Triple

T995793
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Margaret Schlegel E21491 entity
Predicate associatedWithFamily P566 FINISHED
Object Bast family
The Bast family is a lower-middle-class household in E.M. Forster’s novel "Howards End," whose struggles and aspirations contrast with the more privileged Schlegel and Wilcox families.
E117467 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: Bast family | Statement: [Margaret Schlegel, associatedWithFamily, Bast family]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bast family
Context triple: [Margaret Schlegel, associatedWithFamily, Bast family]
  • A. Halas family
    The Halas family is a prominent American sports family best known for founding and long owning the NFL’s Chicago Bears through legendary figure George Halas.
  • B. Sununu family
    The Sununu family is a prominent American political family from New Hampshire known for producing multiple high-profile Republican officeholders, including a governor and a White House chief of staff.
  • C. Torwa dynasty
    The Torwa dynasty was a precolonial Shona ruling house that controlled southwestern Zimbabwe from its capital at Khami, succeeding Great Zimbabwe as a major regional power.
  • D. Neustadt family
    The Neustadt family is a philanthropic family known for endowing and supporting the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
  • E. Metlar family
    The Metlar family was a historically significant local family associated with the Metlar–Bodine House in New Jersey, whose name the historic house museum now bears.
  • 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: Bast family
Triple: [Margaret Schlegel, associatedWithFamily, Bast family]
Generated description
The Bast family is a lower-middle-class household in E.M. Forster’s novel "Howards End," whose struggles and aspirations contrast with the more privileged Schlegel and Wilcox families.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bast family
Target entity description: The Bast family is a lower-middle-class household in E.M. Forster’s novel "Howards End," whose struggles and aspirations contrast with the more privileged Schlegel and Wilcox families.
  • A. Halas family
    The Halas family is a prominent American sports family best known for founding and long owning the NFL’s Chicago Bears through legendary figure George Halas.
  • B. Sununu family
    The Sununu family is a prominent American political family from New Hampshire known for producing multiple high-profile Republican officeholders, including a governor and a White House chief of staff.
  • C. Torwa dynasty
    The Torwa dynasty was a precolonial Shona ruling house that controlled southwestern Zimbabwe from its capital at Khami, succeeding Great Zimbabwe as a major regional power.
  • D. Neustadt family
    The Neustadt family is a philanthropic family known for endowing and supporting the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
  • E. Metlar family
    The Metlar family was a historically significant local family associated with the Metlar–Bodine House in New Jersey, whose name the historic house museum now bears.
  • 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_69a493c476b48190b41fc5e793171cc6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b4df6dcc819084a7c0a50637a2c2 completed March 1, 2026, 9:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac2593a6588190b52989e9670d84e3 completed March 7, 2026, 1:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac268798cc81908254b8733437c55e completed March 7, 2026, 1:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac26ee09f0819098a7b1adcbb79053 completed March 7, 2026, 1:23 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.