Triple

T14179463
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Madame Bovary E351414 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Monsieur Homais
Monsieur Homais is the self-satisfied, bourgeois pharmacist in Gustave Flaubert’s novel "Madame Bovary," known for his pedantry, anticlerical views, and embodiment of provincial mediocrity.
E1084656 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: Monsieur Homais | Statement: [Madame Bovary, character, Monsieur Homais]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Monsieur Homais
Context triple: [Madame Bovary, character, Monsieur Homais]
  • A. Abbé Birotteau
    Abbé Birotteau is a timid, naive priest whose misfortunes and conflicts in provincial society form the core of Honoré de Balzac’s novella "Le Curé de Tours."
  • B. Félicien Menu de Ménil
    Félicien Menu de Ménil was a French composer and early Esperantist known for creating influential musical works within the Esperanto movement.
  • C. Monsieur Vabre
    Monsieur Vabre is a fictional bourgeois Parisian property owner in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," embodying the hypocrisies and moral decay of the 19th-century middle class.
  • D. Monsieur Quesnel
    Monsieur Quesnel is a character in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel "The Mysteries of Udolpho," known as Emily St. Aubert’s self-interested and unsympathetic relative.
  • E. Monsieur Purgon
    Monsieur Purgon is the authoritarian, profit-driven physician in Molière’s comedy *Le Malade imaginaire*, embodying the satire of dogmatic and self-interested medical practice.
  • 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: Monsieur Homais
Triple: [Madame Bovary, character, Monsieur Homais]
Generated description
Monsieur Homais is the self-satisfied, bourgeois pharmacist in Gustave Flaubert’s novel "Madame Bovary," known for his pedantry, anticlerical views, and embodiment of provincial mediocrity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Monsieur Homais
Target entity description: Monsieur Homais is the self-satisfied, bourgeois pharmacist in Gustave Flaubert’s novel "Madame Bovary," known for his pedantry, anticlerical views, and embodiment of provincial mediocrity.
  • A. Abbé Birotteau
    Abbé Birotteau is a timid, naive priest whose misfortunes and conflicts in provincial society form the core of Honoré de Balzac’s novella "Le Curé de Tours."
  • B. Félicien Menu de Ménil
    Félicien Menu de Ménil was a French composer and early Esperantist known for creating influential musical works within the Esperanto movement.
  • C. Monsieur Vabre
    Monsieur Vabre is a fictional bourgeois Parisian property owner in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," embodying the hypocrisies and moral decay of the 19th-century middle class.
  • D. Monsieur Quesnel
    Monsieur Quesnel is a character in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel "The Mysteries of Udolpho," known as Emily St. Aubert’s self-interested and unsympathetic relative.
  • E. Monsieur Purgon
    Monsieur Purgon is the authoritarian, profit-driven physician in Molière’s comedy *Le Malade imaginaire*, embodying the satire of dogmatic and self-interested medical practice.
  • 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_69d8278834a08190b0f1784e58d7b99c completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de61c90abc8190a9b9dc1f50db59fa completed April 14, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fcf80f03a48190a5374fb6374255a8 completed May 7, 2026, 8:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd09b00dc48190bec9853e3dc78f26 completed May 7, 2026, 9:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd0a4c377c81909af76e8bd47e2f2a completed May 7, 2026, 9:55 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:02 a.m.