Triple

T20035016
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rain E497232 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Mrs. Macphail
Mrs. Macphail is a character in W. Somerset Maugham’s short story "Rain," depicted as a conventional, middle-class woman whose perceptions help frame the moral and social tensions of the narrative.
E1406695 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: Mrs. Macphail | Statement: [Rain, featuresCharacter, Mrs. Macphail]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mrs. Macphail
Context triple: [Rain, featuresCharacter, Mrs. Macphail]
  • A. Mrs. Maclehose
    Mrs. Maclehose is the married name of Agnes Maclehose, an 18th-century Scottish woman best known as the platonic love interest and correspondent of poet Robert Burns, who addressed her as "Clarinda" in his famous letters.
  • B. Mary MacLaren
    Mary MacLaren was an American silent film actress known for her expressive performances in early 20th-century cinema.
  • C. Mrs. Dempster
    Mrs. Dempster is a central fictional figure in George Eliot’s novella "Janet’s Repentance," notable for her role in the story’s exploration of morality, religion, and social judgment in a provincial English town.
  • D. Margaret MacLachlan
    Margaret MacLachlan was a Scottish Covenanter martyr executed in the 17th century for her Presbyterian faith during the period of persecution known as the Killing Times.
  • E. Margaret McGregor
    Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
  • 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: Mrs. Macphail
Triple: [Rain, featuresCharacter, Mrs. Macphail]
Generated description
Mrs. Macphail is a character in W. Somerset Maugham’s short story "Rain," depicted as a conventional, middle-class woman whose perceptions help frame the moral and social tensions of the narrative.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mrs. Macphail
Target entity description: Mrs. Macphail is a character in W. Somerset Maugham’s short story "Rain," depicted as a conventional, middle-class woman whose perceptions help frame the moral and social tensions of the narrative.
  • A. Mrs. Maclehose
    Mrs. Maclehose is the married name of Agnes Maclehose, an 18th-century Scottish woman best known as the platonic love interest and correspondent of poet Robert Burns, who addressed her as "Clarinda" in his famous letters.
  • B. Mary MacLaren
    Mary MacLaren was an American silent film actress known for her expressive performances in early 20th-century cinema.
  • C. Mrs. Dempster
    Mrs. Dempster is a central fictional figure in George Eliot’s novella "Janet’s Repentance," notable for her role in the story’s exploration of morality, religion, and social judgment in a provincial English town.
  • D. Margaret MacLachlan
    Margaret MacLachlan was a Scottish Covenanter martyr executed in the 17th century for her Presbyterian faith during the period of persecution known as the Killing Times.
  • E. Margaret McGregor
    Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
  • 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_69da627278c88190babe4297a9df1236 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e662e76f8481909c006921cbbfd060 completed April 20, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a080e376d888190ae9ba908dac771b4 completed May 16, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a080ee7dfe081909bf288e7b8944a75 completed May 16, 2026, 6:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a080f517f1c81909c66b9a542fddd6b completed May 16, 2026, 6:31 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 3:36 p.m.