Triple
T319671
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Dean Howells |
E7784
|
entity |
| Predicate | influencedBy |
P9
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Honoré de Balzac |
E10494
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Honoré de Balzac | Statement: [William Dean Howells, influencedBy, Honoré de Balzac]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Honoré de Balzac Context triple: [William Dean Howells, influencedBy, Honoré de Balzac]
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A.
Honoré de Balzac
chosen
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.
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B.
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.
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C.
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo was a 19th-century French novelist, poet, and dramatist, best known for works such as "Les Misérables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame."
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D.
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas was a prolific 19th-century French novelist and playwright best known for his swashbuckling historical adventures such as "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Three Musketeers."
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E.
André Malraux
André Malraux was a prominent 20th-century French novelist, art theorist, and statesman closely associated with Charles de Gaulle and known for his influential role in shaping modern French cultural policy.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a2e7e7af7881908890039d6be4e9b8 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2ea7edbc48190b9031bd1af48f72a |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:15 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a3cafef7d48190b00f577488298605 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 5:13 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.