Triple

T7697041
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Professor Cuthbert Calculus E174395 entity
Predicate appearsIn P795 FINISHED
Object The Calculus Affair
The Calculus Affair is a Tintin comic adventure by Hergé in which Tintin and Captain Haddock become embroiled in Cold War espionage surrounding Professor Calculus’s dangerous new invention.
E682228 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 Calculus Affair | Statement: [Professor Cuthbert Calculus, appearsIn, The Calculus Affair]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Calculus Affair
Context triple: [Professor Cuthbert Calculus, appearsIn, The Calculus Affair]
  • A. A Question of Proof
    A Question of Proof is a 1935 detective novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake and introducing his amateur sleuth Nigel Strangeways.
  • B. The Heart of the Matter
    The Heart of the Matter is a 1948 novel by Graham Greene that explores moral conflict, guilt, and faith through the story of a conflicted British colonial officer in West Africa.
  • C. The Intrigue
    The Intrigue is a famous 1890 painting by Belgian expressionist James Ensor, known for its grotesque masked figures and satirical depiction of bourgeois society.
  • D. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
    The Seven-Per-Cent Solution is a 1976 mystery film (based on Nicholas Meyer’s novel) that reimagines Sherlock Holmes undergoing treatment for his cocaine addiction while confronting a new case involving Professor Moriarty.
  • E. The Confusion
    The Confusion is a historical science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson, forming the second volume of his Baroque Cycle and blending adventure, science, and political intrigue in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • 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 Calculus Affair
Triple: [Professor Cuthbert Calculus, appearsIn, The Calculus Affair]
Generated description
The Calculus Affair is a Tintin comic adventure by Hergé in which Tintin and Captain Haddock become embroiled in Cold War espionage surrounding Professor Calculus’s dangerous new invention.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Calculus Affair
Target entity description: The Calculus Affair is a Tintin comic adventure by Hergé in which Tintin and Captain Haddock become embroiled in Cold War espionage surrounding Professor Calculus’s dangerous new invention.
  • A. A Question of Proof
    A Question of Proof is a 1935 detective novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, written under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake and introducing his amateur sleuth Nigel Strangeways.
  • B. The Heart of the Matter
    The Heart of the Matter is a 1948 novel by Graham Greene that explores moral conflict, guilt, and faith through the story of a conflicted British colonial officer in West Africa.
  • C. The Intrigue
    The Intrigue is a famous 1890 painting by Belgian expressionist James Ensor, known for its grotesque masked figures and satirical depiction of bourgeois society.
  • D. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
    The Seven-Per-Cent Solution is a 1976 mystery film (based on Nicholas Meyer’s novel) that reimagines Sherlock Holmes undergoing treatment for his cocaine addiction while confronting a new case involving Professor Moriarty.
  • E. The Confusion
    The Confusion is a historical science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson, forming the second volume of his Baroque Cycle and blending adventure, science, and political intrigue in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • 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_69c6995a72cc8190998e56daa6f8e453 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c702693ee8819080a483c347710b24 completed March 27, 2026, 10:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8acaee2c481909efa30125e8ca890 completed March 29, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8add4153081909f8d77b019a64a2f completed March 29, 2026, 4:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8ae60b30881908c100ae489d6577e completed March 29, 2026, 4:45 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:03 p.m.