Triple

T5135631
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Grendel's mother E115812 entity
Predicate kills P19780 FINISHED
Object Æschere
Æschere is a trusted advisor and close companion of King Hrothgar in the Old English epic Beowulf, whose death at the hands of Grendel’s mother spurs Beowulf’s vengeful pursuit.
 E495883 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: Æschere | Statement: [Grendel's mother, kills, Æschere]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Æschere
Context triple: [Grendel's mother, kills, Æschere]
  • A. Agravain
    Agravain is a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, known as one of Gawain’s brothers and often portrayed as treacherous or antagonistic.
  • B. Oswald Danes
    Oswald Danes is a fictional convicted child murderer and central antagonist in the science fiction TV series "Torchwood: Miracle Day."
  • C. Geoffrey
    Geoffrey is a masculine given name of English origin, famously borne by pioneering computer scientist and AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton.
  • D. Alfrid
    Alfrid is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly associated with medieval and fantasy settings.
  • E. Oakenshield
    Oakenshield is the warrior-king epithet of Thorin, the Dwarf leader from J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit," famed for his quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain.
  • 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: Æschere
Triple: [Grendel's mother, kills, Æschere]
Generated description
Æschere is a trusted advisor and close companion of King Hrothgar in the Old English epic Beowulf, whose death at the hands of Grendel’s mother spurs Beowulf’s vengeful pursuit.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Æschere
Target entity description: Æschere is a trusted advisor and close companion of King Hrothgar in the Old English epic Beowulf, whose death at the hands of Grendel’s mother spurs Beowulf’s vengeful pursuit.
  • A. Agravain
    Agravain is a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, known as one of Gawain’s brothers and often portrayed as treacherous or antagonistic.
  • B. Oswald Danes
    Oswald Danes is a fictional convicted child murderer and central antagonist in the science fiction TV series "Torchwood: Miracle Day."
  • C. Geoffrey
    Geoffrey is a masculine given name of English origin, famously borne by pioneering computer scientist and AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton.
  • D. Alfrid
    Alfrid is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly associated with medieval and fantasy settings.
  • E. Oakenshield
    Oakenshield is the warrior-king epithet of Thorin, the Dwarf leader from J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit," famed for his quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain.
  • 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_69bd44459a988190a772a5c2ec6a1965 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd785069108190bf9cfdc7d962d43f completed March 20, 2026, 4:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bec4d04b3c8190bfac5986e1bb89a5 completed March 21, 2026, 4:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bec562d0508190851b5a3307e9405b completed March 21, 2026, 4:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bec6478b848190bc09d7f6485681b4 completed March 21, 2026, 4:24 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:43 p.m.