Triple
T11822731
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Little Dorrit |
E281178
|
entity |
| Predicate | character |
P662
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Mr. Merdle
Mr. Merdle is a wealthy and seemingly respectable financier in Charles Dickens's "Little Dorrit," whose fraudulent schemes and eventual downfall expose the corruption and moral bankruptcy of high society.
|
E948355
|
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: Mr. Merdle | Statement: [Little Dorrit, character, Mr. Merdle]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr. Merdle Context triple: [Little Dorrit, character, Mr. Merdle]
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A.
Sam Dodsworth
Sam Dodsworth is the successful yet emotionally unfulfilled American businessman at the center of Sinclair Lewis’s novel and its stage and film adaptations, whose travels in Europe trigger a profound midlife reckoning with his marriage and identity.
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B.
Cyril Proudbottom
Cyril Proudbottom is a comical, carefree horse character from Disney’s animated adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows" segment in *The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad*.
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C.
Malcolm Brodie
Malcolm Brodie is a Canadian municipal politician who has served for many years as the mayor of Richmond, British Columbia.
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D.
Jervis McEntee
Jervis McEntee was a 19th-century American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, known for his poetic, melancholic depictions of nature.
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E.
Baron Beatty
Baron Beatty is a British peerage title created for Admiral David Beatty, a prominent Royal Navy commander during World War I.
- 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: Mr. Merdle Triple: [Little Dorrit, character, Mr. Merdle]
Generated description
Mr. Merdle is a wealthy and seemingly respectable financier in Charles Dickens's "Little Dorrit," whose fraudulent schemes and eventual downfall expose the corruption and moral bankruptcy of high society.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr. Merdle Target entity description: Mr. Merdle is a wealthy and seemingly respectable financier in Charles Dickens's "Little Dorrit," whose fraudulent schemes and eventual downfall expose the corruption and moral bankruptcy of high society.
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A.
Sam Dodsworth
Sam Dodsworth is the successful yet emotionally unfulfilled American businessman at the center of Sinclair Lewis’s novel and its stage and film adaptations, whose travels in Europe trigger a profound midlife reckoning with his marriage and identity.
-
B.
Cyril Proudbottom
Cyril Proudbottom is a comical, carefree horse character from Disney’s animated adaptation of "The Wind in the Willows" segment in *The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad*.
-
C.
Malcolm Brodie
Malcolm Brodie is a Canadian municipal politician who has served for many years as the mayor of Richmond, British Columbia.
-
D.
Jervis McEntee
Jervis McEntee was a 19th-century American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, known for his poetic, melancholic depictions of nature.
-
E.
Baron Beatty
Baron Beatty is a British peerage title created for Admiral David Beatty, a prominent Royal Navy commander during World War I.
- 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_69d6ab276f8c8190b1966a0ef11349ac |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d8a5e9c50481909b2287a0b23d2094 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 7:25 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f131f4e2ec8190a78c101e17eaa5c0 |
completed | April 28, 2026, 10:17 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f14e8a1b788190a1704d6e102342e3 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 12:19 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f15715a1588190ba0ec21647adc57c |
completed | April 29, 2026, 12:55 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:42 p.m.