Triple

T21571984
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Newcomes E532305 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Ethel Newcome
Ethel Newcome is a central fictional character in William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel "The Newcomes," representing the moral and emotional core of the story’s exploration of Victorian society and family life.
E1491876 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: Ethel Newcome | Statement: [The Newcomes, mainCharacter, Ethel Newcome]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ethel Newcome
Context triple: [The Newcomes, mainCharacter, Ethel Newcome]
  • A. Ethel Darling
    Ethel Darling is a bearded lady and maternal figure in the television series "American Horror Story: Freak Show," known for her tragic past and complex relationship with her son, Jimmy.
  • B. Ethel Barton
    Ethel Barton is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the Barton surname, though specific widely known achievements or biographical details are not well documented.
  • C. Marian Halcombe
    Marian Halcombe is a sharp-witted, courageous, and resourceful heroine in Wilkie Collins’s Victorian sensation novel "The Woman in White."
  • D. Ambrosine Phillpotts
    Ambrosine Phillpotts was a British character actress known for her numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film, theatre, and television.
  • E. Madeline Stanhope
    Madeline Stanhope is a fictional character from Anthony Trollope’s novel "Barchester Towers," known for her beauty, manipulative charm, and scandalous reputation under her married name, Madeline Neroni.
  • 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: Ethel Newcome
Triple: [The Newcomes, mainCharacter, Ethel Newcome]
Generated description
Ethel Newcome is a central fictional character in William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel "The Newcomes," representing the moral and emotional core of the story’s exploration of Victorian society and family life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ethel Newcome
Target entity description: Ethel Newcome is a central fictional character in William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel "The Newcomes," representing the moral and emotional core of the story’s exploration of Victorian society and family life.
  • A. Ethel Darling
    Ethel Darling is a bearded lady and maternal figure in the television series "American Horror Story: Freak Show," known for her tragic past and complex relationship with her son, Jimmy.
  • B. Ethel Barton
    Ethel Barton is a person notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the Barton surname, though specific widely known achievements or biographical details are not well documented.
  • C. Marian Halcombe
    Marian Halcombe is a sharp-witted, courageous, and resourceful heroine in Wilkie Collins’s Victorian sensation novel "The Woman in White."
  • D. Ambrosine Phillpotts
    Ambrosine Phillpotts was a British character actress known for her numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film, theatre, and television.
  • E. Madeline Stanhope
    Madeline Stanhope is a fictional character from Anthony Trollope’s novel "Barchester Towers," known for her beauty, manipulative charm, and scandalous reputation under her married name, Madeline Neroni.
  • 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.