Triple

T11822785
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Pickwick Papers E281179 entity
Predicate illustrator P9707 FINISHED
Object Robert William Buss
Robert William Buss was a 19th-century English artist and illustrator best known for his unfinished illustration work for Charles Dickens's "The Pickwick Papers."
E948360 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: Robert William Buss | Statement: [The Pickwick Papers, illustrator, Robert William Buss]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert William Buss
Context triple: [The Pickwick Papers, illustrator, Robert William Buss]
  • A. Richard Bristow
    Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
  • B. William Rimmer
    William Rimmer was a 19th-century British-born American artist, sculptor, and influential art teacher known for his anatomically precise and imaginative figure studies.
  • C. John Renshaw
    John Renshaw is a professional hitman who becomes the target of a deadly, miniature-scale revenge attack in the "Battleground" episode of the Nightmares & Dreamscapes TV series.
  • D. Louis Hobson
    Louis Hobson is an American musical theatre actor best known for his work on Broadway, including originating a role in the acclaimed rock musical "Next to Normal."
  • E. Charles Buxton
    Charles Buxton was a 19th-century English brewer, philanthropist, and Liberal politician known for his social reform efforts and public service.
  • 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: Robert William Buss
Triple: [The Pickwick Papers, illustrator, Robert William Buss]
Generated description
Robert William Buss was a 19th-century English artist and illustrator best known for his unfinished illustration work for Charles Dickens's "The Pickwick Papers."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert William Buss
Target entity description: Robert William Buss was a 19th-century English artist and illustrator best known for his unfinished illustration work for Charles Dickens's "The Pickwick Papers."
  • A. Richard Bristow
    Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
  • B. William Rimmer
    William Rimmer was a 19th-century British-born American artist, sculptor, and influential art teacher known for his anatomically precise and imaginative figure studies.
  • C. John Renshaw
    John Renshaw is a professional hitman who becomes the target of a deadly, miniature-scale revenge attack in the "Battleground" episode of the Nightmares & Dreamscapes TV series.
  • D. Louis Hobson
    Louis Hobson is an American musical theatre actor best known for his work on Broadway, including originating a role in the acclaimed rock musical "Next to Normal."
  • E. Charles Buxton
    Charles Buxton was a 19th-century English brewer, philanthropist, and Liberal politician known for his social reform efforts and public service.
  • 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.