Triple

T13822315
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Foucault's Pendulum E332166 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Casaubon
Casaubon is the introspective narrator and scholar in Umberto Eco's novel "Foucault's Pendulum," who becomes entangled in an elaborate conspiracy involving secret societies and esoteric knowledge.
E1063285 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: Casaubon | Statement: [Foucault's Pendulum, mainCharacter, Casaubon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Casaubon
Context triple: [Foucault's Pendulum, mainCharacter, Casaubon]
  • A. Sebaldus Nothanker
    Sebaldus Nothanker is a satirical novel by Friedrich Nicolai that critiques religious hypocrisy and social conditions in late 18th-century Germany.
  • B. Pierre Menard
    Pierre Menard was an early 19th-century American politician and fur trader who became a prominent leader in the Illinois Territory and later the state of Illinois.
  • C. Edward Casaubon
    Edward Casaubon is a pedantic, aging scholar in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch," best known as Dorothea Brooke’s ill-suited husband whose futile intellectual ambitions and emotional coldness drive much of the story’s tragedy.
  • D. Gulielmus Occamus
    Gulielmus Occamus is the Latin name of William of Ockham, a medieval English Franciscan friar, philosopher, and theologian best known for formulating the principle now called Occam’s razor.
  • E. Avenzoar
    Avenzoar, also known as Ibn Zuhr, was a prominent 12th-century Andalusian physician and surgeon whose clinical observations significantly advanced medieval medicine.
  • 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: Casaubon
Triple: [Foucault's Pendulum, mainCharacter, Casaubon]
Generated description
Casaubon is the introspective narrator and scholar in Umberto Eco's novel "Foucault's Pendulum," who becomes entangled in an elaborate conspiracy involving secret societies and esoteric knowledge.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Casaubon
Target entity description: Casaubon is the introspective narrator and scholar in Umberto Eco's novel "Foucault's Pendulum," who becomes entangled in an elaborate conspiracy involving secret societies and esoteric knowledge.
  • A. Sebaldus Nothanker
    Sebaldus Nothanker is a satirical novel by Friedrich Nicolai that critiques religious hypocrisy and social conditions in late 18th-century Germany.
  • B. Pierre Menard
    Pierre Menard was an early 19th-century American politician and fur trader who became a prominent leader in the Illinois Territory and later the state of Illinois.
  • C. Edward Casaubon
    Edward Casaubon is a pedantic, aging scholar in George Eliot’s novel "Middlemarch," best known as Dorothea Brooke’s ill-suited husband whose futile intellectual ambitions and emotional coldness drive much of the story’s tragedy.
  • D. Gulielmus Occamus
    Gulielmus Occamus is the Latin name of William of Ockham, a medieval English Franciscan friar, philosopher, and theologian best known for formulating the principle now called Occam’s razor.
  • E. Avenzoar
    Avenzoar, also known as Ibn Zuhr, was a prominent 12th-century Andalusian physician and surgeon whose clinical observations significantly advanced medieval medicine.
  • 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_69d81c5ae7c88190b0dd41bdafeb5999 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de0284428081908043c55caeefb833 completed April 14, 2026, 9:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7b8e60e1c81908d51d723e85e0541 completed May 3, 2026, 9:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7b9d81f488190875e9b3f885556ab completed May 3, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7ba936c4481908757699ff22d3904 completed May 3, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:13 p.m.