Triple

T382240
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The English Patient E8704 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object David Caravaggio
David Caravaggio is a morphine-addicted Canadian thief and spy whose war-scarred past and quest for truth intertwine with the lives of other characters in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "The English Patient."
E48048 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: David Caravaggio | Statement: [The English Patient, mainCharacter, David Caravaggio]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Caravaggio
Context triple: [The English Patient, mainCharacter, David Caravaggio]
  • A. Caravaggio
    Caravaggio was a revolutionary Italian Baroque painter renowned for his dramatic use of chiaroscuro and realistic, emotionally intense depictions of biblical and everyday scenes.
  • B. Diego Velázquez
    Diego Velázquez was a leading 17th-century Spanish painter renowned for his masterful realism and influential works such as "Las Meninas," which made him a central figure of the Spanish Golden Age.
  • C. Raphael
    Raphael was a master Italian High Renaissance painter and architect renowned for his harmonious compositions and influential work in both painting and church design.
  • D. Peter Paul Rubens
    Peter Paul Rubens was a prolific 17th-century Flemish Baroque painter renowned for his dynamic compositions, vibrant color, and dramatic depictions of religious, mythological, and historical subjects.
  • E. El Greco
    El Greco was a Greek-born Renaissance painter active in Spain, renowned for his dramatic, elongated figures and expressive use of color and light that profoundly influenced later art movements.
  • 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: David Caravaggio
Triple: [The English Patient, mainCharacter, David Caravaggio]
Generated description
David Caravaggio is a morphine-addicted Canadian thief and spy whose war-scarred past and quest for truth intertwine with the lives of other characters in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "The English Patient."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Caravaggio
Target entity description: David Caravaggio is a morphine-addicted Canadian thief and spy whose war-scarred past and quest for truth intertwine with the lives of other characters in Michael Ondaatje’s novel "The English Patient."
  • A. Caravaggio
    Caravaggio was a revolutionary Italian Baroque painter renowned for his dramatic use of chiaroscuro and realistic, emotionally intense depictions of biblical and everyday scenes.
  • B. Diego Velázquez
    Diego Velázquez was a leading 17th-century Spanish painter renowned for his masterful realism and influential works such as "Las Meninas," which made him a central figure of the Spanish Golden Age.
  • C. Raphael
    Raphael was a master Italian High Renaissance painter and architect renowned for his harmonious compositions and influential work in both painting and church design.
  • D. Peter Paul Rubens
    Peter Paul Rubens was a prolific 17th-century Flemish Baroque painter renowned for his dynamic compositions, vibrant color, and dramatic depictions of religious, mythological, and historical subjects.
  • E. El Greco
    El Greco was a Greek-born Renaissance painter active in Spain, renowned for his dramatic, elongated figures and expressive use of color and light that profoundly influenced later art movements.
  • 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_69a2e7f47dd08190a4e294ccbbe46cd4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec2e3d5c8190b358bd9fd6b16a14 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3fb0100fc8190819b977bb7a98d7f completed March 1, 2026, 8:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3fb6569e881909d52f07a4207ed24 completed March 1, 2026, 8:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3fbdfdfcc81909ae03736623594d5 completed March 1, 2026, 8:42 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.