Triple

T20285584
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Coral Island E509866 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object R. M. Ballantyne
R. M. Ballantyne was a 19th-century Scottish author best known for his adventure novels for young readers, particularly set in exotic and colonial locales.
E1421966 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: R. M. Ballantyne | Statement: [The Coral Island, author, R. M. Ballantyne]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. M. Ballantyne
Context triple: [The Coral Island, author, R. M. Ballantyne]
  • A. Thomas Mayne Reid
    Thomas Mayne Reid was a 19th-century Irish-American novelist best known for his adventure and boys’ books set in the American West and other exotic locales.
  • B. Marcus Clarke
    Marcus Clarke was a 19th-century Australian novelist and journalist best known for his classic convict-era novel "For the Term of His Natural Life."
  • C. Charles Nordhoff
    Charles Nordhoff was an American writer best known for co-authoring popular adventure novels set in the South Pacific, including the classic Bounty trilogy.
  • D. J. A. Somerby
    J. A. Somerby was an American settler and town founder credited with establishing the city of Richland Center in Wisconsin.
  • E. James Norman Hall
    James Norman Hall was an American author and World War I veteran best known for co-writing the classic historical novel "Mutiny on the Bounty" and its sequels.
  • 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: R. M. Ballantyne
Triple: [The Coral Island, author, R. M. Ballantyne]
Generated description
R. M. Ballantyne was a 19th-century Scottish author best known for his adventure novels for young readers, particularly set in exotic and colonial locales.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. M. Ballantyne
Target entity description: R. M. Ballantyne was a 19th-century Scottish author best known for his adventure novels for young readers, particularly set in exotic and colonial locales.
  • A. Thomas Mayne Reid
    Thomas Mayne Reid was a 19th-century Irish-American novelist best known for his adventure and boys’ books set in the American West and other exotic locales.
  • B. Marcus Clarke
    Marcus Clarke was a 19th-century Australian novelist and journalist best known for his classic convict-era novel "For the Term of His Natural Life."
  • C. Charles Nordhoff
    Charles Nordhoff was an American writer best known for co-authoring popular adventure novels set in the South Pacific, including the classic Bounty trilogy.
  • D. J. A. Somerby
    J. A. Somerby was an American settler and town founder credited with establishing the city of Richland Center in Wisconsin.
  • E. James Norman Hall
    James Norman Hall was an American author and World War I veteran best known for co-writing the classic historical novel "Mutiny on the Bounty" and its sequels.
  • 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_69e0b4c652388190b782cad965e5a098 completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e676924f48819095f6224c8d9bb257 completed April 20, 2026, 6:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a085a29ed8c81909aa24d25b102eb0a completed May 16, 2026, 11:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a085ab05b708190b69aaeb43aca664e completed May 16, 2026, 11:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a085b505a0481909e3f54868b732fc8 completed May 16, 2026, 11:56 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:06 a.m.