Triple

T5235298
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ismail Merchant E118205 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Bostonians
The Bostonians is a 1984 period drama film adaptation of Henry James's novel, directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, that explores feminism, politics, and romantic rivalry in post–Civil War Boston.
E507956 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: The Bostonians | Statement: [Ismail Merchant, notableWork, The Bostonians]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Bostonians
Context triple: [Ismail Merchant, notableWork, The Bostonians]
  • A. The Bostonians
    The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James that explores post–Civil War American society through a satirical examination of feminism, reform movements, and complex personal relationships in Boston.
  • B. The Biglow Papers
    The Biglow Papers is a satirical collection of dialect poems and prose by James Russell Lowell that critiques the Mexican–American War and contemporary politics in mid-19th-century America.
  • C. The Custom of the Country
    The Custom of the Country is a 1913 novel by Edith Wharton that satirically portrays American society and social climbing through the ruthless ambitions of its heroine, Undine Spragg.
  • D. The Rise of Silas Lapham
    The Rise of Silas Lapham is an 1885 realist novel by William Dean Howells that explores social class, moral integrity, and the American business ethic through the story of a self-made paint manufacturer in post–Civil War Boston.
  • E. Pillars of Society
    "Pillars of Society" is a satirical 1926 painting by German artist George Grosz that harshly criticizes the hypocrisy and corruption of Weimar-era political and social elites.
  • 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: The Bostonians
Triple: [Ismail Merchant, notableWork, The Bostonians]
Generated description
The Bostonians is a 1984 period drama film adaptation of Henry James's novel, directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, that explores feminism, politics, and romantic rivalry in post–Civil War Boston.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Bostonians
Target entity description: The Bostonians is a 1984 period drama film adaptation of Henry James's novel, directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, that explores feminism, politics, and romantic rivalry in post–Civil War Boston.
  • A. The Bostonians
    The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James that explores post–Civil War American society through a satirical examination of feminism, reform movements, and complex personal relationships in Boston.
  • B. The Biglow Papers
    The Biglow Papers is a satirical collection of dialect poems and prose by James Russell Lowell that critiques the Mexican–American War and contemporary politics in mid-19th-century America.
  • C. The Custom of the Country
    The Custom of the Country is a 1913 novel by Edith Wharton that satirically portrays American society and social climbing through the ruthless ambitions of its heroine, Undine Spragg.
  • D. The Rise of Silas Lapham
    The Rise of Silas Lapham is an 1885 realist novel by William Dean Howells that explores social class, moral integrity, and the American business ethic through the story of a self-made paint manufacturer in post–Civil War Boston.
  • E. Pillars of Society
    "Pillars of Society" is a satirical 1926 painting by German artist George Grosz that harshly criticizes the hypocrisy and corruption of Weimar-era political and social elites.
  • 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_69bd4467db0881909b3b0982df32cc8f completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7b064b6881909f5746f55aa422c6 completed March 20, 2026, 4:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf06b8a0e881909d6037fb8fca1236 completed March 21, 2026, 8:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf07abfc188190a37cfb9e26240a9e completed March 21, 2026, 9:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf07fb3ab08190aaf61a802f027e57 completed March 21, 2026, 9:04 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:49 p.m.