Triple

T6898290
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Old Wives’ Tale E159428 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Gerald Scales
Gerald Scales is a central fictional character in Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Old Wives’ Tale," whose actions and relationships significantly shape the lives and fortunes of the story’s protagonists.
E628316 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: Gerald Scales | Statement: [The Old Wives’ Tale, mainCharacter, Gerald Scales]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gerald Scales
Context triple: [The Old Wives’ Tale, mainCharacter, Gerald Scales]
  • A. Gerald Wilkins
    Gerald Wilkins is a former American professional basketball shooting guard who played primarily for the New York Knicks in the NBA during the 1980s and 1990s.
  • B. Gerald Austin
    Gerald Austin is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in multiple Super Bowls, including Super Bowl XXXV.
  • C. Cal Henderson
    Cal Henderson is a British software engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CTO of the workplace communication platform Slack.
  • D. Clifton McNeely
    Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
  • E. Sam Haskins
    Sam Haskins was a South African-born British photographer best known for his influential 1960s fashion and nude photography, particularly the book "Cowboy Kate & Other Stories."
  • 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: Gerald Scales
Triple: [The Old Wives’ Tale, mainCharacter, Gerald Scales]
Generated description
Gerald Scales is a central fictional character in Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Old Wives’ Tale," whose actions and relationships significantly shape the lives and fortunes of the story’s protagonists.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gerald Scales
Target entity description: Gerald Scales is a central fictional character in Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Old Wives’ Tale," whose actions and relationships significantly shape the lives and fortunes of the story’s protagonists.
  • A. Gerald Wilkins
    Gerald Wilkins is a former American professional basketball shooting guard who played primarily for the New York Knicks in the NBA during the 1980s and 1990s.
  • B. Gerald Austin
    Gerald Austin is a former National Football League official best known for serving as the referee in multiple Super Bowls, including Super Bowl XXXV.
  • C. Cal Henderson
    Cal Henderson is a British software engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CTO of the workplace communication platform Slack.
  • D. Clifton McNeely
    Clifton McNeely was an American basketball player and coach known for being the first overall pick in the inaugural 1947 BAA (now NBA) draft.
  • E. Sam Haskins
    Sam Haskins was a South African-born British photographer best known for his influential 1960s fashion and nude photography, particularly the book "Cowboy Kate & Other Stories."
  • 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_69c7512268ec81908e2f751a585cb8da completed March 28, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c751f828408190ba6f918665b5581a completed March 28, 2026, 3:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7524fd1988190b82ed3a6c5f338a5 completed March 28, 2026, 4 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:24 p.m.