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]
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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.
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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.
Émile Nouguier
Émile Nouguier was a French civil engineer best known as one of the principal designers of the Eiffel Tower.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.