Triple

T16780306
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Naturalism (literature) E407839 entity
Predicate hasKeyWork P6200 FINISHED
Object Germinal
Germinal is a landmark naturalist novel by Émile Zola that powerfully depicts the harsh lives and class struggle of coal miners in 19th-century France.
E1126095 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: Germinal | Statement: [Naturalism (literature), hasKeyWork, Germinal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Germinal
Context triple: [Naturalism (literature), hasKeyWork, Germinal]
  • A. Germinal
    Germinal is a 1993 French film adaptation of Émile Zola’s novel about a coal miners’ strike in 19th-century France, directed by Claude Berri.
  • B. Germinal
    Germinal is the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar, corresponding roughly to late March and early April and associated with the sprouting of plants in spring.
  • C. Les Déracinés
    Les Déracinés is a 1897 nationalist novel by Maurice Barrès that follows a group of young men from Lorraine whose move to Paris leads to moral and spiritual uprooting, inaugurating his influential trilogy Le Roman de l’énergie nationale.
  • D. Récoltes et Semailles
    Récoltes et Semailles is an extensive, reflective manuscript by mathematician Alexander Grothendieck that blends autobiographical narrative with a critical examination of his own work and the culture of modern mathematics.
  • E. Les Rougon-Macquart
    Les Rougon-Macquart is a twenty-novel cycle by Émile Zola that traces the lives of a fictional French family to explore heredity, environment, and society during the Second French Empire.
  • 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: Germinal
Triple: [Naturalism (literature), hasKeyWork, Germinal]
Generated description
Germinal is a landmark naturalist novel by Émile Zola that powerfully depicts the harsh lives and class struggle of coal miners in 19th-century France.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Germinal
Target entity description: Germinal is a landmark naturalist novel by Émile Zola that powerfully depicts the harsh lives and class struggle of coal miners in 19th-century France.
  • A. Germinal
    Germinal is the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar, corresponding roughly to late March and early April and associated with the sprouting of plants in spring.
  • B. Germinal chosen
    Germinal is a 1993 French film adaptation of Émile Zola’s novel about a coal miners’ strike in 19th-century France, directed by Claude Berri.
  • C. Les Déracinés
    Les Déracinés is a 1897 nationalist novel by Maurice Barrès that follows a group of young men from Lorraine whose move to Paris leads to moral and spiritual uprooting, inaugurating his influential trilogy Le Roman de l’énergie nationale.
  • D. Récoltes et Semailles
    Récoltes et Semailles is an extensive, reflective manuscript by mathematician Alexander Grothendieck that blends autobiographical narrative with a critical examination of his own work and the culture of modern mathematics.
  • E. Les Rougon-Macquart
    Les Rougon-Macquart is a twenty-novel cycle by Émile Zola that traces the lives of a fictional French family to explore heredity, environment, and society during the Second French Empire.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d8839270588190886720d9519bbf8f completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3b214cebc81909de80e74b4bac5f8 completed April 18, 2026, 4:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00ab0300e48190ad088cd11098ca34 completed May 10, 2026, 3:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00aba5fb388190ab98a0c8ee50340b completed May 10, 2026, 4 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00ac54a11c81909afe9244e9fe0656 completed May 10, 2026, 4:03 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:22 a.m.