Triple

T5638380
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dead Souls E124203 entity
Predicate containsCharacter P5716 FINISHED
Object Sobakevich
Sobakevich is a solid, bear-like landowner in Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls," known for his blunt practicality and coarse materialism.
 E535113 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: Sobakevich | Statement: [Dead Souls, containsCharacter, Sobakevich]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sobakevich
Context triple: [Dead Souls, containsCharacter, Sobakevich]
  • A. Pozdnyshev
    Pozdnyshev is the tormented, jealous husband and central narrator of Leo Tolstoy’s novella "The Kreutzer Sonata," whose confession of murdering his wife drives the story’s exploration of marriage, sexuality, and morality.
  • B. Peshkov
    Peshkov is a Russian surname most famously borne by Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, better known by his pen name Maxim Gorky, a prominent writer and political activist.
  • C. Yagoda
    Yagoda is a Russian surname most notably associated with Genrikh Yagoda, a Soviet secret police official and early head of the NKVD under Joseph Stalin.
  • D. Muravyov-Karsky
    Muravyov-Karsky was a 19th-century Russian general best known for his prominent role in the Russo-Turkish wars and the conquest of Kars in the Caucasus.
  • E. Bérégovoy
    Bérégovoy is the surname of Pierre Bérégovoy, a prominent French Socialist politician who served as Prime Minister of France in the early 1990s.
  • 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: Sobakevich
Triple: [Dead Souls, containsCharacter, Sobakevich]
Generated description
Sobakevich is a solid, bear-like landowner in Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls," known for his blunt practicality and coarse materialism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sobakevich
Target entity description: Sobakevich is a solid, bear-like landowner in Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls," known for his blunt practicality and coarse materialism.
  • A. Pozdnyshev
    Pozdnyshev is the tormented, jealous husband and central narrator of Leo Tolstoy’s novella "The Kreutzer Sonata," whose confession of murdering his wife drives the story’s exploration of marriage, sexuality, and morality.
  • B. Peshkov
    Peshkov is a Russian surname most famously borne by Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, better known by his pen name Maxim Gorky, a prominent writer and political activist.
  • C. Yagoda
    Yagoda is a Russian surname most notably associated with Genrikh Yagoda, a Soviet secret police official and early head of the NKVD under Joseph Stalin.
  • D. Muravyov-Karsky
    Muravyov-Karsky was a 19th-century Russian general best known for his prominent role in the Russo-Turkish wars and the conquest of Kars in the Caucasus.
  • E. Bérégovoy
    Bérégovoy is the surname of Pierre Bérégovoy, a prominent French Socialist politician who served as Prime Minister of France in the early 1990s.
  • 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_69c00824643c81909ffdb888a2d35189 completed March 22, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c022820b7c81908f79c0a124d6b940 completed March 22, 2026, 5:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c04d7456408190962c476f2848927e completed March 22, 2026, 8:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c04edaa7408190811007d27549a35d completed March 22, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c04ff40ce88190a9aa8886c22386e1 completed March 22, 2026, 8:24 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:41 p.m.