Triple

T15686312
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tocqueville family E380209 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object Hervé de Tocqueville
Hervé de Tocqueville was a French aristocrat, public official, and writer best known as the father of political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville.
E1176378 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: Hervé de Tocqueville | Statement: [Tocqueville family, notableMember, Hervé de Tocqueville]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hervé de Tocqueville
Context triple: [Tocqueville family, notableMember, Hervé de Tocqueville]
  • A. Alexis de Tocqueville
    Alexis de Tocqueville was a 19th-century French political thinker and historian best known for his analysis of democracy and society in works such as "Democracy in America."
  • B. Hippolyte Taine
    Hippolyte Taine was a 19th-century French philosopher, historian, and literary critic known for his deterministic approach to history and literature, emphasizing the roles of race, milieu, and moment in shaping human behavior and culture.
  • C. Louis Dumont
    Louis Dumont was a French anthropologist best known for his influential analyses of caste, hierarchy, and individualism, particularly in Indian society.
  • D. Claude Lefort
    Claude Lefort was a French political philosopher known for his analyses of democracy, totalitarianism, and the symbolic foundations of modern political authority.
  • E. Michel Michelet
    Michel Michelet was a Russian-born French film composer known for scoring numerous European and American films in the mid-20th century.
  • 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: Hervé de Tocqueville
Triple: [Tocqueville family, notableMember, Hervé de Tocqueville]
Generated description
Hervé de Tocqueville was a French aristocrat, public official, and writer best known as the father of political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hervé de Tocqueville
Target entity description: Hervé de Tocqueville was a French aristocrat, public official, and writer best known as the father of political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville.
  • A. Alexis de Tocqueville
    Alexis de Tocqueville was a 19th-century French political thinker and historian best known for his analysis of democracy and society in works such as "Democracy in America."
  • B. Hippolyte Taine
    Hippolyte Taine was a 19th-century French philosopher, historian, and literary critic known for his deterministic approach to history and literature, emphasizing the roles of race, milieu, and moment in shaping human behavior and culture.
  • C. Louis Dumont
    Louis Dumont was a French anthropologist best known for his influential analyses of caste, hierarchy, and individualism, particularly in Indian society.
  • D. Claude Lefort
    Claude Lefort was a French political philosopher known for his analyses of democracy, totalitarianism, and the symbolic foundations of modern political authority.
  • E. Michel Michelet
    Michel Michelet was a Russian-born French film composer known for scoring numerous European and American films in the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69d86d99e860819094b6957cde470f2c completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04f4b73d881908ec0f21393a01969 completed April 16, 2026, 2:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff908dae948190bb6fb51e35aff5ac completed May 9, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff92d044f48190baefcf932f369350 completed May 9, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff934af4288190b3d3cad6af142334 completed May 9, 2026, 8:04 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:44 a.m.