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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.