Triple

T5600881
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billy Budd E147115 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Captain Edward Fairfax Vere
Captain Edward Fairfax Vere is the morally conflicted naval commander in Herman Melville’s novella "Billy Budd," whose strict adherence to martial law leads him to condemn the innocent sailor Billy.
E533659 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: Captain Edward Fairfax Vere | Statement: [Billy Budd, mainCharacter, Captain Edward Fairfax Vere]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Edward Fairfax Vere
Context triple: [Billy Budd, mainCharacter, Captain Edward Fairfax Vere]
  • A. Viscount Melville
    Viscount Melville is a Scottish peerage title historically associated with Henry Dundas, an influential late 18th- and early 19th-century British politician and statesman.
  • B. Sir George Rooke
    Sir George Rooke was a prominent English admiral of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, noted for his leadership in major naval engagements during the Nine Years’ War and the War of the Spanish Succession.
  • C. Captain Philip Vian
    Captain Philip Vian was a distinguished Royal Navy officer and World War II destroyer commander renowned for his aggressive leadership in actions such as the Altmark incident and major naval battles.
  • D. Admiral Sir Rhoderick McGrigor
    Admiral Sir Rhoderick McGrigor was a senior Royal Navy officer who rose to the highest seagoing commands during and after the Second World War, ultimately serving as First Sea Lord.
  • E. Baron Jellicoe
    Baron Jellicoe is a British peerage title created for Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, the First World War naval commander and former First Sea Lord.
  • 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: Captain Edward Fairfax Vere
Triple: [Billy Budd, mainCharacter, Captain Edward Fairfax Vere]
Generated description
Captain Edward Fairfax Vere is the morally conflicted naval commander in Herman Melville’s novella "Billy Budd," whose strict adherence to martial law leads him to condemn the innocent sailor Billy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain Edward Fairfax Vere
Target entity description: Captain Edward Fairfax Vere is the morally conflicted naval commander in Herman Melville’s novella "Billy Budd," whose strict adherence to martial law leads him to condemn the innocent sailor Billy.
  • A. Viscount Melville
    Viscount Melville is a Scottish peerage title historically associated with Henry Dundas, an influential late 18th- and early 19th-century British politician and statesman.
  • B. Sir George Rooke
    Sir George Rooke was a prominent English admiral of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, noted for his leadership in major naval engagements during the Nine Years’ War and the War of the Spanish Succession.
  • C. Captain Philip Vian
    Captain Philip Vian was a distinguished Royal Navy officer and World War II destroyer commander renowned for his aggressive leadership in actions such as the Altmark incident and major naval battles.
  • D. Admiral Sir Rhoderick McGrigor
    Admiral Sir Rhoderick McGrigor was a senior Royal Navy officer who rose to the highest seagoing commands during and after the Second World War, ultimately serving as First Sea Lord.
  • E. Baron Jellicoe
    Baron Jellicoe is a British peerage title created for Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, the First World War naval commander and former First Sea Lord.
  • 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_69c009043d648190a7af89698ccf1e3e completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c020da519c81908626b243e40db263 completed March 22, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c02873b1dc8190b11a6c069f3e4f7e completed March 22, 2026, 5:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c035f54f6c8190badbfd800012c399 completed March 22, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c036f0edb48190bfa74f7f2c9d9ab1 completed March 22, 2026, 6:37 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:38 p.m.