Triple

T5159700
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sadie Thompson E116404 entity
Predicate conflictsWith P4897 FINISHED
Object Alfred Davidson
Alfred Davidson is a rigidly moralistic missionary character in W. Somerset Maugham’s story “Rain,” whose puritanical zeal drives the central conflict with Sadie Thompson.
 E497233 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: Alfred Davidson | Statement: [Sadie Thompson, conflictsWith, Alfred Davidson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alfred Davidson
Context triple: [Sadie Thompson, conflictsWith, Alfred Davidson]
  • A. Alfred Gough
    Alfred Gough is an American screenwriter and producer best known as the co-creator of the television series Smallville and for his work on various film and TV projects.
  • B. Alfred Sant
    Alfred Sant is a Maltese politician and writer who served as Prime Minister of Malta and later as a Member of the European Parliament.
  • C. George Brink
    George Brink was a prominent South African military officer who played a key leadership role in the South African Army during the Second World War.
  • D. Wilfred Johnson
    Wilfred Johnson was the paternal grandfather of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and a British politician of Turkish descent who served as a Conservative Party councillor.
  • E. Harold Adamson
    Harold Adamson was an American lyricist best known for his work on popular film songs and standards during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
  • 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: Alfred Davidson
Triple: [Sadie Thompson, conflictsWith, Alfred Davidson]
Generated description
Alfred Davidson is a rigidly moralistic missionary character in W. Somerset Maugham’s story “Rain,” whose puritanical zeal drives the central conflict with Sadie Thompson.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alfred Davidson
Target entity description: Alfred Davidson is a rigidly moralistic missionary character in W. Somerset Maugham’s story “Rain,” whose puritanical zeal drives the central conflict with Sadie Thompson.
  • A. Alfred Gough
    Alfred Gough is an American screenwriter and producer best known as the co-creator of the television series Smallville and for his work on various film and TV projects.
  • B. Alfred Sant
    Alfred Sant is a Maltese politician and writer who served as Prime Minister of Malta and later as a Member of the European Parliament.
  • C. George Brink
    George Brink was a prominent South African military officer who played a key leadership role in the South African Army during the Second World War.
  • D. Wilfred Johnson
    Wilfred Johnson was the paternal grandfather of former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and a British politician of Turkish descent who served as a Conservative Party councillor.
  • E. Harold Adamson
    Harold Adamson was an American lyricist best known for his work on popular film songs and standards during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
  • 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_69bd445edb3881909b93b34d260717fc completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd790613bc819084765cd4ea648dc9 completed March 20, 2026, 4:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bed01ce48081908813348b762bf1b0 completed March 21, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bed08b4acc819096e7fd2fd9dbc73a completed March 21, 2026, 5:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bed103a1088190abca6e7d1fbd9c2b completed March 21, 2026, 5:10 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:44 p.m.