Triple

T9358958
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent E225225 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Roderick Elliston
Roderick Elliston is the tormented protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tale “Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent,” whose life is consumed by a metaphorical serpent representing his destructive self-absorption.
 E794674 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: Roderick Elliston | Statement: [Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent, mainCharacter, Roderick Elliston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Roderick Elliston
Context triple: [Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent, mainCharacter, Roderick Elliston]
  • A. Roderick Spencer
    Roderick Spencer is an American writer and producer known for his work in film and television and for being married to actress Alfre Woodard.
  • B. Roderick Kinney
    Roderick Kinney is an individual notable enough to be specifically identified as a bearer of the Kinney surname.
  • C. Roderick Jackson
    Roderick Jackson is a high school girls’ basketball coach whose sex discrimination complaint led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education, which expanded protections against retaliation under Title IX.
  • D. Roderick
    Roderick is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, historically associated with leaders and nobility and used in various forms across European languages.
  • E. Roderick
    Roderick is the power-hungry nobleman and primary human villain in the fantasy adventure film "Jack the Giant Slayer."
  • 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: Roderick Elliston
Triple: [Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent, mainCharacter, Roderick Elliston]
Generated description
Roderick Elliston is the tormented protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tale “Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent,” whose life is consumed by a metaphorical serpent representing his destructive self-absorption.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Roderick Elliston
Target entity description: Roderick Elliston is the tormented protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s tale “Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent,” whose life is consumed by a metaphorical serpent representing his destructive self-absorption.
  • A. Roderick Spencer
    Roderick Spencer is an American writer and producer known for his work in film and television and for being married to actress Alfre Woodard.
  • B. Roderick Kinney
    Roderick Kinney is an individual notable enough to be specifically identified as a bearer of the Kinney surname.
  • C. Roderick Jackson
    Roderick Jackson is a high school girls’ basketball coach whose sex discrimination complaint led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education, which expanded protections against retaliation under Title IX.
  • D. Roderick
    Roderick is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, historically associated with leaders and nobility and used in various forms across European languages.
  • E. Roderick
    Roderick is the full given name of Rod Langway, a Hall of Fame former professional ice hockey defenseman best known for his time with the Washington Capitals.
  • 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_69ca842bdd648190904131d58620d448 completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd4ff19ab48190a8d85c8ac2644c89 completed April 1, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0f3da85d48190966682b0f1965a53 completed April 4, 2026, 11:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0f619e91081909c2ec17e89376295 completed April 4, 2026, 11:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0f6ce1a0c8190aca34958935e0e59 completed April 4, 2026, 11:32 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:42 p.m.