Triple
T8679547
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Silas Lapham |
E205999
|
entity |
| Predicate | associatedWithFamily |
P566
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Lapham family
The Lapham family is a fictional Boston household at the center of William Dean Howells’s novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," representing themes of social mobility, morality, and Gilded Age society.
|
E752112
|
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: Lapham family | Statement: [Silas Lapham, associatedWithFamily, Lapham family]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lapham family Context triple: [Silas Lapham, associatedWithFamily, Lapham family]
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A.
Phillips family
The Phillips family is a prominent New England lineage known for its influential roles in early American politics, education, and society.
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B.
Phipps family
The Phipps family is a prominent American industrial and philanthropic dynasty, historically linked to steel magnate Henry Phipps Jr. and known for its wealth, estates, and charitable activities.
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C.
Apthorp family
The Apthorp family is a prominent New England lineage known for its influence in colonial American commerce, politics, and society.
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D.
Royall family
The Royall family was a wealthy colonial New England dynasty whose fortune, built in part on slavery and Caribbean plantations, is historically linked to early American institutions such as Harvard Law School.
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E.
Forrester family
The Forrester family is a central fictional dynasty in the soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful," known for running the high-fashion house Forrester Creations and for their dramatic personal and professional entanglements.
- 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: Lapham family Triple: [Silas Lapham, associatedWithFamily, Lapham family]
Generated description
The Lapham family is a fictional Boston household at the center of William Dean Howells’s novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," representing themes of social mobility, morality, and Gilded Age society.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lapham family Target entity description: The Lapham family is a fictional Boston household at the center of William Dean Howells’s novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," representing themes of social mobility, morality, and Gilded Age society.
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A.
Phillips family
The Phillips family is a prominent New England lineage known for its influential roles in early American politics, education, and society.
-
B.
Phipps family
The Phipps family is a prominent American industrial and philanthropic dynasty, historically linked to steel magnate Henry Phipps Jr. and known for its wealth, estates, and charitable activities.
-
C.
Apthorp family
The Apthorp family is a prominent New England lineage known for its influence in colonial American commerce, politics, and society.
-
D.
Royall family
The Royall family was a wealthy colonial New England dynasty whose fortune, built in part on slavery and Caribbean plantations, is historically linked to early American institutions such as Harvard Law School.
-
E.
Forrester family
The Forrester family is a central fictional dynasty in the soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful," known for running the high-fashion house Forrester Creations and for their dramatic personal and professional entanglements.
- 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_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. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69cef52000048190bc5451cfb6446ced |
completed | April 2, 2026, 11 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69cef809df548190b4f9ecc709b3b065 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 11:13 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:32 p.m.