Triple

T8316705
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject We Have Always Lived in the Castle E194722 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Mary Katherine Blackwood
Mary Katherine Blackwood is the reclusive, unsettlingly cheerful and possibly unreliable young narrator of Shirley Jackson’s gothic novel "We Have Always Lived in the Castle," known for her morbid obsessions and deep mistrust of the outside world.
E725664 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: Mary Katherine Blackwood | Statement: [We Have Always Lived in the Castle, mainCharacter, Mary Katherine Blackwood]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Katherine Blackwood
Context triple: [We Have Always Lived in the Castle, mainCharacter, Mary Katherine Blackwood]
  • A. Katherine Thorn
    Katherine Thorn is a central character in the 1976 horror film "The Omen," portrayed as the adoptive mother of the sinister child Damien.
  • B. Eleanor Black
    Eleanor Black is a fictional character from the television series "The Vampire Diaries," known as a witch and member of the powerful Black family.
  • C. Mary Desha
    Mary Desha was an American educator and civic leader best known as one of the four co-founders of the patriotic lineage organization Daughters of the American Revolution.
  • D. Caroline Blackwood
    Caroline Blackwood was a British writer and heiress known for her darkly comic novels and memoirs, as well as her connections to the Bloomsbury and literary circles of the mid-20th century.
  • E. Katherine Schofield
    Katherine Schofield is an actress known for her role in the biographical television film "The Josephine Baker Story."
  • 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: Mary Katherine Blackwood
Triple: [We Have Always Lived in the Castle, mainCharacter, Mary Katherine Blackwood]
Generated description
Mary Katherine Blackwood is the reclusive, unsettlingly cheerful and possibly unreliable young narrator of Shirley Jackson’s gothic novel "We Have Always Lived in the Castle," known for her morbid obsessions and deep mistrust of the outside world.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Katherine Blackwood
Target entity description: Mary Katherine Blackwood is the reclusive, unsettlingly cheerful and possibly unreliable young narrator of Shirley Jackson’s gothic novel "We Have Always Lived in the Castle," known for her morbid obsessions and deep mistrust of the outside world.
  • A. Katherine Thorn
    Katherine Thorn is a central character in the 1976 horror film "The Omen," portrayed as the adoptive mother of the sinister child Damien.
  • B. Eleanor Black
    Eleanor Black is a fictional character from the television series "The Vampire Diaries," known as a witch and member of the powerful Black family.
  • C. Mary Desha
    Mary Desha was an American educator and civic leader best known as one of the four co-founders of the patriotic lineage organization Daughters of the American Revolution.
  • D. Caroline Blackwood
    Caroline Blackwood was a British writer and heiress known for her darkly comic novels and memoirs, as well as her connections to the Bloomsbury and literary circles of the mid-20th century.
  • E. Katherine Schofield
    Katherine Schofield is an actress known for her role in the biographical television film "The Josephine Baker Story."
  • 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_69ca82e6e2648190a31eaf6f4f757b2a completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb7f557a7881908adcf353f7297848 completed March 31, 2026, 8:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd958cf0808190af59e36c35b91e58 completed April 1, 2026, 10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdab5d649c819098a7643d5a0b7827 completed April 1, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cdb2c2e2248190bf52466abaebfe29 completed April 2, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:55 p.m.