Triple

T21571927
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The History of Henry Esmond E532304 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Henry Esmond
Henry Esmond is the fictional 18th-century English gentleman and soldier who serves as the reflective, morally complex narrator of William Makepeace Thackeray’s historical novel "The History of Henry Esmond."
E1491867 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: Henry Esmond | Statement: [The History of Henry Esmond, mainCharacter, Henry Esmond]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry Esmond
Context triple: [The History of Henry Esmond, mainCharacter, Henry Esmond]
  • A. Henry V. Esmond
    Henry V. Esmond was a British stage and film actor and playwright active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Gervais
    Gervais is the surname of British comedian, actor, writer, and director Ricky Gervais, best known for co-creating and starring in the original UK version of "The Office."
  • C. Edmond Maître
    Edmond Maître was a 19th-century French civil servant, art enthusiast, and supporter of Impressionist painters, known especially for his close association with artists like Henri Fantin-Latour and Claude Monet.
  • D. Eustace Grenier
    Eustace Grenier was a prominent 12th-century Crusader noble and military leader who served as constable of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and played a key role in its governance and defense.
  • E. Bertram Risingham
    Bertram Risingham is a character in Walter Scott’s narrative poem "Rokeby," notable for his role in the work’s complex tale of loyalty, intrigue, and conflict during the English Civil War.
  • 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: Henry Esmond
Triple: [The History of Henry Esmond, mainCharacter, Henry Esmond]
Generated description
Henry Esmond is the fictional 18th-century English gentleman and soldier who serves as the reflective, morally complex narrator of William Makepeace Thackeray’s historical novel "The History of Henry Esmond."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry Esmond
Target entity description: Henry Esmond is the fictional 18th-century English gentleman and soldier who serves as the reflective, morally complex narrator of William Makepeace Thackeray’s historical novel "The History of Henry Esmond."
  • A. Henry V. Esmond
    Henry V. Esmond was a British stage and film actor and playwright active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Gervais
    Gervais is the surname of British comedian, actor, writer, and director Ricky Gervais, best known for co-creating and starring in the original UK version of "The Office."
  • C. Edmond Maître
    Edmond Maître was a 19th-century French civil servant, art enthusiast, and supporter of Impressionist painters, known especially for his close association with artists like Henri Fantin-Latour and Claude Monet.
  • D. Eustace Grenier
    Eustace Grenier was a prominent 12th-century Crusader noble and military leader who served as constable of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and played a key role in its governance and defense.
  • E. Bertram Risingham
    Bertram Risingham is a character in Walter Scott’s narrative poem "Rokeby," notable for his role in the work’s complex tale of loyalty, intrigue, and conflict during the English Civil War.
  • 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_69e0c460db088190828c64206a450273 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69eee9cd50188190b44eb25fb87312bb completed April 27, 2026, 4:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09f672b5808190a2dd61c26ce64403 completed May 17, 2026, 5:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09f78a3d788190b4b19f3b6463550e completed May 17, 2026, 5:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09f825b02c819096f57b1dba02ded2 completed May 17, 2026, 5:17 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:30 p.m.