Triple
T9359690
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | "The Custom-House" introduction to "The Scarlet Letter" |
E225246
|
entity |
| Predicate | settingLocation |
P40
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Salem Custom House |
E44117
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Salem Custom House | Statement: ["The Custom-House" introduction to "The Scarlet Letter", settingLocation, Salem Custom House]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Salem Custom House Context triple: ["The Custom-House" introduction to "The Scarlet Letter", settingLocation, Salem Custom House]
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A.
Boston Custom House
The Boston Custom House is a historic 19th-century government building and former customs facility in Boston, Massachusetts, best known for its iconic clock tower that once made it the city’s tallest structure.
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B.
United States Custom House in Salem
chosen
The United States Custom House in Salem is a historic federal building and former customs office in Salem, Massachusetts, best known today for its association with author Nathaniel Hawthorne, who worked there and drew on it for the introduction to "The Scarlet Letter."
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C.
United States Custom House
The United States Custom House is a historic federal building in New York City that once served as the primary customs collection point for the bustling port, reflecting the city’s central role in American trade and finance.
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D.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic sandstone building at Sydney’s Circular Quay that once served as the city’s main customs office and now functions as a cultural and civic venue.
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E.
Customs House
Customs House is a historic neoclassical waterfront building on Shanghai’s Bund, long serving as a key symbol of the city’s colonial-era commercial and maritime trade.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69cd4ff2ca9081908ccc88651640ed84 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 5:03 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d0f3e27cac8190a48393fa4bdff6b8 |
completed | April 4, 2026, 11:20 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:42 p.m.