Triple

T17887470
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Per Degaton E447233 entity
Predicate associatedWith P37 FINISHED
Object Professor Malachi Zee
Professor Malachi Zee is a DC Comics scientist whose time-travel experiments are central to the origin and motivations of the villain Per Degaton.
E1293575 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: Professor Malachi Zee | Statement: [Per Degaton, associatedWith, Professor Malachi Zee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Professor Malachi Zee
Context triple: [Per Degaton, associatedWith, Professor Malachi Zee]
  • A. Professor Trevor Bruttenholm
    Professor Trevor Bruttenholm is a scholarly occult expert and founding member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense who discovers, raises, and mentors the demon hero Hellboy.
  • B. Professor Groeteschele
    Professor Groeteschele is a hardline, hawkish nuclear strategist in the Cold War thriller "Fail Safe," known for his chillingly rational advocacy of preemptive nuclear war.
  • C. Professor LeBlanc
    Professor LeBlanc is a recurring comedic character from the classic American radio and television series "The Jack Benny Program."
  • D. Professor Julius Kelp
    Professor Julius Kelp is the nerdy, socially awkward scientist portrayed by Jerry Lewis in the 1963 film "The Nutty Professor," whose transformative experiments and persona later inspired the character Sherman Klump.
  • E. Professor Unrat
    Professor Unrat is a satirical novel by Heinrich Mann that critiques bourgeois morality through the story of a repressed schoolteacher whose obsession with a cabaret singer leads to his downfall.
  • 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: Professor Malachi Zee
Triple: [Per Degaton, associatedWith, Professor Malachi Zee]
Generated description
Professor Malachi Zee is a DC Comics scientist whose time-travel experiments are central to the origin and motivations of the villain Per Degaton.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Professor Malachi Zee
Target entity description: Professor Malachi Zee is a DC Comics scientist whose time-travel experiments are central to the origin and motivations of the villain Per Degaton.
  • A. Professor Trevor Bruttenholm
    Professor Trevor Bruttenholm is a scholarly occult expert and founding member of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense who discovers, raises, and mentors the demon hero Hellboy.
  • B. Professor Groeteschele
    Professor Groeteschele is a hardline, hawkish nuclear strategist in the Cold War thriller "Fail Safe," known for his chillingly rational advocacy of preemptive nuclear war.
  • C. Professor LeBlanc
    Professor LeBlanc is a recurring comedic character from the classic American radio and television series "The Jack Benny Program."
  • D. Professor Julius Kelp
    Professor Julius Kelp is the nerdy, socially awkward scientist portrayed by Jerry Lewis in the 1963 film "The Nutty Professor," whose transformative experiments and persona later inspired the character Sherman Klump.
  • E. Professor Unrat
    Professor Unrat is a satirical novel by Heinrich Mann that critiques bourgeois morality through the story of a repressed schoolteacher whose obsession with a cabaret singer leads to his downfall.
  • 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_69d8b9f59bd48190a6fc925a855b8bac completed April 10, 2026, 8:51 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e49c14c4348190bb77712d9eae1d51 completed April 19, 2026, 9:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0313dd15d481909d0d539817d11340 completed May 12, 2026, 11:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a031485c3908190a8fe49068d45e910 completed May 12, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03151de8408190a4c8bc30f5606951 completed May 12, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:18 a.m.