Triple

T19224829
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Beatrice and Virgil E480710 entity
Predicate characterType P662 FINISHED
Object Virgil is a howler monkey
Virgil is a howler monkey is a fictional animal character from Yann Martel’s novel *Beatrice and Virgil*, used to explore themes of suffering, memory, and the Holocaust through allegory.
E1364674 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: Virgil is a howler monkey | Statement: [Beatrice and Virgil, characterType, Virgil is a howler monkey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virgil is a howler monkey
Context triple: [Beatrice and Virgil, characterType, Virgil is a howler monkey]
  • A. Love Monkey
    Love Monkey is a short-lived 2006 American television dramedy series about a music executive navigating his personal and professional life in New York City.
  • B. Gorilla
    Gorilla is a large, predominantly herbivorous great ape native to the forests of central Sub-Saharan Africa and known for its strength, complex social groups, and close genetic relationship to humans.
  • C. Gorilla
    "Gorilla" is a song by Bruno Mars from his album *Unorthodox Jukebox*, known for its sultry lyrics and rock-influenced pop sound.
  • D. Professor Monkey-For-A-Head
    Professor Monkey-For-A-Head is a recurring mad-scientist villain from the Earthworm Jim video game and animated series, known for literally having a monkey grafted onto his head.
  • E. Ampersand (Yorick’s monkey)
    Ampersand is the capuchin monkey companion of Yorick Brown in the comic series "Y: The Last Man," central to the mystery of why he and Yorick survived a global male-extinction plague.
  • 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: Virgil is a howler monkey
Triple: [Beatrice and Virgil, characterType, Virgil is a howler monkey]
Generated description
Virgil is a howler monkey is a fictional animal character from Yann Martel’s novel *Beatrice and Virgil*, used to explore themes of suffering, memory, and the Holocaust through allegory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Virgil is a howler monkey
Target entity description: Virgil is a howler monkey is a fictional animal character from Yann Martel’s novel *Beatrice and Virgil*, used to explore themes of suffering, memory, and the Holocaust through allegory.
  • A. Love Monkey
    Love Monkey is a short-lived 2006 American television dramedy series about a music executive navigating his personal and professional life in New York City.
  • B. Gorilla
    Gorilla is a large, predominantly herbivorous great ape native to the forests of central Sub-Saharan Africa and known for its strength, complex social groups, and close genetic relationship to humans.
  • C. Gorilla
    "Gorilla" is a song by Bruno Mars from his album *Unorthodox Jukebox*, known for its sultry lyrics and rock-influenced pop sound.
  • D. Professor Monkey-For-A-Head
    Professor Monkey-For-A-Head is a recurring mad-scientist villain from the Earthworm Jim video game and animated series, known for literally having a monkey grafted onto his head.
  • E. Ampersand (Yorick’s monkey)
    Ampersand is the capuchin monkey companion of Yorick Brown in the comic series "Y: The Last Man," central to the mystery of why he and Yorick survived a global male-extinction plague.
  • 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_69d8e8ccb8f48190ad420098e74fb1db completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5fa97287c8190b85184a512a9c960 completed April 20, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0700eeb9808190857f490dec27be69 completed May 15, 2026, 11:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0701a602c88190bc06dc616f3be6f1 completed May 15, 2026, 11:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07027372c88190b19ea77d9b610a56 completed May 15, 2026, 11:24 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:24 p.m.