Triple

T9358588
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment E225214 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Mr. Medbourne
Mr. Medbourne is a fictional former merchant in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment,” known for having lost his fortune through reckless speculation.
E794666 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: Mr. Medbourne | Statement: [Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment, character, Mr. Medbourne]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr. Medbourne
Context triple: [Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment, character, Mr. Medbourne]
  • A. Mr. Furnival
    Mr. Furnival is a prominent London barrister in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm," known for his legal skill, social ambition, and complex personal life.
  • B. Mr. Bedford
    Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
  • C. Thomas Mildmay
    Thomas Mildmay was a 16th-century English politician and courtier, known as the son of statesman Sir Walter Mildmay and for serving in various administrative and parliamentary roles under the Tudor monarchy.
  • D. Sir Walter Mildmay
    Sir Walter Mildmay was a 16th-century English statesman and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Queen Elizabeth I, noted for his influential role in government and support of education and Puritan reform.
  • E. Mr. Lewisham
    Mr. Lewisham is the ambitious young schoolteacher protagonist of H. G. Wells's novel "Love and Mr. Lewisham," whose ideals and aspirations are tested by love and social constraints.
  • 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: Mr. Medbourne
Triple: [Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment, character, Mr. Medbourne]
Generated description
Mr. Medbourne is a fictional former merchant in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment,” known for having lost his fortune through reckless speculation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr. Medbourne
Target entity description: Mr. Medbourne is a fictional former merchant in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment,” known for having lost his fortune through reckless speculation.
  • A. Mr. Furnival
    Mr. Furnival is a prominent London barrister in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm," known for his legal skill, social ambition, and complex personal life.
  • B. Mr. Bedford
    Mr. Bedford is the pragmatic, often self-interested narrator and businessman who accompanies the eccentric scientist Cavor to the Moon in H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The First Men in the Moon."
  • C. Thomas Mildmay
    Thomas Mildmay was a 16th-century English politician and courtier, known as the son of statesman Sir Walter Mildmay and for serving in various administrative and parliamentary roles under the Tudor monarchy.
  • D. Sir Walter Mildmay
    Sir Walter Mildmay was a 16th-century English statesman and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Queen Elizabeth I, noted for his influential role in government and support of education and Puritan reform.
  • E. Mr. Lewisham
    Mr. Lewisham is the ambitious young schoolteacher protagonist of H. G. Wells's novel "Love and Mr. Lewisham," whose ideals and aspirations are tested by love and social constraints.
  • 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_69ca842bdd648190904131d58620d448 completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd4ff19ab48190a8d85c8ac2644c89 completed April 1, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0f3da85d48190966682b0f1965a53 completed April 4, 2026, 11:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0f619e91081909c2ec17e89376295 completed April 4, 2026, 11:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0f6ce1a0c8190aca34958935e0e59 completed April 4, 2026, 11:32 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:42 p.m.