Triple

T9962511
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Case of Charles Dexter Ward E195601 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Charles Dexter Ward
Charles Dexter Ward is a fictional young antiquarian from Providence whose obsession with his occult ancestry leads to madness and horror in H. P. Lovecraft’s novella.
E831575 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: Charles Dexter Ward | Statement: [The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, mainCharacter, Charles Dexter Ward]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Dexter Ward
Context triple: [The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, mainCharacter, Charles Dexter Ward]
  • A. Edgar Ravenswood
    Edgar Ravenswood is the tragic, ill-fated Scottish nobleman who serves as the doomed romantic hero of Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Bride of Lammermoor."
  • B. Victor Comstock
    Victor Comstock is a central character on the 1990s AMC television series "Remember WENN," serving as the idealistic station manager of the fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN.
  • C. Hugo Davenport
    Hugo Davenport is the son of English actor Nigel Davenport, known primarily in relation to his father's prominence in British film and television.
  • D. Denys Hawthorne
    Denys Hawthorne was a Northern Irish actor known for his work in British television, film, and theatre.
  • E. Silas Talbot
    Silas Talbot was an American naval officer and privateer who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War and later commanded U.S. naval forces in the early national period.
  • 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: Charles Dexter Ward
Triple: [The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, mainCharacter, Charles Dexter Ward]
Generated description
Charles Dexter Ward is a fictional young antiquarian from Providence whose obsession with his occult ancestry leads to madness and horror in H. P. Lovecraft’s novella.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Dexter Ward
Target entity description: Charles Dexter Ward is a fictional young antiquarian from Providence whose obsession with his occult ancestry leads to madness and horror in H. P. Lovecraft’s novella.
  • A. Edgar Ravenswood
    Edgar Ravenswood is the tragic, ill-fated Scottish nobleman who serves as the doomed romantic hero of Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Bride of Lammermoor."
  • B. Victor Comstock
    Victor Comstock is a central character on the 1990s AMC television series "Remember WENN," serving as the idealistic station manager of the fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN.
  • C. Hugo Davenport
    Hugo Davenport is the son of English actor Nigel Davenport, known primarily in relation to his father's prominence in British film and television.
  • D. Denys Hawthorne
    Denys Hawthorne was a Northern Irish actor known for his work in British television, film, and theatre.
  • E. Silas Talbot
    Silas Talbot was an American naval officer and privateer who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War and later commanded U.S. naval forces in the early national period.
  • 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_69ca82ebd1288190912f9e4482d1fa35 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb6d37f0c8190946b958c399f3250 completed April 2, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d23d993404819089c9a71d03721e0b completed April 5, 2026, 10:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d23ec0a63c819082c2458aff4ae79e completed April 5, 2026, 10:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d23f560f28819080716aabd7f4ff32 completed April 5, 2026, 10:54 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:47 p.m.