Triple

T8316708
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject We Have Always Lived in the Castle E194722 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Uncle Julian Blackwood
Uncle Julian Blackwood is an eccentric, ailing uncle obsessed with documenting the family tragedy in Shirley Jackson’s gothic novel "We Have Always Lived in the Castle."
E725665 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: Uncle Julian Blackwood | Statement: [We Have Always Lived in the Castle, mainCharacter, Uncle Julian Blackwood]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Uncle Julian Blackwood
Context triple: [We Have Always Lived in the Castle, mainCharacter, Uncle Julian Blackwood]
  • A. Enoch Snow
    Enoch Snow is a central character in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel," portrayed as an ambitious fisherman with strong moral values and comic earnestness.
  • B. Gulian McEvers
    Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • C. Jethro Pugh
    Jethro Pugh was an American defensive tackle best known for his long and successful career with the Dallas Cowboys during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • D. Uncle Tom Travers
    Uncle Tom Travers is a recurring character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories, known as Bertie Wooster’s wealthy, short-tempered uncle with a passion for collecting silver.
  • E. Furnifold Simmons
    Furnifold Simmons was a powerful early 20th-century North Carolina Democratic politician and U.S. senator known for orchestrating white supremacist campaigns that entrenched Jim Crow rule in the state.
  • 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: Uncle Julian Blackwood
Triple: [We Have Always Lived in the Castle, mainCharacter, Uncle Julian Blackwood]
Generated description
Uncle Julian Blackwood is an eccentric, ailing uncle obsessed with documenting the family tragedy in Shirley Jackson’s gothic novel "We Have Always Lived in the Castle."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Uncle Julian Blackwood
Target entity description: Uncle Julian Blackwood is an eccentric, ailing uncle obsessed with documenting the family tragedy in Shirley Jackson’s gothic novel "We Have Always Lived in the Castle."
  • A. Enoch Snow
    Enoch Snow is a central character in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel," portrayed as an ambitious fisherman with strong moral values and comic earnestness.
  • B. Gulian McEvers
    Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • C. Jethro Pugh
    Jethro Pugh was an American defensive tackle best known for his long and successful career with the Dallas Cowboys during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • D. Uncle Tom Travers
    Uncle Tom Travers is a recurring character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories, known as Bertie Wooster’s wealthy, short-tempered uncle with a passion for collecting silver.
  • E. Furnifold Simmons
    Furnifold Simmons was a powerful early 20th-century North Carolina Democratic politician and U.S. senator known for orchestrating white supremacist campaigns that entrenched Jim Crow rule in the state.
  • 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.