Triple

T21681921
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt E535128 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka
Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka is the timid, provincial landowner protagonist of Nikolai Gogol’s comic short story “Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt.”
E1496693 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: Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka | Statement: [Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt, mainCharacter, Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka
Context triple: [Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt, mainCharacter, Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka]
  • A. Iván Petrovich
    Iván Petrovich was a Serbian-born film actor prominent in European and early Hollywood cinema during the silent and early sound eras.
  • B. Ivan Fedyuninsky
    Ivan Fedyuninsky was a Soviet military commander and World War II general renowned for his leadership in several key Eastern Front operations.
  • C. Ivan Samoylovych
    Ivan Samoylovych was a 17th-century Hetman of Left-bank Ukraine who played a key role in Cossack politics and military campaigns under the Russian Tsardom.
  • D. Ivan Dmitrievich Kasatkin
    Ivan Dmitrievich Kasatkin, better known as Nicholas of Japan, was a Russian Orthodox priest and missionary who became the first Orthodox bishop in Japan and played a key role in establishing the Japanese Orthodox Church.
  • E. Alyosha Skvortsov
    Alyosha Skvortsov is the young, idealistic Soviet soldier who serves as the central protagonist in the classic 1959 war film "Ballad of a Soldier."
  • 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: Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka
Triple: [Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt, mainCharacter, Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka]
Generated description
Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka is the timid, provincial landowner protagonist of Nikolai Gogol’s comic short story “Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt.”
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka
Target entity description: Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka is the timid, provincial landowner protagonist of Nikolai Gogol’s comic short story “Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt.”
  • A. Iván Petrovich
    Iván Petrovich was a Serbian-born film actor prominent in European and early Hollywood cinema during the silent and early sound eras.
  • B. Ivan Fedyuninsky
    Ivan Fedyuninsky was a Soviet military commander and World War II general renowned for his leadership in several key Eastern Front operations.
  • C. Ivan Samoylovych
    Ivan Samoylovych was a 17th-century Hetman of Left-bank Ukraine who played a key role in Cossack politics and military campaigns under the Russian Tsardom.
  • D. Ivan Dmitrievich Kasatkin
    Ivan Dmitrievich Kasatkin, better known as Nicholas of Japan, was a Russian Orthodox priest and missionary who became the first Orthodox bishop in Japan and played a key role in establishing the Japanese Orthodox Church.
  • E. Alyosha Skvortsov
    Alyosha Skvortsov is the young, idealistic Soviet soldier who serves as the central protagonist in the classic 1959 war film "Ballad of a Soldier."
  • 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_69e0c469b6ec8190aee4cadd1527db91 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ef96c69990819088a1134ecea09099 completed April 27, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a1e1c9ad48190b2216c0c168343ae completed May 17, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a1eac9b648190881c97d474762fc0 completed May 17, 2026, 8:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a1f3b77488190bfb73b9e83446bb3 completed May 17, 2026, 8:04 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:43 p.m.