Triple

T12885919
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Pale King E308223 entity
Predicate hasNotableCharacter P7927 FINISHED
Object Claude Sylvanshine
Claude Sylvanshine is a neurotic, numerically gifted IRS examiner whose anxiety, compulsive thinking, and strange quasi-mystical “fact psychic” tendencies make him one of the most distinctive characters in David Foster Wallace’s novel *The Pale King*.
E1009687 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: Claude Sylvanshine | Statement: [The Pale King, hasNotableCharacter, Claude Sylvanshine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Claude Sylvanshine
Context triple: [The Pale King, hasNotableCharacter, Claude Sylvanshine]
  • A. Claude Devorsine
    Claude Devorsine is a French architect best known for designing the Tour Bretagne skyscraper in Nantes.
  • B. Alain
    Alain is a masculine given name of French origin, derived from the Breton name Alan and widely used in French-speaking countries.
  • C. Rudolph Bloom
    Rudolph Bloom is the father of Leopold Bloom in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses," representing the protagonist’s Hungarian Jewish heritage and familial past.
  • D. Christophe
    Christophe is a French theoretical physicist and science communicator known for his popular science books and collaborations with Stephen Hawking.
  • E. Christophe
    Christophe is a French surname borne by individuals such as Anne-Athénaïre Christophe.
  • 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: Claude Sylvanshine
Triple: [The Pale King, hasNotableCharacter, Claude Sylvanshine]
Generated description
Claude Sylvanshine is a neurotic, numerically gifted IRS examiner whose anxiety, compulsive thinking, and strange quasi-mystical “fact psychic” tendencies make him one of the most distinctive characters in David Foster Wallace’s novel *The Pale King*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Claude Sylvanshine
Target entity description: Claude Sylvanshine is a neurotic, numerically gifted IRS examiner whose anxiety, compulsive thinking, and strange quasi-mystical “fact psychic” tendencies make him one of the most distinctive characters in David Foster Wallace’s novel *The Pale King*.
  • A. Claude Devorsine
    Claude Devorsine is a French architect best known for designing the Tour Bretagne skyscraper in Nantes.
  • B. Alain
    Alain is a masculine given name of French origin, derived from the Breton name Alan and widely used in French-speaking countries.
  • C. Rudolph Bloom
    Rudolph Bloom is the father of Leopold Bloom in James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses," representing the protagonist’s Hungarian Jewish heritage and familial past.
  • D. Christophe
    Christophe is a French surname borne by individuals such as Anne-Athénaïre Christophe.
  • E. Christophe
    Christophe is a masculine given name of Greek origin commonly used in French-speaking countries.
  • 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_69d7bdf7c1f0819098102569a8d8cbf5 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9714415c08190aa9944b494a3ddad completed April 10, 2026, 9:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6a5556fe081909ada9d491b21b17b completed May 3, 2026, 1:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6a616f6e4819096c9850434882548 completed May 3, 2026, 1:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6a716bb2c81909dccc5ddbf3c92b5 completed May 3, 2026, 1:38 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:39 p.m.