Triple
T5638382
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Dead Souls |
E124203
|
entity |
| Predicate | containsCharacter |
P5716
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Plyushkin
Plyushkin is a miserly, grotesquely stingy landowner in Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls," symbolizing the extreme degradation of the human soul through greed and neglect.
|
E542371
|
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: Plyushkin | Statement: [Dead Souls, containsCharacter, Plyushkin]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Plyushkin Context triple: [Dead Souls, containsCharacter, Plyushkin]
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A.
Nozdryov
Nozdryov is a boisterous, dishonest, and troublemaking landowner in Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls," known for his compulsive lying and love of gambling and chaos.
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B.
Vitaly
Vitaly is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Russian-speaking countries.
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C.
Vasily
Vasily is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Russian-speaking countries.
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D.
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.
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E.
Andrey Voronikhin
Andrey Voronikhin was a prominent Russian neoclassical architect of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for shaping the architectural landscape of St. Petersburg.
- 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: Plyushkin Triple: [Dead Souls, containsCharacter, Plyushkin]
Generated description
Plyushkin is a miserly, grotesquely stingy landowner in Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls," symbolizing the extreme degradation of the human soul through greed and neglect.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Plyushkin Target entity description: Plyushkin is a miserly, grotesquely stingy landowner in Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls," symbolizing the extreme degradation of the human soul through greed and neglect.
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A.
Nozdryov
Nozdryov is a boisterous, dishonest, and troublemaking landowner in Nikolai Gogol's novel "Dead Souls," known for his compulsive lying and love of gambling and chaos.
-
B.
Vitaly
Vitaly is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Russian-speaking countries.
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C.
Vasily
Vasily is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Russian-speaking countries.
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D.
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.
-
E.
Andrey Voronikhin
Andrey Voronikhin was a prominent Russian neoclassical architect of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, noted for shaping the architectural landscape of St. Petersburg.
- 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_69c05a1a14208190a0934d7c6cf0fd5e |
completed | March 22, 2026, 9:07 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c05e02edc48190938613946f19df01 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 9:24 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c06209c3588190a6ededf9c198d5c5 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 9:41 p.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:41 p.m.