Triple

T9962513
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Case of Charles Dexter Ward E195601 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett
Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett is a cautious yet determined Providence physician who becomes the central investigator confronting occult horrors in H. P. Lovecraft’s novel "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward."
E831577 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: Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett | Statement: [The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, mainCharacter, Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett
Context triple: [The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, mainCharacter, Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett]
  • A. A. H. B. Whipple
    A. H. B. Whipple was an astronomer known for his role in the discovery of the trans-Neptunian object Varuna.
  • B. Francis B. Loomis
    Francis B. Loomis was an American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and briefly as acting Secretary of State in the early 20th century.
  • C. Josiah Gorgas
    Josiah Gorgas was a Confederate general and chief of ordnance during the American Civil War, instrumental in organizing and supplying the Confederate war effort.
  • D. Dr. William Abraham Bell
    Dr. William Abraham Bell was a 19th-century English physician, photographer, and entrepreneur who became a prominent Western U.S. land developer and co-founder of Manitou Springs and Colorado Springs.
  • E. Samuel S. Montague
    Samuel S. Montague was an American civil engineer best known as the chief engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad during the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
  • 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: Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett
Triple: [The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, mainCharacter, Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett]
Generated description
Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett is a cautious yet determined Providence physician who becomes the central investigator confronting occult horrors in H. P. Lovecraft’s novel "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett
Target entity description: Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett is a cautious yet determined Providence physician who becomes the central investigator confronting occult horrors in H. P. Lovecraft’s novel "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward."
  • A. A. H. B. Whipple
    A. H. B. Whipple was an astronomer known for his role in the discovery of the trans-Neptunian object Varuna.
  • B. Francis B. Loomis
    Francis B. Loomis was an American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and briefly as acting Secretary of State in the early 20th century.
  • C. Josiah Gorgas
    Josiah Gorgas was a Confederate general and chief of ordnance during the American Civil War, instrumental in organizing and supplying the Confederate war effort.
  • D. Dr. William Abraham Bell
    Dr. William Abraham Bell was a 19th-century English physician, photographer, and entrepreneur who became a prominent Western U.S. land developer and co-founder of Manitou Springs and Colorado Springs.
  • E. Samuel S. Montague
    Samuel S. Montague was an American civil engineer best known as the chief engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad during the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
  • 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.