Triple

T12248589
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject President of Haiti E291912 entity
Predicate positionHeldBy P8 FINISHED
Object Prosper Avril
Prosper Avril is a former Haitian military officer who led a coup and ruled Haiti as its de facto president in the late 1980s.
 E977059 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Prosper Avril | Statement: [President of Haiti, positionHeldBy, Prosper Avril]

Disambiguation candidates (2 decisions)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Prosper Avril
Context triple: [President of Haiti, positionHeldBy, Prosper Avril]
  • A. Étienne
    Étienne is the given first name of the French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé.
  • B. Stephen Sauvestre
    Stephen Sauvestre was a French architect best known for designing the architectural embellishments and final aesthetic of the Eiffel Tower.
  • C. Alphonse Jourdain
    Alphonse Jourdain was a 12th-century French nobleman and Count of Toulouse known for his role in regional politics and territorial expansion in southern France.
  • D. Firmin
    Firmin is a French given name notably borne by Firmin Didot, a renowned printer, typefounder, and member of the influential Didot family in the history of typography.
  • E. Victor Meynard
    Victor Meynard is a middle-aged, solitary professional hitman whose life is upended when he unexpectedly becomes a mentor and protector in the French comedy film "Cible émouvante."
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Prosper Avril
Target entity description: Prosper Avril is a former Haitian military officer who led a coup and ruled Haiti as its de facto president in the late 1980s.
  • A. Étienne
    Étienne is the given first name of the French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé.
  • B. Stephen Sauvestre
    Stephen Sauvestre was a French architect best known for designing the architectural embellishments and final aesthetic of the Eiffel Tower.
  • C. Alphonse Jourdain
    Alphonse Jourdain was a 12th-century French nobleman and Count of Toulouse known for his role in regional politics and territorial expansion in southern France.
  • D. Firmin
    Firmin is a French given name notably borne by Firmin Didot, a renowned printer, typefounder, and member of the influential Didot family in the history of typography.
  • E. Victor Meynard
    Victor Meynard is a middle-aged, solitary professional hitman whose life is upended when he unexpectedly becomes a mentor and protector in the French comedy film "Cible émouvante."
  • F. None of above. chosen

How the object was described

The object's one-sentence description was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the object name and this triple as context.

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: Prosper Avril
Triple: [President of Haiti, positionHeldBy, Prosper Avril]
Generated description
Prosper Avril is a former Haitian military officer who led a coup and ruled Haiti as its de facto president in the late 1980s.

Provenance (5 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d6ab67950c8190be08450a06228c4b elicitation completed
NER batch_69d91cc50d808190a3c8d1ada31a6a91 ner completed
NED1 batch_69f62a921b8c8190b3f899b03575b194 ned_source_triple completed
NED2 batch_69f62c8194d881909db3d320a21f2052 ned_description completed
NEDg batch_69f62be354a88190aaf5e8439b33120b nedg completed
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:52 p.m.