Triple

T18488453
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fifth Business E451751 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Percy Boyd Staunton
Percy Boyd Staunton is a wealthy, ambitious, and morally conflicted Canadian businessman whose actions and inner turmoil play a central role in Robertson Davies’ novel "Fifth Business."
E1328077 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: Percy Boyd Staunton | Statement: [Fifth Business, mainCharacter, Percy Boyd Staunton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Percy Boyd Staunton
Context triple: [Fifth Business, mainCharacter, Percy Boyd Staunton]
  • A. Effingham Wilson
    Effingham Wilson was a prominent 19th-century London publisher known for issuing works of literature, radical politics, and social reform.
  • B. Eaton L. Dickey
    Eaton L. Dickey was an American diplomat who served as a U.S. ambassador, notably representing the United States in Panama.
  • C. Asa Tift
    Asa Tift was a 19th-century Key West salvager and businessman whose former residence later became the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum.
  • D. Jesse E. Moorland
    Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
  • E. William Burnham Woods
    William Burnham Woods was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court in the late 19th century, known for his service during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras.
  • 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: Percy Boyd Staunton
Triple: [Fifth Business, mainCharacter, Percy Boyd Staunton]
Generated description
Percy Boyd Staunton is a wealthy, ambitious, and morally conflicted Canadian businessman whose actions and inner turmoil play a central role in Robertson Davies’ novel "Fifth Business."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Percy Boyd Staunton
Target entity description: Percy Boyd Staunton is a wealthy, ambitious, and morally conflicted Canadian businessman whose actions and inner turmoil play a central role in Robertson Davies’ novel "Fifth Business."
  • A. Effingham Wilson
    Effingham Wilson was a prominent 19th-century London publisher known for issuing works of literature, radical politics, and social reform.
  • B. Eaton L. Dickey
    Eaton L. Dickey was an American diplomat who served as a U.S. ambassador, notably representing the United States in Panama.
  • C. Asa Tift
    Asa Tift was a 19th-century Key West salvager and businessman whose former residence later became the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum.
  • D. Jesse E. Moorland
    Jesse E. Moorland was an African American minister, educator, and philanthropist whose extensive collection of books and documents on Black history helped form the foundation of Howard University’s Moorland–Spingarn Research Center.
  • E. William Burnham Woods
    William Burnham Woods was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court in the late 19th century, known for his service during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras.
  • 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_69d8d3855d50819097fc8561b0299dd9 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e531d8bac4819099306abbf78b9565 completed April 19, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a04713836f88190a331f7ad6a577d32 completed May 13, 2026, 12:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0472343abc819080eb1596cf53f220 completed May 13, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a04739589d48190a6da4d5f63b7272c completed May 13, 2026, 12:50 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:35 a.m.