Triple

T4800169
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Durand E106813 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Alphonse Durand
Alphonse Durand was a 19th-century French architect known for his work on religious and public buildings.
 E474106 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Alphonse Durand | Statement: [Durand, hasNotableBearer, Alphonse Durand]

Disambiguation candidates (2 decisions)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alphonse Durand
Context triple: [Durand, hasNotableBearer, Alphonse Durand]
  • A. Auguste Durand
    Auguste Durand was a prominent 19th-century French music publisher known for issuing works by major composers such as Debussy, Ravel, and Saint-Saëns.
  • B. Adolphe Billault
    Adolphe Billault was a 19th-century French lawyer and politician who became a prominent statesman during the Second French Empire.
  • C. Alphonse Balat
    Alphonse Balat was a 19th-century Belgian architect best known as a mentor to Victor Horta and for pioneering elegant glass-and-iron structures that helped shape early modern architecture.
  • D. Gustave Colin
    Gustave Colin was a 19th-century French painter associated with early Impressionism, known for his landscapes and genre scenes.
  • E. Henri Meilhac
    Henri Meilhac was a 19th-century French dramatist and librettist best known for his collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on operas by composers such as Georges Bizet and Jacques Offenbach.
  • 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: Alphonse Durand
Target entity description: Alphonse Durand was a 19th-century French architect known for his work on religious and public buildings.
  • A. Auguste Durand
    Auguste Durand was a prominent 19th-century French music publisher known for issuing works by major composers such as Debussy, Ravel, and Saint-Saëns.
  • B. Adolphe Billault
    Adolphe Billault was a 19th-century French lawyer and politician who became a prominent statesman during the Second French Empire.
  • C. Alphonse Balat
    Alphonse Balat was a 19th-century Belgian architect best known as a mentor to Victor Horta and for pioneering elegant glass-and-iron structures that helped shape early modern architecture.
  • D. Gustave Colin
    Gustave Colin was a 19th-century French painter associated with early Impressionism, known for his landscapes and genre scenes.
  • E. Henri Meilhac
    Henri Meilhac was a 19th-century French dramatist and librettist best known for his collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on operas by composers such as Georges Bizet and Jacques Offenbach.
  • F. None of above. chosen

How the object was described

The object's one-sentence description was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the object name and this triple as context.

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: Alphonse Durand
Triple: [Durand, hasNotableBearer, Alphonse Durand]
Generated description
Alphonse Durand was a 19th-century French architect known for his work on religious and public buildings.

Provenance (5 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69bd43f6a1e08190bf0a372bfc336ee5 elicitation completed
NER batch_69bd663512d0819099064903613108d9 ner completed
NED1 batch_69be5c9fae9c8190bc231f3f83b82303 ned_source_triple completed
NED2 batch_69be5faec3ec8190bd57707ced7a157f ned_description completed
NEDg batch_69be5e92732481909385becd518db017 nedg completed
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:23 p.m.