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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.