Triple

T3689948
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Raymond Aron E78317 entity
Predicate notableStudent P4838 FINISHED
Object Alain Besançon
Alain Besançon is a French historian and intellectual known for his influential analyses of Soviet communism, Russian history, and the nature of totalitarian ideologies.
E552415 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: Alain Besançon | Statement: [Raymond Aron, notableStudent, Alain Besançon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alain Besançon
Context triple: [Raymond Aron, notableStudent, Alain Besançon]
  • A. Frédéric Bricout
    Frédéric Bricout is a French politician who serves as the mayor of the northern French city of Cambrai.
  • B. Bernard Guillembet
    Bernard Guillembet was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Vignemale in the Pyrenees.
  • C. Pierre Bossan
    Pierre Bossan was a 19th-century French architect best known for designing the monumental Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière in Lyon.
  • D. Louis Boisot
    Louis Boisot was a Dutch nobleman and admiral of the Sea Beggars who played a key role in the Dutch Revolt by helping to relieve the besieged city of Leiden in 1574.
  • E. Daniel Pomarède
    Daniel Pomarède is a French astrophysicist known for his work in cosmography and for helping map and characterize large-scale structures of the universe, including major galaxy superclusters.
  • 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: Alain Besançon
Triple: [Raymond Aron, notableStudent, Alain Besançon]
Generated description
Alain Besançon is a French historian and intellectual known for his influential analyses of Soviet communism, Russian history, and the nature of totalitarian ideologies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alain Besançon
Target entity description: Alain Besançon is a French historian and intellectual known for his influential analyses of Soviet communism, Russian history, and the nature of totalitarian ideologies.
  • A. Frédéric Bricout
    Frédéric Bricout is a French politician who serves as the mayor of the northern French city of Cambrai.
  • B. Bernard Guillembet
    Bernard Guillembet was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Vignemale in the Pyrenees.
  • C. Pierre Bossan
    Pierre Bossan was a 19th-century French architect best known for designing the monumental Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière in Lyon.
  • D. Louis Boisot
    Louis Boisot was a Dutch nobleman and admiral of the Sea Beggars who played a key role in the Dutch Revolt by helping to relieve the besieged city of Leiden in 1574.
  • E. Daniel Pomarède
    Daniel Pomarède is a French astrophysicist known for his work in cosmography and for helping map and characterize large-scale structures of the universe, including major galaxy superclusters.
  • 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_69ad85e285a081908f8cbfa9e2ed9b75 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc4cb47208190b1321af859d02c51 completed March 8, 2026, 6:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0b069d3fc8190bac9d178a571b72d completed March 23, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0b1c9ebdc819089752d150b584a6f completed March 23, 2026, 3:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0b27981848190a5b7c618044241b0 completed March 23, 2026, 3:24 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:26 p.m.