Triple

T5815233
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tatyana Tolstaya E128967 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object Nikolai Tolstoy
Nikolai Tolstoy is a British-Russian historian and author known for his works on World War II, Soviet history, and controversial accounts of forced repatriations.
E583656 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: Nikolai Tolstoy | Statement: [Tatyana Tolstaya, relative, Nikolai Tolstoy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nikolai Tolstoy
Context triple: [Tatyana Tolstaya, relative, Nikolai Tolstoy]
  • A. Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy
    Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy was a prominent 19th-century Russian statesman and conservative reformer who served as Minister of Education and later as Minister of the Interior in the Russian Empire.
  • B. Pyotr Tolstoy
    Pyotr Tolstoy is a Russian politician and television presenter, known as a prominent contemporary member of the historic Tolstoy family.
  • C. Ilya Lvovich Tolstoy
    Ilya Lvovich Tolstoy was a Russian writer, public figure, and the son of the famous novelist Leo Tolstoy, known for his memoirs and work promoting his father's legacy.
  • D. Fyodor Tolstoy
    Fyodor Tolstoy was a Russian nobleman and artist from the prominent Tolstoy family, known for his work as a painter, engraver, and medalist in the early 19th century.
  • E. Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy
    Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy was a Russian musician, composer, and translator, best known as the eldest son of the writer Leo Tolstoy and for promoting his father’s literary legacy.
  • 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: Nikolai Tolstoy
Triple: [Tatyana Tolstaya, relative, Nikolai Tolstoy]
Generated description
Nikolai Tolstoy is a British-Russian historian and author known for his works on World War II, Soviet history, and controversial accounts of forced repatriations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nikolai Tolstoy
Target entity description: Nikolai Tolstoy is a British-Russian historian and author known for his works on World War II, Soviet history, and controversial accounts of forced repatriations.
  • A. Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy
    Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy was a prominent 19th-century Russian statesman and conservative reformer who served as Minister of Education and later as Minister of the Interior in the Russian Empire.
  • B. Pyotr Tolstoy
    Pyotr Tolstoy is a Russian politician and television presenter, known as a prominent contemporary member of the historic Tolstoy family.
  • C. Ilya Lvovich Tolstoy
    Ilya Lvovich Tolstoy was a Russian writer, public figure, and the son of the famous novelist Leo Tolstoy, known for his memoirs and work promoting his father's legacy.
  • D. Fyodor Tolstoy
    Fyodor Tolstoy was a Russian nobleman and artist from the prominent Tolstoy family, known for his work as a painter, engraver, and medalist in the early 19th century.
  • E. Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy
    Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy was a Russian musician, composer, and translator, best known as the eldest son of the writer Leo Tolstoy and for promoting his father’s literary legacy.
  • 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_69c0084788848190bcf71f6bc5d71597 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0336344148190bcf417c0b9617cb9 completed March 22, 2026, 6:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c5e38ae278819096aefcfbf98873dd completed March 27, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c5e4af6b28819088158c50de820297 completed March 27, 2026, 2 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c5e5abb4408190a2a54a26e1479851 completed March 27, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:53 p.m.