Triple

T5531059
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pierre; or, The Ambiguities E145047 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Lucy Tartan
Lucy Tartan is a central female character in Herman Melville’s novel "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities," embodying themes of romantic idealism and social expectation.
 E529011 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: Lucy Tartan | Statement: [Pierre; or, The Ambiguities, character, Lucy Tartan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lucy Tartan
Context triple: [Pierre; or, The Ambiguities, character, Lucy Tartan]
  • A. Catriona
    Catriona is a feminine given name of Gaelic origin, commonly used in Scotland and Ireland and often considered a variant of Katherine.
  • B. Catriona
    Catriona is a historical adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson that continues the story begun in Kidnapped, following David Balfour’s further trials and romance in 18th-century Scotland and the Netherlands.
  • C. Isobel
    Isobel is a feminine given name, typically considered a variant of Isabel or Isabella, used in various English-speaking and European cultures.
  • D. Sheelagh
    Sheelagh is a feminine given name, typically considered an alternative spelling of Sheila and ultimately derived from the Irish name Síle.
  • E. Mairi
    Mairi is a Scottish Gaelic form of the given name Mary, commonly used in Scotland and Gaelic-speaking communities.
  • 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: Lucy Tartan
Triple: [Pierre; or, The Ambiguities, character, Lucy Tartan]
Generated description
Lucy Tartan is a central female character in Herman Melville’s novel "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities," embodying themes of romantic idealism and social expectation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lucy Tartan
Target entity description: Lucy Tartan is a central female character in Herman Melville’s novel "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities," embodying themes of romantic idealism and social expectation.
  • A. Catriona
    Catriona is a feminine given name of Gaelic origin, commonly used in Scotland and Ireland and often considered a variant of Katherine.
  • B. Catriona
    Catriona is a historical adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson that continues the story begun in Kidnapped, following David Balfour’s further trials and romance in 18th-century Scotland and the Netherlands.
  • C. Isobel
    Isobel is a feminine given name, typically considered a variant of Isabel or Isabella, used in various English-speaking and European cultures.
  • D. Sheelagh
    Sheelagh is a feminine given name, typically considered an alternative spelling of Sheila and ultimately derived from the Irish name Síle.
  • E. Mairi
    Mairi is a Scottish Gaelic form of the given name Mary, commonly used in Scotland and Gaelic-speaking communities.
  • 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_69c008f9955881909bfa8348b56b4739 completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c01f9b59bc8190a8758b3be54831e9 completed March 22, 2026, 4:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c02805a174819096cd16f2c1ef2eb1 completed March 22, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c033ddc7148190ba64ebfc2472c367 completed March 22, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c036725fc481908ab0e260892d8243 completed March 22, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:34 p.m.