Triple

T23111298
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject To Say Nothing of the Dog E576326 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Ned Henry
Ned Henry is a time-traveling historian protagonist in Connie Willis’s comic science fiction novel "To Say Nothing of the Dog," known for his misadventures through Victorian England and beyond.
 E1571384 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: Ned Henry | Statement: [To Say Nothing of the Dog, mainCharacter, Ned Henry]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ned Henry
Context triple: [To Say Nothing of the Dog, mainCharacter, Ned Henry]
  • A. Ned
    Ned is a common English diminutive form of the given name Edward.
  • B. Ned
    Ned is the pie-making protagonist of the whimsical TV series "Pushing Daisies," gifted with the power to temporarily bring the dead back to life with a single touch.
  • C. Ned
    Ned is a central character in Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Book of Skulls," one of four college students who seek an ancient order promising immortality at a terrible cost.
  • D. Ned
    Ned is the reflective former spy whose training-school recollections frame and narrate John le Carré’s novel *The Secret Pilgrim*.
  • E. Ned
    Ned is a fictional character from the Christian drama film "Love Takes Wing," part of the Love Comes Softly series.
  • 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: Ned Henry
Triple: [To Say Nothing of the Dog, mainCharacter, Ned Henry]
Generated description
Ned Henry is a time-traveling historian protagonist in Connie Willis’s comic science fiction novel "To Say Nothing of the Dog," known for his misadventures through Victorian England and beyond.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ned Henry
Target entity description: Ned Henry is a time-traveling historian protagonist in Connie Willis’s comic science fiction novel "To Say Nothing of the Dog," known for his misadventures through Victorian England and beyond.
  • A. Ned
    Ned is a common English diminutive form of the given name Edward.
  • B. Ned
    Ned is the reflective former spy whose training-school recollections frame and narrate John le Carré’s novel *The Secret Pilgrim*.
  • C. Ned
    Ned is the pie-making protagonist of the whimsical TV series "Pushing Daisies," gifted with the power to temporarily bring the dead back to life with a single touch.
  • D. Ned
    Ned is a central character in Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Book of Skulls," one of four college students who seek an ancient order promising immortality at a terrible cost.
  • E. Ned
    Ned is a fictional character from the Christian drama film "Love Takes Wing," part of the Love Comes Softly series.
  • 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_69e245f4af548190898d434a64a1e774 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18e0f4d188190a9395074c630ab0d completed April 29, 2026, 4:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c23ea3e908190baf83cd72e23bbb7 completed May 19, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c28ed782c8190a60cf2212a1e7861 completed May 19, 2026, 9:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c29bca4c08190a29d4204c75b333f completed May 19, 2026, 9:13 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:58 p.m.