Triple
T22460338
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Total S.A. |
E555211
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Ernest Mercier |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Ernest Mercier | Statement: [Total S.A., foundedBy, Ernest Mercier]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernest Mercier Context triple: [Total S.A., foundedBy, Ernest Mercier]
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A.
Auguste Mercier
Auguste Mercier was a French general and Minister of War best known for his central and controversial role in the Dreyfus affair.
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B.
Ernest-Jean Sarrasine
Ernest-Jean Sarrasine is the passionate and impulsive sculptor protagonist of Honoré de Balzac’s novella "Sarrasine," whose tragic infatuation with a castrato singer drives the story’s dramatic conflict.
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C.
Auguste Vabre
Auguste Vabre is a fictional character in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," known as the husband of Berthe Josserand within the Parisian bourgeois milieu Zola portrays.
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D.
Philippe Gautier
Philippe Gautier is a Belgian jurist and legal scholar who serves as the Registrar of the International Court of Justice, overseeing its judicial administration and registry.
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E.
Ernest Cormier
Ernest Cormier was a prominent Canadian architect and engineer known for his influential Art Deco designs, including major institutional and governmental buildings in Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernest Mercier Target entity description: Ernest Mercier was a French industrialist and engineer best known for founding the major energy company that later became Total S.A.
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A.
Auguste Mercier
Auguste Mercier was a French general and Minister of War best known for his central and controversial role in the Dreyfus affair.
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B.
Ernest-Jean Sarrasine
Ernest-Jean Sarrasine is the passionate and impulsive sculptor protagonist of Honoré de Balzac’s novella "Sarrasine," whose tragic infatuation with a castrato singer drives the story’s dramatic conflict.
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C.
Auguste Vabre
Auguste Vabre is a fictional character in Émile Zola’s novel "Pot-Bouille," known as the husband of Berthe Josserand within the Parisian bourgeois milieu Zola portrays.
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D.
Philippe Gautier
Philippe Gautier is a Belgian jurist and legal scholar who serves as the Registrar of the International Court of Justice, overseeing its judicial administration and registry.
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E.
Ernest Cormier
Ernest Cormier was a prominent Canadian architect and engineer known for his influential Art Deco designs, including major institutional and governmental buildings in Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 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_69e11e51fdec8190adfdf9f8a6362221 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f15b7eb5688190bd5e41d4d8189668 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 1:14 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:48 p.m.