Triple

T8545740
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject In Search of Lost Time E202319 entity
Predicate setting P1957 FINISHED
Object Balbec
Balbec is a fictional seaside resort town in Marcel Proust’s novel cycle "In Search of Lost Time," serving as a key backdrop for the narrator’s experiences and reflections on memory, love, and society.
 E751684 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: Balbec | Statement: [In Search of Lost Time, setting, Balbec]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Balbec
Context triple: [In Search of Lost Time, setting, Balbec]
  • A. Desnos
    Desnos is the surname of Robert Desnos, a notable French surrealist poet and member of the Resistance during World War II.
  • B. Noailles
    Noailles is a renowned art district in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, famous for its vibrant community of metal sculptors and artisans.
  • C. Ermenonville
    Ermenonville is a village in northern France known for its picturesque landscape garden and as the place where philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent his final days.
  • D. Étrépilly
    Étrépilly is a small French commune located in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
  • E. Louveciennes
    Louveciennes is a picturesque commune in north-central France, noted for its scenic landscapes that attracted Impressionist painters such as Camille Pissarro.
  • 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: Balbec
Triple: [In Search of Lost Time, setting, Balbec]
Generated description
Balbec is a fictional seaside resort town in Marcel Proust’s novel cycle "In Search of Lost Time," serving as a key backdrop for the narrator’s experiences and reflections on memory, love, and society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Balbec
Target entity description: Balbec is a fictional seaside resort town in Marcel Proust’s novel cycle "In Search of Lost Time," serving as a key backdrop for the narrator’s experiences and reflections on memory, love, and society.
  • A. Desnos
    Desnos is the surname of Robert Desnos, a notable French surrealist poet and member of the Resistance during World War II.
  • B. Noailles
    Noailles is a renowned art district in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, famous for its vibrant community of metal sculptors and artisans.
  • C. Ermenonville
    Ermenonville is a village in northern France known for its picturesque landscape garden and as the place where philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent his final days.
  • D. Étrépilly
    Étrépilly is a small French commune located in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
  • E. Louveciennes
    Louveciennes is a picturesque commune in north-central France, noted for its scenic landscapes that attracted Impressionist painters such as Camille Pissarro.
  • 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_69ca832461e88190a654c5e44e233aa8 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe74f62148190bfd6cacf5d4f74b6 completed March 31, 2026, 3:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cef318417881908619e137f22c6b74 completed April 2, 2026, 10:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cef4cbc0788190bf95aa8058a8d895 completed April 2, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cef830e4e48190bf337a526cc82119 completed April 2, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:18 p.m.