Triple

T19754973
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cryptonomicon E474478 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Enoch Root
Enoch Root is a mysterious, seemingly ageless priest and operative who appears across Neal Stephenson’s novels as a key figure guiding events from the shadows.
E1394764 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: Enoch Root | Statement: [Cryptonomicon, mainCharacter, Enoch Root]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Enoch Root
Context triple: [Cryptonomicon, mainCharacter, Enoch Root]
  • A. Eleazer Root
    Eleazer Root was an American educator and politician who played a foundational role in organizing Wisconsin’s public school system in the mid-19th century.
  • B. Jack Lothrop
    Jack Lothrop is a music producer known for his work on Doc Watson’s self-titled debut album.
  • C. Enoch Emery
    Enoch Emery is a naive, impulsive young man in Flannery O’Connor’s novel "Wise Blood," whose obsessive search for meaning leads him into bizarre and often grotesque behavior.
  • D. Enoch Snow
    Enoch Snow is a central character in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel," portrayed as an ambitious fisherman with strong moral values and comic earnestness.
  • E. Eugene Sawyer
    Eugene Sawyer was an American politician who briefly served as mayor of Chicago in the late 1980s following the death of Harold Washington.
  • 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: Enoch Root
Triple: [Cryptonomicon, mainCharacter, Enoch Root]
Generated description
Enoch Root is a mysterious, seemingly ageless priest and operative who appears across Neal Stephenson’s novels as a key figure guiding events from the shadows.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Enoch Root
Target entity description: Enoch Root is a mysterious, seemingly ageless priest and operative who appears across Neal Stephenson’s novels as a key figure guiding events from the shadows.
  • A. Eleazer Root
    Eleazer Root was an American educator and politician who played a foundational role in organizing Wisconsin’s public school system in the mid-19th century.
  • B. Jack Lothrop
    Jack Lothrop is a music producer known for his work on Doc Watson’s self-titled debut album.
  • C. Enoch Emery
    Enoch Emery is a naive, impulsive young man in Flannery O’Connor’s novel "Wise Blood," whose obsessive search for meaning leads him into bizarre and often grotesque behavior.
  • D. Enoch Snow
    Enoch Snow is a central character in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel," portrayed as an ambitious fisherman with strong moral values and comic earnestness.
  • E. Eugene Sawyer
    Eugene Sawyer was an American politician who briefly served as mayor of Chicago in the late 1980s following the death of Harold Washington.
  • 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_69d8e51940a0819087bd2996f98da668 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6529dada081909c5b4d65247c6032 completed April 20, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07bd67064081908839a408b0e746e1 completed May 16, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07bde28e848190aaa9c4a06b31bdb6 completed May 16, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07bed4c8d8819094fafce7eee69ee7 completed May 16, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:48 p.m.