Triple
T9359850
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
E225249
|
entity |
| Predicate | birthName |
P65
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Nathaniel Hathorne |
E44120
|
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: Nathaniel Hathorne | Statement: [Nathaniel Hawthorne, birthName, Nathaniel Hathorne]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nathaniel Hathorne Context triple: [Nathaniel Hawthorne, birthName, Nathaniel Hathorne]
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A.
Nathaniel Hathorne Sr.
chosen
Nathaniel Hathorne Sr. was a New England sea captain and the father of American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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B.
Thomas Putnam
Thomas Putnam was a prominent and influential accuser during the Salem witch trials, known for aggressively pursuing witchcraft charges against many of his neighbors.
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C.
Roger Chillingworth
Roger Chillingworth is the vengeful, estranged husband of Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel "The Scarlet Letter," who obsessively seeks to torment her secret lover.
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D.
John Hathorne
John Hathorne was a prominent 17th-century Massachusetts magistrate best known for his zealous role as an examining judge during the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Reverend John Hale
Reverend John Hale is a devout, intellectually confident minister and witchcraft expert whose moral transformation and growing doubt about the Salem trials form a central arc in Arthur Miller’s play *The Crucible*.
- 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.