Triple

T1880175
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject University of Poitiers E39833 entity
Predicate educated P5 FINISHED
Object Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac was a 17th-century French writer and stylist renowned for his influential letters, which helped shape classical French prose.
E210339 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: Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac | Statement: [University of Poitiers, educated, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac
Context triple: [University of Poitiers, educated, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac]
  • A. Bernard-François Balzac
    Bernard-François Balzac was a French civil servant and administrator best known as the father of the novelist Honoré de Balzac.
  • B. Honoré de Balzac
    Honoré de Balzac was a 19th-century French novelist and playwright best known for his vast interconnected series of novels and stories, "La Comédie Humaine," which offers a detailed, panoramic portrayal of French society.
  • C. Gustave Flaubert
    Gustave Flaubert was a 19th-century French novelist renowned for his meticulous style and his seminal realist work "Madame Bovary."
  • D. Émile Zola
    Émile Zola was a leading 19th-century French novelist, critic, and public intellectual whose socially engaged, naturalist works and interventions like the "J'accuse…!" letter made him a central figure in modern European literature and politics.
  • E. Alexandrine Zola
    Alexandrine Zola was the wife of French novelist Émile Zola, known for her long and complex marriage to the prominent naturalist writer and her role in managing his household and legacy.
  • 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: Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac
Triple: [University of Poitiers, educated, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac]
Generated description
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac was a 17th-century French writer and stylist renowned for his influential letters, which helped shape classical French prose.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac
Target entity description: Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac was a 17th-century French writer and stylist renowned for his influential letters, which helped shape classical French prose.
  • A. Bernard-François Balzac
    Bernard-François Balzac was a French civil servant and administrator best known as the father of the novelist Honoré de Balzac.
  • B. Honoré de Balzac
    Honoré de Balzac was a 19th-century French novelist and playwright best known for his vast interconnected series of novels and stories, "La Comédie Humaine," which offers a detailed, panoramic portrayal of French society.
  • C. Gustave Flaubert
    Gustave Flaubert was a 19th-century French novelist renowned for his meticulous style and his seminal realist work "Madame Bovary."
  • D. Émile Zola
    Émile Zola was a leading 19th-century French novelist, critic, and public intellectual whose socially engaged, naturalist works and interventions like the "J'accuse…!" letter made him a central figure in modern European literature and politics.
  • E. Alexandrine Zola
    Alexandrine Zola was the wife of French novelist Émile Zola, known for her long and complex marriage to the prominent naturalist writer and her role in managing his household and legacy.
  • 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_69a88633e4fc8190b7eb40463e048ec5 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb0fa3d388190993073ffb0f60a84 completed March 7, 2026, 5 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69addf5c55e081909fc6912e1283a73a completed March 8, 2026, 8:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ade089c3848190a730957799b08993 completed March 8, 2026, 8:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ade14bd7e48190bf7d4832a4d46992 completed March 8, 2026, 8:51 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:34 p.m.