Triple

T5638399
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Overcoat E124204 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin
Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin is the meek, impoverished government clerk whose tragic obsession with a new overcoat forms the heart of Nikolai Gogol’s classic short story "The Overcoat."
E535115 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: Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin | Statement: [The Overcoat, mainCharacter, Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin
Context triple: [The Overcoat, mainCharacter, Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin]
  • A. Ivan Ivanovich
    Ivan Ivanovich was the eldest son and heir apparent of Tsar Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) of Russia, whose death—traditionally believed to have been caused by his father—had major consequences for the Russian succession.
  • B. Foma Gordeyev
    Foma Gordeyev is a novel by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that portrays the moral and spiritual decline of a wealthy merchant’s son amid the social tensions of late 19th-century Russia.
  • C. Malyuta Skuratov
    Malyuta Skuratov was a notorious 16th-century Russian oprichnik and close enforcer of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, infamous for his role in brutal repressions.
  • D. Urusov
    Urusov is a Russian noble family name historically associated with princely lineage and notable figures in Russian society.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin
Triple: [The Overcoat, mainCharacter, Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin]
Generated description
Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin is the meek, impoverished government clerk whose tragic obsession with a new overcoat forms the heart of Nikolai Gogol’s classic short story "The Overcoat."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin
Target entity description: Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin is the meek, impoverished government clerk whose tragic obsession with a new overcoat forms the heart of Nikolai Gogol’s classic short story "The Overcoat."
  • A. Ivan Ivanovich
    Ivan Ivanovich was the eldest son and heir apparent of Tsar Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) of Russia, whose death—traditionally believed to have been caused by his father—had major consequences for the Russian succession.
  • B. Foma Gordeyev
    Foma Gordeyev is a novel by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that portrays the moral and spiritual decline of a wealthy merchant’s son amid the social tensions of late 19th-century Russia.
  • C. Malyuta Skuratov
    Malyuta Skuratov was a notorious 16th-century Russian oprichnik and close enforcer of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, infamous for his role in brutal repressions.
  • D. Urusov
    Urusov is a Russian noble family name historically associated with princely lineage and notable figures in Russian society.
  • E. 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.
  • 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.