Triple

T9356499
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Prayer for Owen Meany E225152 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Hester Eastman
Hester Eastman is a minor character in John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," appearing as part of the extended social and familial world surrounding the book’s central figures.
E794104 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: Hester Eastman | Statement: [A Prayer for Owen Meany, hasCharacter, Hester Eastman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hester Eastman
Context triple: [A Prayer for Owen Meany, hasCharacter, Hester Eastman]
  • A. Hester Sigerson
    Hester Sigerson was the mother of Irish poet Dora Sigerson Shorter and a member of the culturally active Sigerson family associated with Ireland’s literary and nationalist circles.
  • B. Hester Mahieu
    Hester Mahieu was a member of the Leiden Separatist community and the wife of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke, making her part of the early 17th-century English Pilgrim circle associated with the founding of Plymouth Colony.
  • C. Hester Pitt
    Hester Pitt was a daughter of British statesman William Pitt the Elder, belonging to a prominent 18th-century political family.
  • D. Hester Dewsbury
    Hester Dewsbury was the wife of early Plymouth Colony settler Philip Delano, associated with the first generations of English colonists in New England.
  • E. Hester Prynne
    Hester Prynne is the resilient, ostracized heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, known for bearing an illegitimate child and defiantly wearing the scarlet letter “A” as a symbol of both shame and strength in Puritan New England.
  • 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: Hester Eastman
Triple: [A Prayer for Owen Meany, hasCharacter, Hester Eastman]
Generated description
Hester Eastman is a minor character in John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," appearing as part of the extended social and familial world surrounding the book’s central figures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hester Eastman
Target entity description: Hester Eastman is a minor character in John Irving’s novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," appearing as part of the extended social and familial world surrounding the book’s central figures.
  • A. Hester Sigerson
    Hester Sigerson was the mother of Irish poet Dora Sigerson Shorter and a member of the culturally active Sigerson family associated with Ireland’s literary and nationalist circles.
  • B. Hester Mahieu
    Hester Mahieu was a member of the Leiden Separatist community and the wife of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke, making her part of the early 17th-century English Pilgrim circle associated with the founding of Plymouth Colony.
  • C. Hester Pitt
    Hester Pitt was a daughter of British statesman William Pitt the Elder, belonging to a prominent 18th-century political family.
  • D. Hester Dewsbury
    Hester Dewsbury was the wife of early Plymouth Colony settler Philip Delano, associated with the first generations of English colonists in New England.
  • E. Hester Prynne
    Hester Prynne is the resilient, ostracized heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, known for bearing an illegitimate child and defiantly wearing the scarlet letter “A” as a symbol of both shame and strength in Puritan New England.
  • 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_69ca842abfd48190949d71c3b86eeba8 completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd4fee9d4c8190a7d121c9487ccca2 completed April 1, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0f3d248a88190b7d17af66e2903c5 completed April 4, 2026, 11:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0f46bd034819093e7157a3e1ac1fc completed April 4, 2026, 11:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0f5bf64548190b40e97b279db5105 completed April 4, 2026, 11:27 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:42 p.m.