Triple

T913689
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Directory E19720 entity
Predicate notableLeader P304 FINISHED
Object Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai
Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai was a French lawyer, revolutionary politician, and prominent member of the French Directory who played a key role in shaping legal and political reforms during the French Revolution.
E166103 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: Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai | Statement: [Directory, notableLeader, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai
Context triple: [Directory, notableLeader, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai]
  • A. François Jouffroy
    François Jouffroy was a 19th-century French sculptor known for his neoclassical style and contributions to major Parisian monuments.
  • B. Charles-René de Bombelles
    Charles-René de Bombelles was a French nobleman and military officer who became the third husband of Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Napoleon Bonaparte’s former empress.
  • C. Jean-Baptiste Descamps
    Jean-Baptiste Descamps was an 18th-century French painter, art historian, and writer best known for his biographical dictionary of artists and his role in art education.
  • D. Ferdinand de Marsin
    Ferdinand de Marsin was a French general and marshal of France who served prominently during the War of the Spanish Succession.
  • E. Jean-Baptiste Huet
    Jean-Baptiste Huet was an 18th-century French painter and engraver best known for his pastoral scenes and designs for toile de Jouy textiles.
  • 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: Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai
Triple: [Directory, notableLeader, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai]
Generated description
Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai was a French lawyer, revolutionary politician, and prominent member of the French Directory who played a key role in shaping legal and political reforms during the French Revolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai
Target entity description: Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai was a French lawyer, revolutionary politician, and prominent member of the French Directory who played a key role in shaping legal and political reforms during the French Revolution.
  • A. François Jouffroy
    François Jouffroy was a 19th-century French sculptor known for his neoclassical style and contributions to major Parisian monuments.
  • B. Charles-René de Bombelles
    Charles-René de Bombelles was a French nobleman and military officer who became the third husband of Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Napoleon Bonaparte’s former empress.
  • C. Jean-Baptiste Descamps
    Jean-Baptiste Descamps was an 18th-century French painter, art historian, and writer best known for his biographical dictionary of artists and his role in art education.
  • D. Ferdinand de Marsin
    Ferdinand de Marsin was a French general and marshal of France who served prominently during the War of the Spanish Succession.
  • E. Jean-Baptiste Huet
    Jean-Baptiste Huet was an 18th-century French painter and engraver best known for his pastoral scenes and designs for toile de Jouy textiles.
  • 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_69a4939f91a08190ba68c2c81eab90fe completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b2e196688190a7c15c9c538d0295 completed March 1, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad0895e1b48190921b5ba783823f3c completed March 8, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad09bb040c8190bf014a9ff2249169 completed March 8, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad0a9956f8819081fd866c6f1ae5c7 completed March 8, 2026, 5:35 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.