Triple

T6898289
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Old Wives’ Tale E159428 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Samuel Povey
Samuel Povey is a central fictional character in Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Old Wives’ Tale," portrayed as a diligent, conservative draper whose marriage and domestic life reflect the social and economic changes of late 19th-century provincial England.
E633460 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: Samuel Povey | Statement: [The Old Wives’ Tale, mainCharacter, Samuel Povey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Povey
Context triple: [The Old Wives’ Tale, mainCharacter, Samuel Povey]
  • A. Anthony Peckham
    Anthony Peckham is a South African–born screenwriter best known for scripting films such as "Invictus" and "Sherlock Holmes."
  • B. Samuel Ward
    Samuel Ward was a 19th-century American banker and art patron known for commissioning significant works such as Thomas Cole’s "The Voyage of Life" series.
  • C. Geoffry Powell
    Geoffry Powell was a British architect best known as one of the designers of London's influential Barbican Estate, a landmark of post-war modernist architecture.
  • D. Charles Siddall
    Charles Siddall was a family member of the Pre-Raphaelite-associated artist and poet Elizabeth Siddal, belonging to the same Victorian-era Siddall/Siddall family circle.
  • E. Samuel Pearson
    Samuel Pearson was a British entrepreneur and publisher best known for establishing the company that evolved into the global education and publishing corporation Pearson plc.
  • 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: Samuel Povey
Triple: [The Old Wives’ Tale, mainCharacter, Samuel Povey]
Generated description
Samuel Povey is a central fictional character in Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Old Wives’ Tale," portrayed as a diligent, conservative draper whose marriage and domestic life reflect the social and economic changes of late 19th-century provincial England.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Povey
Target entity description: Samuel Povey is a central fictional character in Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Old Wives’ Tale," portrayed as a diligent, conservative draper whose marriage and domestic life reflect the social and economic changes of late 19th-century provincial England.
  • A. Anthony Peckham
    Anthony Peckham is a South African–born screenwriter best known for scripting films such as "Invictus" and "Sherlock Holmes."
  • B. Samuel Ward
    Samuel Ward was a 19th-century American banker and art patron known for commissioning significant works such as Thomas Cole’s "The Voyage of Life" series.
  • C. Geoffry Powell
    Geoffry Powell was a British architect best known as one of the designers of London's influential Barbican Estate, a landmark of post-war modernist architecture.
  • D. Charles Siddall
    Charles Siddall was a family member of the Pre-Raphaelite-associated artist and poet Elizabeth Siddal, belonging to the same Victorian-era Siddall/Siddall family circle.
  • E. Samuel Pearson
    Samuel Pearson was a British entrepreneur and publisher best known for establishing the company that evolved into the global education and publishing corporation Pearson plc.
  • 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_69c6883822e0819091e321526f20ae0a completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d95d67448190857f36b8115b03f6 completed March 27, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7617d81288190b38a67552f228933 completed March 28, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7629031608190b1ef76e969c97925 completed March 28, 2026, 5:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c76329a47081909b47894ba0e1cad1 completed March 28, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:24 p.m.