Triple

T12781954
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Plague E305528 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Joseph Grand
Joseph Grand is a minor municipal clerk in Albert Camus's novel "The Plague," known for his obsessive struggle to craft the perfect sentence and his quiet, persevering decency amid the epidemic.
E1002269 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: Joseph Grand | Statement: [The Plague, mainCharacter, Joseph Grand]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Grand
Context triple: [The Plague, mainCharacter, Joseph Grand]
  • A. John George Brill
    John George Brill was a German-American industrialist and manufacturer best known for co-founding one of the leading streetcar and railway car builders in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. John Ginty
    John Ginty is an American keyboardist and organist known for his work in rock and jam bands, including as a member of the Tom Tom Club.
  • C. Hyman Brown
    Hyman Brown was a prolific American radio producer and director best known for creating and overseeing classic radio drama series such as "Inner Sanctum Mysteries" and "CBS Radio Mystery Theater."
  • D. Roger Malvin
    Roger Malvin is a fictional frontiersman in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Roger Malvin’s Burial,” whose broken promise and lingering guilt drive the tale’s tragic exploration of conscience and retribution.
  • E. William Barfée
    William Barfée is a socially awkward, allergy-prone spelling prodigy known for his “magic foot” spelling technique in the musical comedy *The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee*.
  • 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: Joseph Grand
Triple: [The Plague, mainCharacter, Joseph Grand]
Generated description
Joseph Grand is a minor municipal clerk in Albert Camus's novel "The Plague," known for his obsessive struggle to craft the perfect sentence and his quiet, persevering decency amid the epidemic.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Grand
Target entity description: Joseph Grand is a minor municipal clerk in Albert Camus's novel "The Plague," known for his obsessive struggle to craft the perfect sentence and his quiet, persevering decency amid the epidemic.
  • A. John George Brill
    John George Brill was a German-American industrialist and manufacturer best known for co-founding one of the leading streetcar and railway car builders in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. John Ginty
    John Ginty is an American keyboardist and organist known for his work in rock and jam bands, including as a member of the Tom Tom Club.
  • C. Hyman Brown
    Hyman Brown was a prolific American radio producer and director best known for creating and overseeing classic radio drama series such as "Inner Sanctum Mysteries" and "CBS Radio Mystery Theater."
  • D. Roger Malvin
    Roger Malvin is a fictional frontiersman in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Roger Malvin’s Burial,” whose broken promise and lingering guilt drive the tale’s tragic exploration of conscience and retribution.
  • E. William Barfée
    William Barfée is a socially awkward, allergy-prone spelling prodigy known for his “magic foot” spelling technique in the musical comedy *The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee*.
  • 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_69d7bdf2b43c819098ae5aa68e61ea58 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96e5b52048190b279b7ad066efe9f completed April 10, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f68504c95081909dc52cc02e43e8ba completed May 2, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f687fffe9c81909c58129162a0c231 completed May 2, 2026, 11:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f688cc57048190ba7bacdcd6c0c182 completed May 2, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.