Triple

T387488
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Ralston Saul E8809 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Voltaire’s Bastards
Voltaire’s Bastards is a non-fiction book by John Ralston Saul that critiques the dominance of rationalist technocracy in modern Western society and its corrosive effects on democracy and human values.
E49404 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: Voltaire’s Bastards | Statement: [John Ralston Saul, notableWork, Voltaire’s Bastards]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Voltaire’s Bastards
Context triple: [John Ralston Saul, notableWork, Voltaire’s Bastards]
  • A. Candide
    Candide is a satirical novella by Voltaire that follows a naïve young man’s disillusioning journey through a series of misfortunes, sharply critiquing philosophical optimism and societal hypocrisy.
  • B. The Scriblerus Club
    The Scriblerus Club was an early 18th-century London literary circle, including figures like Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, that satirized pretentious learning and bad taste through collaborative works.
  • C. Honi soit qui mal y pense
    "Honi soit qui mal y pense" is a medieval French phrase meaning "Shame on him who thinks evil of it," best known as the chivalric motto of England’s Order of the Garter.
  • D. Zadig
    Zadig is a philosophical novella by Voltaire that follows the trials of a wise and virtuous Babylonian man to satirize society, religion, and the nature of fate.
  • E. Le Siècle
    Le Siècle was a prominent 19th-century French newspaper known for publishing major literary works and influencing public opinion in France.
  • 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: Voltaire’s Bastards
Triple: [John Ralston Saul, notableWork, Voltaire’s Bastards]
Generated description
Voltaire’s Bastards is a non-fiction book by John Ralston Saul that critiques the dominance of rationalist technocracy in modern Western society and its corrosive effects on democracy and human values.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Voltaire’s Bastards
Target entity description: Voltaire’s Bastards is a non-fiction book by John Ralston Saul that critiques the dominance of rationalist technocracy in modern Western society and its corrosive effects on democracy and human values.
  • A. Candide
    Candide is a satirical novella by Voltaire that follows a naïve young man’s disillusioning journey through a series of misfortunes, sharply critiquing philosophical optimism and societal hypocrisy.
  • B. The Scriblerus Club
    The Scriblerus Club was an early 18th-century London literary circle, including figures like Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, that satirized pretentious learning and bad taste through collaborative works.
  • C. Honi soit qui mal y pense
    "Honi soit qui mal y pense" is a medieval French phrase meaning "Shame on him who thinks evil of it," best known as the chivalric motto of England’s Order of the Garter.
  • D. Zadig
    Zadig is a philosophical novella by Voltaire that follows the trials of a wise and virtuous Babylonian man to satirize society, religion, and the nature of fate.
  • E. Le Siècle
    Le Siècle was a prominent 19th-century French newspaper known for publishing major literary works and influencing public opinion in France.
  • 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_69a2e7f55c60819097aff65ea2ca2832 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec5828d881909e8810061c02480c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a403500d048190874ff9e3078d86fe completed March 1, 2026, 9:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4041ef2d8819086370c7f55887ae5 completed March 1, 2026, 9:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4048229bc8190afe728fce60b8eac completed March 1, 2026, 9:18 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.