dawson was a British costume designer known for her work on mid-20th-century films, earning multiple Academy Award nominations for her period and character costumes.
  • D. Elizabeth Kitley
    Elizabeth Kitley is an American college basketball center for Virginia Tech, recognized as one of the top players in the nation and a multi-time ACC Player of the Year.
  • E. Milly Theale
    Milly Theale is a wealthy, terminally ill American heiress whose innocence and vulnerability drive the moral and emotional conflicts at the center of Henry James’s novel "The Wings of the Dove."
  • 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: Bess Macauley
Triple: [The Human Comedy, mainCharacter, Bess Macauley]
Generated description
Bess Macauley is the central protagonist of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," around whom the story’s emotional and moral themes revolve.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bess Macauley
Target entity description: Bess Macauley is the central protagonist of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," around whom the story’s emotional and moral themes revolve.
  • A. Ellin Mackay
    Ellin Mackay was an American socialite and writer best known for her controversial marriage to composer Irving Berlin, which defied the social and religious norms of their time.
  • B. Catherine Macmillan
    Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
  • C. Beatrice Dawson
    Beatrice Dawson was a British costume designer known for her work on mid-20th-century films, earning multiple Academy Award nominations for her period and character costumes.
  • D. Elizabeth Kitley
    Elizabeth Kitley is an American college basketball center for Virginia Tech, recognized as one of the top players in the nation and a multi-time ACC Player of the Year.
  • E. Milly Theale
    Milly Theale is a wealthy, terminally ill American heiress whose innocence and vulnerability drive the moral and emotional conflicts at the center of Henry James’s novel "The Wings of the Dove."
  • 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_69b3451886588190a3dd1305ea7c58dc completed March 12, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b350d2af088190ad7cb035d6e0f8c2 completed March 12, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bda4073aa88190ba64691b93aab900 completed March 20, 2026, 7:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bda586202c8190960d36bdaa1284a7 completed March 20, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bda5dd44388190861ddf5f689b739c completed March 20, 2026, 7:54 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:11 p.m.