Triple

T505520
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Honoré de Balzac E10494 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Bernard-François Balzac
Bernard-François Balzac was a French civil servant and administrator best known as the father of the novelist Honoré de Balzac.
E63929 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: Bernard-François Balzac | Statement: [Honoré de Balzac, father, Bernard-François Balzac]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernard-François Balzac
Context triple: [Honoré de Balzac, father, Bernard-François Balzac]
  • A. Honoré de Balzac
    Honoré de Balzac was a 19th-century French novelist and playwright best known for his vast interconnected series of novels and stories, "La Comédie Humaine," which offers a detailed, panoramic portrayal of French society.
  • B. Émile Zola
    Émile Zola was a leading 19th-century French novelist, critic, and public intellectual whose socially engaged, naturalist works and interventions like the "J'accuse…!" letter made him a central figure in modern European literature and politics.
  • C. Alexandre Dumas
    Alexandre Dumas was a prolific 19th-century French novelist and playwright best known for his swashbuckling historical adventures such as "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Three Musketeers."
  • D. Victor Hugo
    Victor Hugo was a 19th-century French novelist, poet, and dramatist, best known for works such as "Les Misérables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame."
  • E. Honoré Daumet
    Honoré Daumet was a prominent 19th-century French architect known for his work on major public buildings and contributions to the Beaux-Arts architectural tradition.
  • 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: Bernard-François Balzac
Triple: [Honoré de Balzac, father, Bernard-François Balzac]
Generated description
Bernard-François Balzac was a French civil servant and administrator best known as the father of the novelist Honoré de Balzac.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernard-François Balzac
Target entity description: Bernard-François Balzac was a French civil servant and administrator best known as the father of the novelist Honoré de Balzac.
  • A. Honoré de Balzac
    Honoré de Balzac was a 19th-century French novelist and playwright best known for his vast interconnected series of novels and stories, "La Comédie Humaine," which offers a detailed, panoramic portrayal of French society.
  • B. Émile Zola
    Émile Zola was a leading 19th-century French novelist, critic, and public intellectual whose socially engaged, naturalist works and interventions like the "J'accuse…!" letter made him a central figure in modern European literature and politics.
  • C. Alexandre Dumas
    Alexandre Dumas was a prolific 19th-century French novelist and playwright best known for his swashbuckling historical adventures such as "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Three Musketeers."
  • D. Victor Hugo
    Victor Hugo was a 19th-century French novelist, poet, and dramatist, best known for works such as "Les Misérables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame."
  • E. Honoré Daumet
    Honoré Daumet was a prominent 19th-century French architect known for his work on major public buildings and contributions to the Beaux-Arts architectural tradition.
  • 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_69a2e848adf881908e5e04f7af030093 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f14b2acc8190818e8a53eac69c54 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4a14c7d0481908368fb33ab14f4c6 completed March 1, 2026, 8:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4a1b157dc8190a45625668678c96a completed March 1, 2026, 8:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4a21596d88190bab7a940f3020377 completed March 1, 2026, 8:31 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.