Triple

T545167
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Émile Zola E12715 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object François Zola
François Zola was a French engineer of Italian origin best known for designing the Zola Dam near Aix-en-Provence and for being the father of novelist Émile Zola.
E71802 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: François Zola | Statement: [Émile Zola, father, François Zola]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: François Zola
Context triple: [Émile Zola, father, François Zola]
  • A. Alexandrine Zola
    Alexandrine Zola was the wife of French novelist Émile Zola, known for her long and complex marriage to the prominent naturalist writer and her role in managing his household and legacy.
  • 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.
  • C. Émile Nouguier
    Émile Nouguier was a French civil engineer best known as one of the principal designers of the Eiffel Tower.
  • D. Théodore Maunoir
    Théodore Maunoir was a Swiss physician and humanitarian who was one of the key co-founders of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the 19th century.
  • E. Auguste de Montferrand
    Auguste de Montferrand was a 19th-century French-born architect best known for designing monumental neoclassical buildings in Russia, most notably in Saint Petersburg.
  • 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: François Zola
Triple: [Émile Zola, father, François Zola]
Generated description
François Zola was a French engineer of Italian origin best known for designing the Zola Dam near Aix-en-Provence and for being the father of novelist Émile Zola.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: François Zola
Target entity description: François Zola was a French engineer of Italian origin best known for designing the Zola Dam near Aix-en-Provence and for being the father of novelist Émile Zola.
  • A. Alexandrine Zola
    Alexandrine Zola was the wife of French novelist Émile Zola, known for her long and complex marriage to the prominent naturalist writer and her role in managing his household and legacy.
  • 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.
  • C. Émile Nouguier
    Émile Nouguier was a French civil engineer best known as one of the principal designers of the Eiffel Tower.
  • D. Théodore Maunoir
    Théodore Maunoir was a Swiss physician and humanitarian who was one of the key co-founders of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the 19th century.
  • E. Auguste de Montferrand
    Auguste de Montferrand was a 19th-century French-born architect best known for designing monumental neoclassical buildings in Russia, most notably in Saint Petersburg.
  • 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_69a49334226c81908b0ea1689ef6aa3f completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a498dfec5c81908b76d723b30dc2f0 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4ff488e648190b74d3000e45226b4 completed March 2, 2026, 3:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4ffd32a4c8190ba048fc723813189 completed March 2, 2026, 3:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5001de9c481909d43c001028c922c completed March 2, 2026, 3:12 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.