Triple
T9962527
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Case of Charles Dexter Ward |
E195601
|
entity |
| Predicate | featuresCharacter |
P626
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett |
E831577
|
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: Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett | Statement: [The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, featuresCharacter, 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, featuresCharacter, Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett]
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A.
Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett
chosen
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."
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B.
A. H. B. Whipple
A. H. B. Whipple was an astronomer known for his role in the discovery of the trans-Neptunian object Varuna.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- 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_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_69d257b35aa48190991b0988ccb9cd2f |
completed | April 5, 2026, 12:38 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:47 p.m.