Triple

T20384861
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog E497932 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Mr. Traill
Mr. Traill is a kindly Edinburgh innkeeper who befriends and cares for the loyal Skye terrier Bobby in the story "Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog."
E1428649 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: Mr. Traill | Statement: [Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog, mainCharacter, Mr. Traill]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr. Traill
Context triple: [Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog, mainCharacter, Mr. Traill]
  • A. Mr. Tudball
    Mr. Tudball is a comedic character from "The Carol Burnett Show," known as the frustrated, accent-heavy boss of the dim-witted secretary Mrs. Wiggins.
  • B. Sam Dodsworth
    Sam Dodsworth is the successful yet emotionally unfulfilled American businessman at the center of Sinclair Lewis’s novel and its stage and film adaptations, whose travels in Europe trigger a profound midlife reckoning with his marriage and identity.
  • C. Harold Tennant
    Harold Tennant was a British Liberal politician and government minister in the early 20th century, associated with the administration of H. H. Asquith.
  • D. Mr. Brittain
    Mr. Brittain is the stern, emotionally reserved father of Vera Brittain in "Testament of Youth," representing traditional Edwardian middle-class values and expectations.
  • E. Mr. Crewe
    Mr. Crewe is a minor character in George Eliot’s novella "Janet’s Repentance," notable for his role within the social and moral landscape of the story’s provincial English setting.
  • 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: Mr. Traill
Triple: [Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog, mainCharacter, Mr. Traill]
Generated description
Mr. Traill is a kindly Edinburgh innkeeper who befriends and cares for the loyal Skye terrier Bobby in the story "Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mr. Traill
Target entity description: Mr. Traill is a kindly Edinburgh innkeeper who befriends and cares for the loyal Skye terrier Bobby in the story "Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog."
  • A. Mr. Tudball
    Mr. Tudball is a comedic character from "The Carol Burnett Show," known as the frustrated, accent-heavy boss of the dim-witted secretary Mrs. Wiggins.
  • B. Sam Dodsworth
    Sam Dodsworth is the successful yet emotionally unfulfilled American businessman at the center of Sinclair Lewis’s novel and its stage and film adaptations, whose travels in Europe trigger a profound midlife reckoning with his marriage and identity.
  • C. Harold Tennant
    Harold Tennant was a British Liberal politician and government minister in the early 20th century, associated with the administration of H. H. Asquith.
  • D. Mr. Brittain
    Mr. Brittain is the stern, emotionally reserved father of Vera Brittain in "Testament of Youth," representing traditional Edwardian middle-class values and expectations.
  • E. Mr. Crewe
    Mr. Crewe is a minor character in George Eliot’s novella "Janet’s Repentance," notable for his role within the social and moral landscape of the story’s provincial English setting.
  • 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_69e0b4a71ebc8190b153a36c738730f4 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6790a31a4819099b2e6df2bafe547 completed April 20, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0876199fc0819094b5189848659803 completed May 16, 2026, 1:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a087754af1481909a8ffa042aad2f42 completed May 16, 2026, 1:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0877dcf9548190bd42db7a54aea824 completed May 16, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:28 a.m.