Triple

T12170415
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close E289945 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Oskar Schell
Oskar Schell is the precocious, emotionally troubled young boy who embarks on a quest across New York City to cope with his father's death in Jonathan Safran Foer's novel "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close."
E964416 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: Oskar Schell | Statement: [Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, mainCharacter, Oskar Schell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oskar Schell
Context triple: [Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, mainCharacter, Oskar Schell]
  • A. Herbert Kretzmer
    Herbert Kretzmer was a South African-born British journalist and lyricist best known for writing the English-language lyrics for the musical Les Misérables.
  • B. Armen Weitzman
    Armen Weitzman is an American actor and comedian known for his offbeat roles in television and film, including the period comedy series "Another Period."
  • C. Michael Henry Heim
    Michael Henry Heim was a renowned American translator and scholar celebrated for bringing major works of Central and Eastern European literature into English.
  • D. Oskar Werner
    Oskar Werner was an acclaimed Austrian actor known for his intense, introspective performances in European and Hollywood films of the mid-20th century.
  • E. Walter Pick
    Walter Pick was the husband of Holocaust survivor Hannah Goslar, who was known for her close childhood friendship with Anne Frank.
  • 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: Oskar Schell
Triple: [Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, mainCharacter, Oskar Schell]
Generated description
Oskar Schell is the precocious, emotionally troubled young boy who embarks on a quest across New York City to cope with his father's death in Jonathan Safran Foer's novel "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oskar Schell
Target entity description: Oskar Schell is the precocious, emotionally troubled young boy who embarks on a quest across New York City to cope with his father's death in Jonathan Safran Foer's novel "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close."
  • A. Herbert Kretzmer
    Herbert Kretzmer was a South African-born British journalist and lyricist best known for writing the English-language lyrics for the musical Les Misérables.
  • B. Armen Weitzman
    Armen Weitzman is an American actor and comedian known for his offbeat roles in television and film, including the period comedy series "Another Period."
  • C. Michael Henry Heim
    Michael Henry Heim was a renowned American translator and scholar celebrated for bringing major works of Central and Eastern European literature into English.
  • D. Oskar Werner
    Oskar Werner was an acclaimed Austrian actor known for his intense, introspective performances in European and Hollywood films of the mid-20th century.
  • E. Walter Pick
    Walter Pick was the husband of Holocaust survivor Hannah Goslar, who was known for her close childhood friendship with Anne Frank.
  • 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_69d6ab4d6c00819095a9a7c35de83cfb completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d915d9659481909c75b12aa836bbf3 completed April 10, 2026, 3:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f5f6a45568819090662cd3547c9253 completed May 2, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f5ff826ea08190a6780351e4b927ac completed May 2, 2026, 1:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f60185ce8c8190abe3b1f633aac55d completed May 2, 2026, 1:52 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:50 p.m.