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]
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A.
Sebaldus Nothanker
Sebaldus Nothanker is a satirical novel by Friedrich Nicolai that critiques religious hypocrisy and social conditions in late 18th-century Germany.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.