Triple

T13648269
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chronic City E326660 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Perkus Tooth
Perkus Tooth is an eccentric, conspiracy-obsessed cultural critic and central figure in Jonathan Lethem’s novel "Chronic City."
E1053808 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: Perkus Tooth | Statement: [Chronic City, hasCharacter, Perkus Tooth]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Perkus Tooth
Context triple: [Chronic City, hasCharacter, Perkus Tooth]
  • A. Denti
    Denti is an Italian film featuring actor and director Sergio Rubini, known for its darkly comic exploration of relationships and personal neuroses.
  • B. Zahniser
    Zahniser is a surname most notably associated with Howard Zahniser, the American environmentalist and principal author of the U.S. Wilderness Act.
  • C. The Tooth Puller
    The Tooth Puller is a Baroque genre painting by Flemish artist Theodoor Rombouts depicting a dramatic scene of a dentist extracting a patient’s tooth, rendered in a Caravaggesque style with strong chiaroscuro and expressive figures.
  • D. The Tooth
    "The Tooth" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, included in her collection *The Lottery and Other Stories*, that blends psychological unease with elements of the uncanny.
  • E. Muldental
    Muldental is the valley region surrounding the Mulde River in Germany, known for its scenic landscapes and small towns.
  • 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: Perkus Tooth
Triple: [Chronic City, hasCharacter, Perkus Tooth]
Generated description
Perkus Tooth is an eccentric, conspiracy-obsessed cultural critic and central figure in Jonathan Lethem’s novel "Chronic City."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Perkus Tooth
Target entity description: Perkus Tooth is an eccentric, conspiracy-obsessed cultural critic and central figure in Jonathan Lethem’s novel "Chronic City."
  • A. Denti
    Denti is an Italian film featuring actor and director Sergio Rubini, known for its darkly comic exploration of relationships and personal neuroses.
  • B. Zahniser
    Zahniser is a surname most notably associated with Howard Zahniser, the American environmentalist and principal author of the U.S. Wilderness Act.
  • C. The Tooth Puller
    The Tooth Puller is a Baroque genre painting by Flemish artist Theodoor Rombouts depicting a dramatic scene of a dentist extracting a patient’s tooth, rendered in a Caravaggesque style with strong chiaroscuro and expressive figures.
  • D. The Tooth
    "The Tooth" is a short story by Shirley Jackson, included in her collection *The Lottery and Other Stories*, that blends psychological unease with elements of the uncanny.
  • E. Muldental
    Muldental is the valley region surrounding the Mulde River in Germany, known for its scenic landscapes and small towns.
  • 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.