Triple

T4422859
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film) E95141 entity
Predicate characterPortrayed P1507 FINISHED
Object Sydney Carton
Sydney Carton is a dissipated but brilliant English lawyer in Charles Dickens' novel "A Tale of Two Cities," whose ultimate act of self-sacrifice defines his redemption.
E437318 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: Sydney Carton | Statement: [A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film), characterPortrayed, Sydney Carton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sydney Carton
Context triple: [A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film), characterPortrayed, Sydney Carton]
  • A. Jean-Baptiste Carrier
    Jean-Baptiste Carrier was a radical French Revolutionary politician and Jacobin best known for orchestrating brutal mass executions during the Reign of Terror, particularly in Nantes.
  • B. François Ravaillac
    François Ravaillac was a French Catholic zealot best known for assassinating King Henry IV of France in 1610.
  • C. Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie
    Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, better known as Joséphine de Beauharnais, was the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte and the first Empress of the French.
  • D. Marcelle Corday
    Marcelle Corday was a Belgian-born American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, known for her supporting roles in numerous Hollywood productions.
  • E. Jean-Paul Marat
    Jean-Paul Marat was a radical French revolutionary leader, journalist, and politician known for his fiery writings in L'Ami du peuple and his role in inciting popular violence during the French Revolution.
  • 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: Sydney Carton
Triple: [A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film), characterPortrayed, Sydney Carton]
Generated description
Sydney Carton is a dissipated but brilliant English lawyer in Charles Dickens' novel "A Tale of Two Cities," whose ultimate act of self-sacrifice defines his redemption.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sydney Carton
Target entity description: Sydney Carton is a dissipated but brilliant English lawyer in Charles Dickens' novel "A Tale of Two Cities," whose ultimate act of self-sacrifice defines his redemption.
  • A. Jean-Baptiste Carrier
    Jean-Baptiste Carrier was a radical French Revolutionary politician and Jacobin best known for orchestrating brutal mass executions during the Reign of Terror, particularly in Nantes.
  • B. François Ravaillac
    François Ravaillac was a French Catholic zealot best known for assassinating King Henry IV of France in 1610.
  • C. Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie
    Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, better known as Joséphine de Beauharnais, was the first wife of Napoleon Bonaparte and the first Empress of the French.
  • D. Marcelle Corday
    Marcelle Corday was a Belgian-born American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, known for her supporting roles in numerous Hollywood productions.
  • E. Jean-Paul Marat
    Jean-Paul Marat was a radical French revolutionary leader, journalist, and politician known for his fiery writings in L'Ami du peuple and his role in inciting popular violence during the French Revolution.
  • 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_69b3453a36908190b95a79a297ca083c completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b3554b36a48190a475ac5474bed132 completed March 13, 2026, 12:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5f62bbee48190bae8fc7b9cc29086 completed March 14, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5f6b132a88190950cde007375965a completed March 15, 2026, midnight
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5f7794d7081909eb494c2119eaee7 completed March 15, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:30 p.m.