Triple

T12170427
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close E289945 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Thomas Schell
Thomas Schell is the deceased father whose memory and mysterious key drive his son Oskar’s emotional and physical journey through New York City in Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close."
 E1099946 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: Thomas Schell | Statement: [Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, character, Thomas Schell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Schell
Context triple: [Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, character, Thomas Schell]
  • A. Thomas Eichhorst
    Thomas Eichhorst is a high-ranking Nazi-turned-vampiric servant of the Master in "The Strain," known as the longtime nemesis of Abraham Setrakian.
  • B. Erich Rothacker
    Erich Rothacker was a German philosopher and cultural theorist known for his work in philosophical anthropology and the humanities, and for supervising Jürgen Habermas’s doctoral studies.
  • C. Erwin Schoettle
    Erwin Schoettle was a German Social Democratic politician and resistance figure who became a prominent postwar Bundestag member and federal official.
  • D. Herbert Sattler
    Herbert Sattler is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake bearer of the surname Sattler.
  • E. Erich Schiffmann
    Erich Schiffmann is an American yoga master and author known for his influential teachings on intuitive, meditative yoga practice.
  • 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: Thomas Schell
Triple: [Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, character, Thomas Schell]
Generated description
Thomas Schell is the deceased father whose memory and mysterious key drive his son Oskar’s emotional and physical journey through New York City in Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Schell
Target entity description: Thomas Schell is the deceased father whose memory and mysterious key drive his son Oskar’s emotional and physical journey through New York City in Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close."
  • A. Thomas Eichhorst
    Thomas Eichhorst is a high-ranking Nazi-turned-vampiric servant of the Master in "The Strain," known as the longtime nemesis of Abraham Setrakian.
  • B. Erich Rothacker
    Erich Rothacker was a German philosopher and cultural theorist known for his work in philosophical anthropology and the humanities, and for supervising Jürgen Habermas’s doctoral studies.
  • C. Erwin Schoettle
    Erwin Schoettle was a German Social Democratic politician and resistance figure who became a prominent postwar Bundestag member and federal official.
  • D. Herbert Sattler
    Herbert Sattler is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake bearer of the surname Sattler.
  • E. Erich Schiffmann
    Erich Schiffmann is an American yoga master and author known for his influential teachings on intuitive, meditative yoga practice.
  • 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_69fd5bab66488190a465e40f1181506e completed May 8, 2026, 3:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd5d7a5ec48190ab50f6f7c93be24a completed May 8, 2026, 3:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd5e1ca1e081908441508d651ecc63 completed May 8, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:50 p.m.