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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.