Triple

T15624975
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Last Station E375655 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Valentin Bulgakov
Valentin Bulgakov was the devoted personal secretary of Leo Tolstoy, known for his role in the writer’s final years and as a character in the film "The Last Station."
E1169270 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: Valentin Bulgakov | Statement: [The Last Station, character, Valentin Bulgakov]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Valentin Bulgakov
Context triple: [The Last Station, character, Valentin Bulgakov]
  • A. Mikhail Bulgakov
    Mikhail Bulgakov was a Russian writer and playwright best known for his satirical and fantastical novel "The Master and Margarita."
  • B. Mikhail Bulgakov-Golitsa
    Mikhail Bulgakov-Golitsa was a 16th-century Russian military leader and nobleman of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, noted for his role in major conflicts with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poland.
  • C. Fyodor Volkov
    Fyodor Volkov was an 18th-century Russian actor and theatrical pioneer, widely regarded as the founder of the first permanent public Russian theatre.
  • D. Platon Volkov
    Platon Volkov was the husband of Zinaida Volkova, the daughter of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky.
  • E. Venedikt Erofeev
    Venedikt Erofeev was a Russian writer and satirist best known for his cult prose poem "Moscow-Petushki," a darkly comic, philosophical account of a drunken train journey.
  • 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: Valentin Bulgakov
Triple: [The Last Station, character, Valentin Bulgakov]
Generated description
Valentin Bulgakov was the devoted personal secretary of Leo Tolstoy, known for his role in the writer’s final years and as a character in the film "The Last Station."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Valentin Bulgakov
Target entity description: Valentin Bulgakov was the devoted personal secretary of Leo Tolstoy, known for his role in the writer’s final years and as a character in the film "The Last Station."
  • A. Mikhail Bulgakov
    Mikhail Bulgakov was a Russian writer and playwright best known for his satirical and fantastical novel "The Master and Margarita."
  • B. Mikhail Bulgakov-Golitsa
    Mikhail Bulgakov-Golitsa was a 16th-century Russian military leader and nobleman of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, noted for his role in major conflicts with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poland.
  • C. Fyodor Volkov
    Fyodor Volkov was an 18th-century Russian actor and theatrical pioneer, widely regarded as the founder of the first permanent public Russian theatre.
  • D. Platon Volkov
    Platon Volkov was the husband of Zinaida Volkova, the daughter of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky.
  • E. Venedikt Erofeev
    Venedikt Erofeev was a Russian writer and satirist best known for his cult prose poem "Moscow-Petushki," a darkly comic, philosophical account of a drunken train journey.
  • 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_69d85cd035a48190b73d5579ab73969a completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04e9e5e248190ae54cda1fde51efb completed April 16, 2026, 2:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff678c9d8c8190be73b6e7ed558e99 completed May 9, 2026, 4:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff6883b5048190b64e4361bc89dd80 completed May 9, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff6911a76c819088c8a86d2106b6c6 completed May 9, 2026, 5:04 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:14 a.m.