Triple
T5600934
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Elizabeth Shaw Melville |
E147116
|
entity |
| Predicate | child |
P120
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Malcolm Melville
Malcolm Melville was a son of American novelist Herman Melville and his wife Elizabeth Shaw Melville.
|
E533664
|
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: Malcolm Melville | Statement: [Elizabeth Shaw Melville, child, Malcolm Melville]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Malcolm Melville Context triple: [Elizabeth Shaw Melville, child, Malcolm Melville]
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A.
Tobias Furneaux
Tobias Furneaux was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for accompanying James Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific.
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B.
Jeremiah O’Brien
Jeremiah O’Brien was an American Revolutionary War naval captain from Maine who led one of the first naval engagements against the British at the Battle of Machias in 1775.
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C.
John Malcolm Bulloch
John Malcolm Bulloch was a Scottish journalist, literary scholar, and genealogist known for his work on Scottish literature and the history of the Gordon family.
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D.
William Bainbridge
William Bainbridge was a prominent early U.S. Navy officer best known for commanding the frigate USS Constitution to a major victory over HMS Java in the War of 1812.
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E.
Louis Scatcherd
Louis Scatcherd is a character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Doctor Thorne," known as the dissipated son of a wealthy railway magnate whose lifestyle and inheritance are central to the story’s social and moral conflicts.
- 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: Malcolm Melville Triple: [Elizabeth Shaw Melville, child, Malcolm Melville]
Generated description
Malcolm Melville was a son of American novelist Herman Melville and his wife Elizabeth Shaw Melville.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Malcolm Melville Target entity description: Malcolm Melville was a son of American novelist Herman Melville and his wife Elizabeth Shaw Melville.
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A.
Tobias Furneaux
Tobias Furneaux was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for accompanying James Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific.
-
B.
Jeremiah O’Brien
Jeremiah O’Brien was an American Revolutionary War naval captain from Maine who led one of the first naval engagements against the British at the Battle of Machias in 1775.
-
C.
John Malcolm Bulloch
John Malcolm Bulloch was a Scottish journalist, literary scholar, and genealogist known for his work on Scottish literature and the history of the Gordon family.
-
D.
William Bainbridge
William Bainbridge was a prominent early U.S. Navy officer best known for commanding the frigate USS Constitution to a major victory over HMS Java in the War of 1812.
-
E.
Louis Scatcherd
Louis Scatcherd is a character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Doctor Thorne," known as the dissipated son of a wealthy railway magnate whose lifestyle and inheritance are central to the story’s social and moral conflicts.
- 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, 3:39 p.m.