Triple

T8911773
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sherston’s Progress E212198 entity
Predicate hasTitleCharacterSurname P63063 FINISHED
Object Sherston
Sherston is the fictional alter ego of British poet and writer Siegfried Sassoon, featured as the central character in his semi-autobiographical "Sherston" trilogy about World War I.
E765738 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Sherston | Statement: [Sherston’s Progress, hasTitleCharacterSurname, Sherston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sherston
Context triple: [Sherston’s Progress, hasTitleCharacterSurname, Sherston]
  • A. Darrow
    Darrow is a surname most famously associated with Clarence Darrow, the prominent American lawyer and civil libertarian known for high-profile cases in the early 20th century.
  • B. Melville Tucker
    Melville Tucker is a film producer best known for his work on the 1980 comedy movie "Stir Crazy."
  • C. Bayard
    Bayard is a small town in Grant County, West Virginia, known historically as a coal and timber community in the Appalachian region.
  • D. Bayard
    Bayard is a masculine given name most notably associated with civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
  • E. Bayard
    Bayard is a small rural city in western Nebraska known for its agricultural community and proximity to landmarks like Chimney Rock.
  • 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: Sherston
Triple: [Sherston’s Progress, hasTitleCharacterSurname, Sherston]
Generated description
Sherston is the fictional alter ego of British poet and writer Siegfried Sassoon, featured as the central character in his semi-autobiographical "Sherston" trilogy about World War I.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sherston
Target entity description: Sherston is the fictional alter ego of British poet and writer Siegfried Sassoon, featured as the central character in his semi-autobiographical "Sherston" trilogy about World War I.
  • A. Darrow
    Darrow is a surname most famously associated with Clarence Darrow, the prominent American lawyer and civil libertarian known for high-profile cases in the early 20th century.
  • B. Melville Tucker
    Melville Tucker is a film producer best known for his work on the 1980 comedy movie "Stir Crazy."
  • C. Bayard
    Bayard is a masculine given name most notably associated with civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
  • D. Bayard
    Bayard is a small town in Grant County, West Virginia, known historically as a coal and timber community in the Appalachian region.
  • E. Bayard
    Bayard is a small rural city in western Nebraska known for its agricultural community and proximity to landmarks like Chimney Rock.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: hasTitleCharacterSurname
Context triple: [Sherston’s Progress, hasTitleCharacterSurname, Sherston]
  • A. hasSurnameType
    Indicates that an entity’s surname belongs to a particular category or type (e.g., patronymic, toponymic, occupational).
  • B. hasComponentSurname
    Indicates that an entity’s full name includes a specified surname as one of its component parts.
  • C. hasBaseSurname
    Indicates that an entity’s surname is derived from, or fundamentally corresponds to, a specified base or canonical surname.
  • D. hasTitleFrom
    Indicates that one entity holds or uses a title that originates from, or is conferred by, another entity.
  • E. hasTitleNamesake chosen
    Indicates that one entity serves as the namesake or source of the title borne by another entity.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69ca8393b1808190bd4336787ffa2c40 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc6523b9348190a7cefac9e73e2004 completed April 1, 2026, 12:21 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfba3c92c481909589e6a3c9469136 completed April 3, 2026, 1:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfbabf33a08190a18d13b9078c00e2 completed April 3, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfbba71a948190afc03a1df9e5777c completed April 3, 2026, 1:07 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69cc5ecf55248190a29f00fbf99f13c4 completed March 31, 2026, 11:54 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:55 p.m.