Triple

T5547016
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Brothers Karamazov E145432 entity
Predicate notableEnglishTranslator P34219 FINISHED
Object David Magarshack
David Magarshack was a 20th-century British translator and biographer best known for his influential English translations of Russian classics, particularly the works of Dostoevsky.
E543185 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: David Magarshack | Statement: [The Brothers Karamazov, notableEnglishTranslator, David Magarshack]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Magarshack
Context triple: [The Brothers Karamazov, notableEnglishTranslator, David Magarshack]
  • A. C. Peter Magrath
    C. Peter Magrath is an American higher education leader and former university president known for his influential roles in public university administration and national education organizations.
  • B. Clarence Geldart
    Clarence Geldart was a Canadian-born character actor of the silent and early sound film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • C. David Burnside
    David Burnside is a Northern Irish public relations executive and former Ulster Unionist Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament for South Antrim.
  • D. David Richmond
    David Richmond was a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American students who initiated the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins challenging racial segregation at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina.
  • E. Nigel Hess
    Nigel Hess is a British composer best known for his work on television, film, and theatre scores, including numerous BBC dramas and stage productions.
  • 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: David Magarshack
Triple: [The Brothers Karamazov, notableEnglishTranslator, David Magarshack]
Generated description
David Magarshack was a 20th-century British translator and biographer best known for his influential English translations of Russian classics, particularly the works of Dostoevsky.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Magarshack
Target entity description: David Magarshack was a 20th-century British translator and biographer best known for his influential English translations of Russian classics, particularly the works of Dostoevsky.
  • A. C. Peter Magrath
    C. Peter Magrath is an American higher education leader and former university president known for his influential roles in public university administration and national education organizations.
  • B. Clarence Geldart
    Clarence Geldart was a Canadian-born character actor of the silent and early sound film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
  • C. David Burnside
    David Burnside is a Northern Irish public relations executive and former Ulster Unionist Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament for South Antrim.
  • D. David Richmond
    David Richmond was a civil rights activist best known as one of the four African American students who initiated the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins challenging racial segregation at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina.
  • E. Nigel Hess
    Nigel Hess is a British composer best known for his work on television, film, and theatre scores, including numerous BBC dramas and stage productions.
  • 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_69c008fb879c81909f5bfa56fadc1d46 completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c01fdec3588190b0af7d2ca8e8ee9b completed March 22, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c07d6edb7481908e94de7314ca70cc completed March 22, 2026, 11:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c084eb311481909d33231b96d50a05 completed March 23, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0853ccf088190b1f9f7f4c48f11af completed March 23, 2026, 12:11 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:35 p.m.