Triple

T2854996
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Crying of Lot 49 E63178 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Dr. Hilarius
Dr. Hilarius is a sinister, possibly deranged psychiatrist in Thomas Pynchon’s novel "The Crying of Lot 49," known for his unsettling experiments and darkly comic presence.
E305351 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: Dr. Hilarius | Statement: [The Crying of Lot 49, mainCharacter, Dr. Hilarius]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Hilarius
Context triple: [The Crying of Lot 49, mainCharacter, Dr. Hilarius]
  • A. Dr. Delmarre
    Dr. Delmarre is a key character in Isaac Asimov's science fiction novel "The Naked Sun," serving as a prominent roboticist whose death becomes the central mystery of the story.
  • B. Dr. Adolphus Bedlo
    Dr. Adolphus Bedlo is a bumbling, cowardly sorcerer portrayed by Peter Lorre in the 1963 horror-comedy film "The Raven."
  • C. Dr. John Freind
    Dr. John Freind was an early 18th-century English physician and scholar known for his influential medical writings and his connections with leading literary and intellectual figures of his time.
  • D. Dr. Robinson
    Dr. Robinson is a minor but pivotal character in Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," whose murder in the graveyard sets off a central mystery in the story.
  • E. Doctor Caius
    Doctor Caius is a comically hot-tempered French physician in Shakespeare’s play "The Merry Wives of Windsor," known for his exaggerated accent and farcical attempts at courtship and dueling.
  • 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: Dr. Hilarius
Triple: [The Crying of Lot 49, mainCharacter, Dr. Hilarius]
Generated description
Dr. Hilarius is a sinister, possibly deranged psychiatrist in Thomas Pynchon’s novel "The Crying of Lot 49," known for his unsettling experiments and darkly comic presence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Hilarius
Target entity description: Dr. Hilarius is a sinister, possibly deranged psychiatrist in Thomas Pynchon’s novel "The Crying of Lot 49," known for his unsettling experiments and darkly comic presence.
  • A. Dr. Delmarre
    Dr. Delmarre is a key character in Isaac Asimov's science fiction novel "The Naked Sun," serving as a prominent roboticist whose death becomes the central mystery of the story.
  • B. Dr. Adolphus Bedlo
    Dr. Adolphus Bedlo is a bumbling, cowardly sorcerer portrayed by Peter Lorre in the 1963 horror-comedy film "The Raven."
  • C. Dr. John Freind
    Dr. John Freind was an early 18th-century English physician and scholar known for his influential medical writings and his connections with leading literary and intellectual figures of his time.
  • D. Dr. Robinson
    Dr. Robinson is a minor but pivotal character in Mark Twain's novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," whose murder in the graveyard sets off a central mystery in the story.
  • E. Doctor Caius
    Doctor Caius is a comically hot-tempered French physician in Shakespeare’s play "The Merry Wives of Windsor," known for his exaggerated accent and farcical attempts at courtship and dueling.
  • 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_69ab4c407c408190857d25e027155ce9 completed March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdf60852c8190b66c8719c63a723e completed March 7, 2026, 8:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b01d8774cc8190aa6ed40b26c4a568 completed March 10, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b01ea4e3a481909241383e2c4093d8 completed March 10, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b01f1a9ac48190b8d2b5247cb2c3d8 completed March 10, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:02 p.m.