Triple

T14245550
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bouvard et Pécuchet E353122 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object François Bouvard
François Bouvard is a fictional Parisian copyist whose naive pursuit of encyclopedic knowledge, alongside his friend Pécuchet, satirizes bourgeois pretensions and intellectual fads in Gustave Flaubert’s unfinished novel "Bouvard et Pécuchet."
E1095712 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: François Bouvard | Statement: [Bouvard et Pécuchet, mainCharacter, François Bouvard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: François Bouvard
Context triple: [Bouvard et Pécuchet, mainCharacter, François Bouvard]
  • A. Jérôme Lalande
    Jérôme Lalande was an 18th-century French astronomer known for his work in celestial mechanics, star catalogues, and popularizing astronomy.
  • B. Édouard Roche
    Édouard Roche was a 19th-century French astronomer and mathematician best known for formulating the Roche limit and making significant contributions to celestial mechanics.
  • C. Camille Flammarion
    Camille Flammarion was a French astronomer, author, and popularizer of science known for his influential works on astronomy and spiritualism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Georges Rayet
    Georges Rayet was a 19th-century French astronomer best known for co-discovering the class of hot, massive Wolf–Rayet stars.
  • E. Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion
    Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion was a French astronomer and author who contributed to observational astronomy and popular science, notably continuing and promoting the work of her husband, Camille Flammarion.
  • 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: François Bouvard
Triple: [Bouvard et Pécuchet, mainCharacter, François Bouvard]
Generated description
François Bouvard is a fictional Parisian copyist whose naive pursuit of encyclopedic knowledge, alongside his friend Pécuchet, satirizes bourgeois pretensions and intellectual fads in Gustave Flaubert’s unfinished novel "Bouvard et Pécuchet."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: François Bouvard
Target entity description: François Bouvard is a fictional Parisian copyist whose naive pursuit of encyclopedic knowledge, alongside his friend Pécuchet, satirizes bourgeois pretensions and intellectual fads in Gustave Flaubert’s unfinished novel "Bouvard et Pécuchet."
  • A. Jérôme Lalande
    Jérôme Lalande was an 18th-century French astronomer known for his work in celestial mechanics, star catalogues, and popularizing astronomy.
  • B. Édouard Roche
    Édouard Roche was a 19th-century French astronomer and mathematician best known for formulating the Roche limit and making significant contributions to celestial mechanics.
  • C. Camille Flammarion
    Camille Flammarion was a French astronomer, author, and popularizer of science known for his influential works on astronomy and spiritualism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Georges Rayet
    Georges Rayet was a 19th-century French astronomer best known for co-discovering the class of hot, massive Wolf–Rayet stars.
  • E. Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion
    Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion was a French astronomer and author who contributed to observational astronomy and popular science, notably continuing and promoting the work of her husband, Camille Flammarion.
  • 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_69d8278adc7c8190a9218d69bce3c4e6 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de629464f88190817b190731bab156 completed April 14, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd4c2bbfec81909ade3dd4306d69e3 completed May 8, 2026, 2:36 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd4d912ff08190b3594dd134ef7e40 completed May 8, 2026, 2:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd4e7e7c508190a42070a2f2b33425 completed May 8, 2026, 2:46 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:08 a.m.