Triple

T18968291
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Winter of Our Discontent E464098 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Ellen Hawley
Ellen Hawley is a character in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Winter of Our Discontent," serving as a member of the Hawley family around whom the story’s moral and social conflicts revolve.
E1407778 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: Ellen Hawley | Statement: [The Winter of Our Discontent, character, Ellen Hawley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellen Hawley
Context triple: [The Winter of Our Discontent, character, Ellen Hawley]
  • A. Ellen Morris
    Ellen Morris is a character in the coming-of-age film "My Dog Skip," appearing as part of the story surrounding the young protagonist and his beloved dog in 1940s Mississippi.
  • B. Ellen Lacey
    Ellen Lacey is a fictional character from the 1954 film noir "Crime Wave," involved in the story’s tense criminal underworld and police investigation.
  • C. Ellen Andrews
    Ellen Andrews is the mother who magically swaps bodies with her teenage daughter in the 1976 fantasy-comedy film "Freaky Friday."
  • D. Ellen Howard
    Ellen Howard is a notable individual distinguished by achievements significant enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Howard surname.
  • E. Ellen Mason
    Ellen Mason was a daughter of Biddy Mason, the formerly enslaved African American woman who became a prominent nurse, landowner, and philanthropist in Los Angeles.
  • 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: Ellen Hawley
Triple: [The Winter of Our Discontent, character, Ellen Hawley]
Generated description
Ellen Hawley is a character in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Winter of Our Discontent," serving as a member of the Hawley family around whom the story’s moral and social conflicts revolve.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellen Hawley
Target entity description: Ellen Hawley is a character in John Steinbeck’s novel "The Winter of Our Discontent," serving as a member of the Hawley family around whom the story’s moral and social conflicts revolve.
  • A. Ellen Morris
    Ellen Morris is a character in the coming-of-age film "My Dog Skip," appearing as part of the story surrounding the young protagonist and his beloved dog in 1940s Mississippi.
  • B. Ellen Lacey
    Ellen Lacey is a fictional character from the 1954 film noir "Crime Wave," involved in the story’s tense criminal underworld and police investigation.
  • C. Ellen Andrews
    Ellen Andrews is the mother who magically swaps bodies with her teenage daughter in the 1976 fantasy-comedy film "Freaky Friday."
  • D. Ellen Howard
    Ellen Howard is a notable individual distinguished by achievements significant enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Howard surname.
  • E. Ellen Mason
    Ellen Mason was a daughter of Biddy Mason, the formerly enslaved African American woman who became a prominent nurse, landowner, and philanthropist in Los Angeles.
  • 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_69d8dcffc278819086792a4ebfddfafa completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5d6172888819090a8b3cb1db20496 completed April 20, 2026, 7:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a080e09a8f4819085bd5130d5e2a28d completed May 16, 2026, 6:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0810b0e78c8190ac880442b3e58994 completed May 16, 2026, 6:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a081110a048819097c0c5d6b0274b18 completed May 16, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, noon