Triple

T11778042
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject À rebours E280068 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Jean des Esseintes
Jean des Esseintes is the reclusive, neurotic aristocrat whose extreme aestheticism and decadent lifestyle make him the central figure and embodiment of fin-de-siècle decadence in Joris-Karl Huysmans’ novel "À rebours."
E946090 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: Jean des Esseintes | Statement: [À rebours, mainCharacter, Jean des Esseintes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jean des Esseintes
Context triple: [À rebours, mainCharacter, Jean des Esseintes]
  • A. Baron de Charlus
    Baron de Charlus is a complex, aristocratic, and secretly homosexual nobleman whose eccentricity, snobbery, and emotional volatility make him one of the most memorable figures in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
  • B. Lucien de Rubempré
    Lucien de Rubempré is an ambitious but ultimately tragic young poet and social climber in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, whose rise and fall epitomize the corrupting allure of Parisian high society.
  • C. Rémalard
    Rémalard is a small commune in the Perche region of northwestern France, known for its rural charm and traditional Norman countryside.
  • D. Gilbert Osmond
    Gilbert Osmond is a manipulative, self-serving American expatriate in Henry James’s novel "The Portrait of a Lady," known for his aesthetic refinement and emotional cruelty toward Isabel Archer.
  • E. Madame Verdurin
    Madame Verdurin is a socially ambitious salon hostess in Marcel Proust’s "In Search of Lost Time," known for presiding over an exclusive artistic circle and exerting manipulative control over its members.
  • 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: Jean des Esseintes
Triple: [À rebours, mainCharacter, Jean des Esseintes]
Generated description
Jean des Esseintes is the reclusive, neurotic aristocrat whose extreme aestheticism and decadent lifestyle make him the central figure and embodiment of fin-de-siècle decadence in Joris-Karl Huysmans’ novel "À rebours."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jean des Esseintes
Target entity description: Jean des Esseintes is the reclusive, neurotic aristocrat whose extreme aestheticism and decadent lifestyle make him the central figure and embodiment of fin-de-siècle decadence in Joris-Karl Huysmans’ novel "À rebours."
  • A. Baron de Charlus
    Baron de Charlus is a complex, aristocratic, and secretly homosexual nobleman whose eccentricity, snobbery, and emotional volatility make him one of the most memorable figures in Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
  • B. Lucien de Rubempré
    Lucien de Rubempré is an ambitious but ultimately tragic young poet and social climber in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine, whose rise and fall epitomize the corrupting allure of Parisian high society.
  • C. Rémalard
    Rémalard is a small commune in the Perche region of northwestern France, known for its rural charm and traditional Norman countryside.
  • D. Gilbert Osmond
    Gilbert Osmond is a manipulative, self-serving American expatriate in Henry James’s novel "The Portrait of a Lady," known for his aesthetic refinement and emotional cruelty toward Isabel Archer.
  • E. Madame Verdurin
    Madame Verdurin is a socially ambitious salon hostess in Marcel Proust’s "In Search of Lost Time," known for presiding over an exclusive artistic circle and exerting manipulative control over its members.
  • 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_69d6ab01d2688190ad8ed6bda487eaa5 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a560bf548190afab3ad14f953a71 completed April 10, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f090b8f4c481908cb3cf03875c0e24 completed April 28, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f0bd3e585481908223acfd780a72a2 completed April 28, 2026, 1:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f0ef31076c8190b33a6a2778d7ffbb completed April 28, 2026, 5:32 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:42 p.m.