Triple

T13034758
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Modeste Mignon E326530 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Melchior de Canalis
Melchior de Canalis is a fictional poet and aristocrat in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Modeste Mignon," embodying themes of ambition, vanity, and romantic intrigue within French high society.
 E1020364 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: Melchior de Canalis | Statement: [Modeste Mignon, hasCharacter, Melchior de Canalis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Melchior de Canalis
Context triple: [Modeste Mignon, hasCharacter, Melchior de Canalis]
  • A. Carlo Cignani
    Carlo Cignani was an Italian Baroque painter known for his refined classicist style and influential work in Bologna and Forlì.
  • B. Giovanni Francesco Marchini
    Giovanni Francesco Marchini was an artist known for contributing religious artworks, including pieces housed in the Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers in Germany.
  • C. Giovanni Battista Casoni
    Giovanni Battista Casoni was an Italian Catholic figure best known as the founder of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano.
  • D. Giovanni Guasconti
    Giovanni Guasconti is the young student protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” whose fascination with a mysterious, poisonous girl draws him into a tragic moral and scientific experiment.
  • E. Giovanni Battista Felice Gherardi
    Giovanni Battista Felice Gherardi was a notable author who wrote in the Venetian language, contributing to its literary tradition.
  • 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: Melchior de Canalis
Triple: [Modeste Mignon, hasCharacter, Melchior de Canalis]
Generated description
Melchior de Canalis is a fictional poet and aristocrat in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Modeste Mignon," embodying themes of ambition, vanity, and romantic intrigue within French high society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Melchior de Canalis
Target entity description: Melchior de Canalis is a fictional poet and aristocrat in Honoré de Balzac’s novel "Modeste Mignon," embodying themes of ambition, vanity, and romantic intrigue within French high society.
  • A. Carlo Cignani
    Carlo Cignani was an Italian Baroque painter known for his refined classicist style and influential work in Bologna and Forlì.
  • B. Giovanni Francesco Marchini
    Giovanni Francesco Marchini was an artist known for contributing religious artworks, including pieces housed in the Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers in Germany.
  • C. Giovanni Battista Casoni
    Giovanni Battista Casoni was an Italian Catholic figure best known as the founder of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano.
  • D. Giovanni Guasconti
    Giovanni Guasconti is the young student protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” whose fascination with a mysterious, poisonous girl draws him into a tragic moral and scientific experiment.
  • E. Giovanni Battista Felice Gherardi
    Giovanni Battista Felice Gherardi was a notable author who wrote in the Venetian language, contributing to its literary tradition.
  • 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_69d8076cc45c81908123123f43e69266 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97effca908190ab89fdb034e02680 completed April 10, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6d5fa10fc81908a37b85894f8f849 completed May 3, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6db65879c819092387e028b792ab9 completed May 3, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6dbec7e808190a7cee821ba193bb8 completed May 3, 2026, 5:23 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 8:54 p.m.