Triple

T18902390
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Temeraire series E462367 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object William Laurence
William Laurence is a principled British naval captain turned dragon aviator who serves as the central human protagonist in Naomi Novik’s Temeraire fantasy series.
E1348199 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: William Laurence | Statement: [Temeraire series, mainCharacter, William Laurence]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Laurence
Context triple: [Temeraire series, mainCharacter, William Laurence]
  • A. Lester Alvin Burnett
    Lester Alvin Burnett, better known as Smiley Burnette, was an American country music performer, songwriter, and comic actor famed for his sidekick roles in Western films and early television.
  • B. Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
    Robert Joseph Pershing Foster was an African American physician whose migration from the Jim Crow South to California is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s book *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
  • C. William Everett Preston
    William Everett Preston was an American musician, singer, and songwriter renowned for his virtuoso keyboard work and collaborations with artists such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
  • D. William Christopher
    William Christopher was an American actor best known for playing the gentle and compassionate Father Mulcahy on the television series M*A*S*H.
  • E. Albert Nelson
    Albert Nelson, better known as Albert King, was an influential American blues guitarist and singer renowned for his powerful string-bending style and impact on electric blues and rock music.
  • 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: William Laurence
Triple: [Temeraire series, mainCharacter, William Laurence]
Generated description
William Laurence is a principled British naval captain turned dragon aviator who serves as the central human protagonist in Naomi Novik’s Temeraire fantasy series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Laurence
Target entity description: William Laurence is a principled British naval captain turned dragon aviator who serves as the central human protagonist in Naomi Novik’s Temeraire fantasy series.
  • A. Lester Alvin Burnett
    Lester Alvin Burnett, better known as Smiley Burnette, was an American country music performer, songwriter, and comic actor famed for his sidekick roles in Western films and early television.
  • B. Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
    Robert Joseph Pershing Foster was an African American physician whose migration from the Jim Crow South to California is one of the key personal narratives chronicled in Isabel Wilkerson’s book *The Warmth of Other Suns*.
  • C. William Everett Preston
    William Everett Preston was an American musician, singer, and songwriter renowned for his virtuoso keyboard work and collaborations with artists such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
  • D. William Christopher
    William Christopher was an American actor best known for playing the gentle and compassionate Father Mulcahy on the television series M*A*S*H.
  • E. Albert Nelson
    Albert Nelson, better known as Albert King, was an influential American blues guitarist and singer renowned for his powerful string-bending style and impact on electric blues and rock music.
  • 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_69d8dcfd05bc819088903cca13cc2846 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5c52a4b4c8190b5821996e3c1741d completed April 20, 2026, 6:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0582bc878c8190bfb5f058aa272225 completed May 14, 2026, 8:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05871baa5881908c3c0f407b2d82c0 completed May 14, 2026, 8:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0587acbf1c819088bae20aa89783eb completed May 14, 2026, 8:28 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:58 a.m.