Triple

T450917
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry Colburn E7125 entity
Predicate notableAuthorPublished P7039 FINISHED
Object Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a prolific 19th-century English novelist, playwright, and politician, best known for coining phrases like “the pen is mightier than the sword” and for his influential popular fiction.
E56643 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: Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Statement: [Henry Colburn, notableAuthorPublished, Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Context triple: [Henry Colburn, notableAuthorPublished, Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
  • A. Sheridan Le Fanu
    Sheridan Le Fanu was a 19th-century Irish writer best known for his influential Gothic and ghost stories, including the vampire novella "Carmilla."
  • B. Charles Maturin
    Charles Maturin was an Irish Protestant clergyman and early 19th-century novelist best known for his influential Gothic novel "Melmoth the Wanderer."
  • C. Henry Brougham
    Henry Brougham was a prominent 19th-century British statesman, lawyer, and reformer who played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the passing of the 1832 Reform Act.
  • D. Horace Walpole
    Horace Walpole was an 18th-century English writer, art historian, and politician best known for pioneering the Gothic novel with "The Castle of Otranto" and for his extensive correspondence.
  • E. William Irving
    William Irving was the brother of famed American author Washington Irving and a member of the prominent Irving family of early 19th-century New York.
  • 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: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Triple: [Henry Colburn, notableAuthorPublished, Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
Generated description
Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a prolific 19th-century English novelist, playwright, and politician, best known for coining phrases like “the pen is mightier than the sword” and for his influential popular fiction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Target entity description: Edward Bulwer-Lytton was a prolific 19th-century English novelist, playwright, and politician, best known for coining phrases like “the pen is mightier than the sword” and for his influential popular fiction.
  • A. Sheridan Le Fanu
    Sheridan Le Fanu was a 19th-century Irish writer best known for his influential Gothic and ghost stories, including the vampire novella "Carmilla."
  • B. Charles Maturin
    Charles Maturin was an Irish Protestant clergyman and early 19th-century novelist best known for his influential Gothic novel "Melmoth the Wanderer."
  • C. Henry Brougham
    Henry Brougham was a prominent 19th-century British statesman, lawyer, and reformer who played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the passing of the 1832 Reform Act.
  • D. Horace Walpole
    Horace Walpole was an 18th-century English writer, art historian, and politician best known for pioneering the Gothic novel with "The Castle of Otranto" and for his extensive correspondence.
  • E. William Irving
    William Irving was the brother of famed American author Washington Irving and a member of the prominent Irving family of early 19th-century New York.
  • 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_69a2e7e4676c81909ea0dbdecac0687c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ef835ae881908884dcc3a46af951 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a44801b3f88190b8bd4b4739c3e783 completed March 1, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a448c647a48190bd1212b96992b7c6 completed March 1, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4497c4e8c8190b6cfe8ac2f3a8335 completed March 1, 2026, 2:13 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.