Triple

T4307964
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Human Comedy E94001 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Marcus Macauley
Marcus Macauley is the young protagonist of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," through whose experiences the story explores themes of family, loss, and coming of age in small-town America during World War II.
E430899 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: Marcus Macauley | Statement: [The Human Comedy, mainCharacter, Marcus Macauley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marcus Macauley
Context triple: [The Human Comedy, mainCharacter, Marcus Macauley]
  • A. James Lewis Macie
    James Lewis Macie, better known as James Smithson, was the British scientist and philanthropist whose bequest founded the Smithsonian Institution in the United States.
  • B. Ulysses Macauley
    Ulysses Macauley is a young boy in William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," symbolizing innocence and hope amid the hardships of World War II–era small-town America.
  • C. Zachary Macaulay
    Zachary Macaulay was a British colonial administrator, prominent abolitionist, and key member of the evangelical reform movement that campaigned against the transatlantic slave trade in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • D. Adam MacDougall
    Adam MacDougall is a former Australian rugby league footballer best known as a powerful centre and winger who represented both New South Wales in State of Origin and Australia at international level.
  • E. Theodore St. John
    Theodore St. John was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Academy Award-winning circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952).
  • 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: Marcus Macauley
Triple: [The Human Comedy, mainCharacter, Marcus Macauley]
Generated description
Marcus Macauley is the young protagonist of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," through whose experiences the story explores themes of family, loss, and coming of age in small-town America during World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marcus Macauley
Target entity description: Marcus Macauley is the young protagonist of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," through whose experiences the story explores themes of family, loss, and coming of age in small-town America during World War II.
  • A. James Lewis Macie
    James Lewis Macie, better known as James Smithson, was the British scientist and philanthropist whose bequest founded the Smithsonian Institution in the United States.
  • B. Ulysses Macauley
    Ulysses Macauley is a young boy in William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," symbolizing innocence and hope amid the hardships of World War II–era small-town America.
  • C. Zachary Macaulay
    Zachary Macaulay was a British colonial administrator, prominent abolitionist, and key member of the evangelical reform movement that campaigned against the transatlantic slave trade in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • D. Adam MacDougall
    Adam MacDougall is a former Australian rugby league footballer best known as a powerful centre and winger who represented both New South Wales in State of Origin and Australia at international level.
  • E. Theodore St. John
    Theodore St. John was an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the Academy Award-winning circus drama film "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952).
  • 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_69b5d07aede08190bbabc6a7b5a7dfb6 completed March 14, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5d1710864819085834d7bd8727876 completed March 14, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5d1dc0d0881908563c79823a8113f completed March 14, 2026, 9:23 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:11 p.m.