Triple

T5559891
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Makepeace Thackeray E145738 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Virginians
The Virginians is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that follows the lives of two Virginian brothers during the era of the American Revolution and its ties to British society.
E532306 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 Virginians | Statement: [William Makepeace Thackeray, notableWork, The Virginians]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Virginians
Context triple: [William Makepeace Thackeray, notableWork, The Virginians]
  • A. The Lees of Old Virginia
    "The Lees of Old Virginia" is a lively, character-establishing song from the Broadway musical *1776* that humorously introduces Richard Henry Lee and his proud Virginia lineage.
  • B. The Howards of Virginia
    The Howards of Virginia is a 1940 historical drama film set during the American Revolutionary period, following the life and political awakening of a backwoods Virginian who becomes involved in the fight for independence.
  • C. A Map of Virginia
    A Map of Virginia is an early 17th-century cartographic work by John Smith that provided one of the first detailed English maps and descriptions of the Virginia colony and its Indigenous peoples.
  • D. The Valley of the Shadow
    "The Valley of the Shadow" is a notable poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson that reflects his characteristic meditations on mortality, spiritual struggle, and the human condition.
  • E. A Letter from the South
    "A Letter from the South" is an essay by James Baldwin that reflects on race, history, and the Black experience in the American South.
  • 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 Virginians
Triple: [William Makepeace Thackeray, notableWork, The Virginians]
Generated description
The Virginians is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that follows the lives of two Virginian brothers during the era of the American Revolution and its ties to British society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Virginians
Target entity description: The Virginians is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that follows the lives of two Virginian brothers during the era of the American Revolution and its ties to British society.
  • A. The Lees of Old Virginia
    "The Lees of Old Virginia" is a lively, character-establishing song from the Broadway musical *1776* that humorously introduces Richard Henry Lee and his proud Virginia lineage.
  • B. The Howards of Virginia
    The Howards of Virginia is a 1940 historical drama film set during the American Revolutionary period, following the life and political awakening of a backwoods Virginian who becomes involved in the fight for independence.
  • C. A Map of Virginia
    A Map of Virginia is an early 17th-century cartographic work by John Smith that provided one of the first detailed English maps and descriptions of the Virginia colony and its Indigenous peoples.
  • D. The Valley of the Shadow
    "The Valley of the Shadow" is a notable poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson that reflects his characteristic meditations on mortality, spiritual struggle, and the human condition.
  • E. A Letter from the South
    "A Letter from the South" is an essay by James Baldwin that reflects on race, history, and the Black experience in the American South.
  • 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_69c008fcaf788190bafa02a1917ee73b completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c020167afc8190b0c518907cd0d99b completed March 22, 2026, 5 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c028424ddc8190869b530a8eb43f50 completed March 22, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0349f64c0819083b39d8b7960a393 completed March 22, 2026, 6:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0354e95808190b4386e2796291dba completed March 22, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:36 p.m.