Triple

T5600897
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Billy Budd E147115 entity
Predicate posthumouslyEditedBy P64983 FINISHED
Object Harrison Hayford
Harrison Hayford was an American literary scholar and Melville specialist best known for his authoritative editorial work on Herman Melville’s writings.
E551493 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: Harrison Hayford | Statement: [Billy Budd, posthumouslyEditedBy, Harrison Hayford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harrison Hayford
Context triple: [Billy Budd, posthumouslyEditedBy, Harrison Hayford]
  • A. John Peabody Harrington
    John Peabody Harrington was an American linguist and ethnographer renowned for his extensive documentation of Native American languages and cultures, particularly in California.
  • B. G. E. H. Palmer
    G. E. H. Palmer was a British scholar and translator best known for co-translating the influential Eastern Orthodox spiritual anthology *The Philokalia* into English.
  • C. John Howard Redfield
    John Howard Redfield was a 19th-century American botanist and naturalist known for his contributions to the study and classification of North American plant species.
  • D. Robert G. Bratcher
    Robert G. Bratcher was an American Bible scholar and translator best known as the principal translator of the Good News Bible (Today’s English Version).
  • E. H. Stuart Hughes
    H. Stuart Hughes was an American historian and intellectual known for his work on European intellectual history and his involvement in mid-20th-century liberal politics.
  • 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: Harrison Hayford
Triple: [Billy Budd, posthumouslyEditedBy, Harrison Hayford]
Generated description
Harrison Hayford was an American literary scholar and Melville specialist best known for his authoritative editorial work on Herman Melville’s writings.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harrison Hayford
Target entity description: Harrison Hayford was an American literary scholar and Melville specialist best known for his authoritative editorial work on Herman Melville’s writings.
  • A. John Peabody Harrington
    John Peabody Harrington was an American linguist and ethnographer renowned for his extensive documentation of Native American languages and cultures, particularly in California.
  • B. G. E. H. Palmer
    G. E. H. Palmer was a British scholar and translator best known for co-translating the influential Eastern Orthodox spiritual anthology *The Philokalia* into English.
  • C. John Howard Redfield
    John Howard Redfield was a 19th-century American botanist and naturalist known for his contributions to the study and classification of North American plant species.
  • D. Robert G. Bratcher
    Robert G. Bratcher was an American Bible scholar and translator best known as the principal translator of the Good News Bible (Today’s English Version).
  • E. H. Stuart Hughes
    H. Stuart Hughes was an American historian and intellectual known for his work on European intellectual history and his involvement in mid-20th-century liberal politics.
  • 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_69c021d8d600819097df4e265e262d90 completed March 22, 2026, 5:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0a142ae8c8190a8c4a02bb3f69ff2 completed March 23, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0a1faf7d48190ad2d5f43ef37da82 completed March 23, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0a2e17cd88190a54f5166fe5c654a completed March 23, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:38 p.m.