Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Memorandum E575238 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Jan Ballas
Jan Ballas is a central character in Václav Havel’s satirical play "The Memorandum," known as an ambitious bureaucrat who exploits a new artificial office language to consolidate power within a dehumanizing corporate hierarchy.
E1569527 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: Jan Ballas | Statement: [The Memorandum, character, Jan Ballas]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jan Ballas
Context triple: [The Memorandum, character, Jan Ballas]
  • A. Edward Villella
    Edward Villella is an acclaimed American ballet dancer and choreographer, best known as a star principal of the New York City Ballet and a leading interpreter of George Balanchine’s works.
  • B. James Ballas
    James Ballas is a film editor known for his work on the movie "The Shaggy Dog."
  • C. Janis Krums
    Janis Krums is an entrepreneur best known for taking and sharing the iconic first photo of US Airways Flight 1549’s emergency landing on the Hudson River, which became an early landmark moment in citizen journalism on social media.
  • D. Mikhail Baryshnikov
    Mikhail Baryshnikov is a Latvian-American dancer, choreographer, and actor widely regarded as one of the greatest ballet artists of the 20th century.
  • E. Corky Ballas
    Corky Ballas is a renowned American ballroom dancer and coach, best known for training multiple world champions and appearing as a professional on Dancing with the Stars.
  • 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: Jan Ballas
Triple: [The Memorandum, character, Jan Ballas]
Generated description
Jan Ballas is a central character in Václav Havel’s satirical play "The Memorandum," known as an ambitious bureaucrat who exploits a new artificial office language to consolidate power within a dehumanizing corporate hierarchy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jan Ballas
Target entity description: Jan Ballas is a central character in Václav Havel’s satirical play "The Memorandum," known as an ambitious bureaucrat who exploits a new artificial office language to consolidate power within a dehumanizing corporate hierarchy.
  • A. Edward Villella
    Edward Villella is an acclaimed American ballet dancer and choreographer, best known as a star principal of the New York City Ballet and a leading interpreter of George Balanchine’s works.
  • B. James Ballas
    James Ballas is a film editor known for his work on the movie "The Shaggy Dog."
  • C. Janis Krums
    Janis Krums is an entrepreneur best known for taking and sharing the iconic first photo of US Airways Flight 1549’s emergency landing on the Hudson River, which became an early landmark moment in citizen journalism on social media.
  • D. Mikhail Baryshnikov
    Mikhail Baryshnikov is a Latvian-American dancer, choreographer, and actor widely regarded as one of the greatest ballet artists of the 20th century.
  • E. Corky Ballas
    Corky Ballas is a renowned American ballroom dancer and coach, best known for training multiple world champions and appearing as a professional on Dancing with the Stars.
  • 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_69e245be28d48190ad1348d5a73db37d completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18c60fa6c81908496f181c7d62033 completed April 29, 2026, 4:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c15a941748190b6c44e4a6e6256e2 completed May 19, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c1647dc2881909ee6c13b48b71b8d completed May 19, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c187f6eec81909cf9a62835d56391 completed May 19, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:56 p.m.