Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Last Man E163120 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Lionel Verney
Lionel Verney is the introspective, resilient narrator and sole survivor who chronicles humanity’s extinction in Mary Shelley’s apocalyptic novel "The Last Man."
 E654017 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: Lionel Verney | Statement: [The Last Man, mainCharacter, Lionel Verney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lionel Verney
Context triple: [The Last Man, mainCharacter, Lionel Verney]
  • A. George Lumley
    George Lumley is a character in Alfred Hitchcock’s darkly comic thriller "Family Plot," involved in the film’s intertwined mystery and crime plotlines.
  • B. Charles Vereker
    Charles Vereker was an Irish soldier and politician who served as a Member of Parliament in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • C. Baron Verulam
    Baron Verulam is the English noble title held by Francis Bacon, the influential Renaissance philosopher, statesman, and pioneer of the scientific method.
  • D. Guy de Vere
    Guy de Vere is a fictional nobleman and grieving lover who serves as the central speaker in Edgar Allan Poe’s poem "Lenore."
  • E. Thomas Vereker
    Thomas Vereker is a notable individual who shares the Vereker surname, historically associated with Anglo-Irish nobility and public figures.
  • 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: Lionel Verney
Triple: [The Last Man, mainCharacter, Lionel Verney]
Generated description
Lionel Verney is the introspective, resilient narrator and sole survivor who chronicles humanity’s extinction in Mary Shelley’s apocalyptic novel "The Last Man."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Lionel Verney
Target entity description: Lionel Verney is the introspective, resilient narrator and sole survivor who chronicles humanity’s extinction in Mary Shelley’s apocalyptic novel "The Last Man."
  • A. George Lumley
    George Lumley is a character in Alfred Hitchcock’s darkly comic thriller "Family Plot," involved in the film’s intertwined mystery and crime plotlines.
  • B. Charles Vereker
    Charles Vereker was an Irish soldier and politician who served as a Member of Parliament in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • C. Baron Verulam
    Baron Verulam is the English noble title held by Francis Bacon, the influential Renaissance philosopher, statesman, and pioneer of the scientific method.
  • D. Guy de Vere
    Guy de Vere is a fictional nobleman and grieving lover who serves as the central speaker in Edgar Allan Poe’s poem "Lenore."
  • E. Thomas Vereker
    Thomas Vereker is a notable individual who shares the Vereker surname, historically associated with Anglo-Irish nobility and public figures.
  • 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_69c6885c5964819085b209701769877f completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6eb339b1081909f648864e210f98e completed March 27, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7db379e1c81908ebd4c44504ce5fb completed March 28, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7df4788e081908ccc162125c6550d completed March 28, 2026, 2:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7dfa826d081909129df80cca13daa completed March 28, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:59 p.m.