Triple

T9356500
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Prayer for Owen Meany E225152 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Rev. Louis Merrill
Rev. Louis Merrill is a fictional clergyman who plays a significant spiritual and narrative role in John Irving's novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany."
E794105 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: Rev. Louis Merrill | Statement: [A Prayer for Owen Meany, hasCharacter, Rev. Louis Merrill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rev. Louis Merrill
Context triple: [A Prayer for Owen Meany, hasCharacter, Rev. Louis Merrill]
  • A. Rev. William C. French
    Rev. William C. French was a 19th-century clergyman and educator known for establishing institutions dedicated to the higher education of women.
  • B. Rev. Leonard Neale
    Rev. Leonard Neale was an American Catholic priest and later Archbishop of Baltimore who played a key role in early U.S. Catholic education and religious life.
  • C. Reverend Harris G. Joplin
    Reverend Harris G. Joplin was a 19th-century Methodist minister and early settler after whom the city of Joplin, Missouri, was named.
  • D. Reverend B. Elton Cox
    Reverend B. Elton Cox was a civil rights leader and clergyman known for challenging restrictions on peaceful protest in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Cox v. Louisiana.
  • E. Reverend William Trimble Beatty
    Reverend William Trimble Beatty was a 19th-century Presbyterian minister and educator best known for establishing what would become Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • 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: Rev. Louis Merrill
Triple: [A Prayer for Owen Meany, hasCharacter, Rev. Louis Merrill]
Generated description
Rev. Louis Merrill is a fictional clergyman who plays a significant spiritual and narrative role in John Irving's novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rev. Louis Merrill
Target entity description: Rev. Louis Merrill is a fictional clergyman who plays a significant spiritual and narrative role in John Irving's novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany."
  • A. Rev. William C. French
    Rev. William C. French was a 19th-century clergyman and educator known for establishing institutions dedicated to the higher education of women.
  • B. Rev. Leonard Neale
    Rev. Leonard Neale was an American Catholic priest and later Archbishop of Baltimore who played a key role in early U.S. Catholic education and religious life.
  • C. Reverend Harris G. Joplin
    Reverend Harris G. Joplin was a 19th-century Methodist minister and early settler after whom the city of Joplin, Missouri, was named.
  • D. Reverend B. Elton Cox
    Reverend B. Elton Cox was a civil rights leader and clergyman known for challenging restrictions on peaceful protest in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Cox v. Louisiana.
  • E. Reverend William Trimble Beatty
    Reverend William Trimble Beatty was a 19th-century Presbyterian minister and educator best known for establishing what would become Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • 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.