Triple

T13648070
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Motherless Brooklyn E326655 entity
Predicate protagonist P268 FINISHED
Object Lionel Essrog
Lionel Essrog is a Brooklyn private investigator with Tourette syndrome whose compulsive tics and verbal outbursts shape his distinctive voice and perspective in Jonathan Lethem’s novel "Motherless Brooklyn."
E1053797 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: Lionel Essrog | Statement: [Motherless Brooklyn, protagonist, Lionel Essrog]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lionel Essrog
Context triple: [Motherless Brooklyn, protagonist, Lionel Essrog]
  • A. Benjy Eisen
    Benjy Eisen is a music journalist and author best known for co-writing memoirs with Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann.
  • B. Brian Weiss
    Brian Weiss is an American psychiatrist and author best known for popularizing past-life regression therapy through his bestselling books and public lectures.
  • C. Nathaniel Blume
    Nathaniel Blume is a contemporary American composer best known for his work on television and film scores, particularly in the crime and thriller genres.
  • D. Levi Marks
    Levi Marks was an individual significant enough in local history or development that the town of Marks, Mississippi, was named in his honor.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Lionel Essrog
Triple: [Motherless Brooklyn, protagonist, Lionel Essrog]
Generated description
Lionel Essrog is a Brooklyn private investigator with Tourette syndrome whose compulsive tics and verbal outbursts shape his distinctive voice and perspective in Jonathan Lethem’s novel "Motherless Brooklyn."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lionel Essrog
Target entity description: Lionel Essrog is a Brooklyn private investigator with Tourette syndrome whose compulsive tics and verbal outbursts shape his distinctive voice and perspective in Jonathan Lethem’s novel "Motherless Brooklyn."
  • A. Benjy Eisen
    Benjy Eisen is a music journalist and author best known for co-writing memoirs with Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann.
  • B. Brian Weiss
    Brian Weiss is an American psychiatrist and author best known for popularizing past-life regression therapy through his bestselling books and public lectures.
  • C. Nathaniel Blume
    Nathaniel Blume is a contemporary American composer best known for his work on television and film scores, particularly in the crime and thriller genres.
  • D. Levi Marks
    Levi Marks was an individual significant enough in local history or development that the town of Marks, Mississippi, was named in his honor.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69d8076d8270819092afc2f0e9c359a8 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbc6073e888190965456a639839749 completed April 12, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f78afbf8948190ad38ea7529e52f16 completed May 3, 2026, 5:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f78bd52b748190ab483ec7634a6549 completed May 3, 2026, 5:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f78d277c5c8190970cb3cd0fd32905 completed May 3, 2026, 6 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:52 p.m.