Triple
T9225407
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Irene Lapham |
E221669
|
entity |
| Predicate | parent |
P120
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Silas Lapham |
E205999
|
NE FINISHED |
Named-entity recognition
Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.
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: [Irene Lapham, parent, Silas Lapham]
Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)
The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silas Lapham Context triple: [Irene Lapham, parent, 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)
| Stage | Batch ID | Job type | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| creating | batch_69ca83ec8db08190a9110df8232885d2 |
elicitation | completed |
| NER | batch_69ccda9dbd1481909f35a4bee8e0b450 |
ner | completed |
| NED1 | batch_69d0779de5a88190b6a9266c976e05b1 |
ned_source_triple | completed |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:28 p.m.