Triple
T8679510
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Silas Lapham |
E205999
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Silas Lapham |
E205999
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Silas Lapham | Statement: [Silas Lapham, fullName, Silas Lapham]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silas Lapham Context triple: [Silas Lapham, fullName, Silas Lapham]
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A.
Silas Lapham
chosen
Silas Lapham is a self-made American paint magnate whose moral and social struggles in Gilded Age Boston form the center of William Dean Howells’s realist novel.
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B.
Hosea Biglow
Hosea Biglow is a fictional New England farmer and dialect-speaking narrator created by James Russell Lowell to satirize politics and society in "The Biglow Papers."
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C.
Silas Phelps
Silas Phelps is a kindly but morally conflicted Southern farmer and slave owner who appears as Tom Sawyer’s uncle in Mark Twain’s novel "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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D.
Thomas Buddenbrook
Thomas Buddenbrook is the ambitious yet increasingly disillusioned head of a wealthy merchant family in Thomas Mann’s novel "Buddenbrooks," whose life reflects the decline of his bourgeois dynasty.
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E.
Winthrop Paroo
Winthrop Paroo is the shy, lisping young boy in Meredith Willson’s musical "The Music Man," whose transformation and newfound confidence symbolize the positive impact of Professor Harold Hill on the town.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca835379688190aa06b9d98e684d58 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc49f8fa948190a070e90d17b4ede2 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 10:26 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cef3b2be2081908a8744b77c4753f2 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 10:54 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:32 p.m.