Triple
T9732586
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Quiet American |
E235980
|
entity |
| Predicate | narrator |
P2181
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas Fowler |
E818454
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Thomas Fowler | Statement: [The Quiet American, narrator, Thomas Fowler]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Fowler Context triple: [The Quiet American, narrator, Thomas Fowler]
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A.
Thomas Fowler
chosen
Thomas Fowler is a jaded British journalist in 1950s French-colonial Vietnam whose cynical worldview and moral ambiguity drive the political and romantic tensions at the heart of Graham Greene’s novel.
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B.
Jacob Wrey Mould
Jacob Wrey Mould was a 19th-century British-born architect and designer known for his ornate, polychromatic work on major New York City landmarks, including parts of Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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C.
Benjamin Woodward
Benjamin Woodward was a 19th-century Irish architect known for his influential Gothic Revival designs and his role in the firm Deane and Woodward.
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D.
Richard Southworth
Richard Southworth is a member of the Southworth family, known primarily as a relative of Lucinda Southworth, the wife of Google co-founder Larry Page.
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E.
William Peachey
William Peachey was a 19th-century British architect known for his work on major railway buildings, including the design of York railway station.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca84d313e88190983ee6ffd0ef60d2 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd9eb3d6e4819090b3c7fb92550c57 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 10:39 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d1bcc8d2288190b2a1dc3fe1185030 |
completed | April 5, 2026, 1:37 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:22 p.m.