Triple

T6821429
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Little Prince E156906 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object the railway switchman
The railway switchman is a philosophical character in "The Little Prince" who manages trains and reflects on the hurried, aimless lives of adults.
E621810 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: the railway switchman | Statement: [The Little Prince, hasCharacter, the railway switchman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: the railway switchman
Context triple: [The Little Prince, hasCharacter, the railway switchman]
  • A. The Railway
    The Railway is an 1873 oil painting by Édouard Manet depicting a woman and a young girl by a Paris train station, notable for its modern urban subject and unconventional composition.
  • B. Motorman
    Motorman is the codename for a British police investigation into the illegal acquisition of personal data by private investigators and journalists.
  • C. Správa železnic
    Správa železnic is the Czech state organization responsible for managing and developing the country’s railway infrastructure and stations.
  • D. This Train
    "This Train" is a song by reggae artist International Herb, likely reflecting his roots-influenced style and themes.
  • E. The Station
    The Station is a painting by British artist L. S. Lowry, known for its distinctive depiction of industrial urban life with stylized figures and stark architectural forms.
  • 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: the railway switchman
Triple: [The Little Prince, hasCharacter, the railway switchman]
Generated description
The railway switchman is a philosophical character in "The Little Prince" who manages trains and reflects on the hurried, aimless lives of adults.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: the railway switchman
Target entity description: The railway switchman is a philosophical character in "The Little Prince" who manages trains and reflects on the hurried, aimless lives of adults.
  • A. The Railway
    The Railway is an 1873 oil painting by Édouard Manet depicting a woman and a young girl by a Paris train station, notable for its modern urban subject and unconventional composition.
  • B. Motorman
    Motorman is the codename for a British police investigation into the illegal acquisition of personal data by private investigators and journalists.
  • C. Správa železnic
    Správa železnic is the Czech state organization responsible for managing and developing the country’s railway infrastructure and stations.
  • D. This Train
    "This Train" is a song by reggae artist International Herb, likely reflecting his roots-influenced style and themes.
  • E. The Station
    The Station is a painting by British artist L. S. Lowry, known for its distinctive depiction of industrial urban life with stylized figures and stark architectural forms.
  • 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_69c688298a288190af3f285d57f76bbe completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d35a8af08190a172c7baa16a3b62 completed March 27, 2026, 6:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c723eb23c8819085d2e8a8ce9c3c90 completed March 28, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c724b7b31081909c2bab4a3ba6e9f9 completed March 28, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c72536c4808190b9012e282cf02da4 completed March 28, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:17 p.m.