Triple

T19754319
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Perdido Street Station E474464 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin
Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin is an eccentric, brilliant scientist and thaumaturge in China Miéville’s Bas-Lag universe, best known as the protagonist of the novel "Perdido Street Station."
E1394722 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: Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin | Statement: [Perdido Street Station, mainCharacter, Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin
Context triple: [Perdido Street Station, mainCharacter, Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin]
  • A. Cecil Dreeme
    Cecil Dreeme is a 19th-century American novel by Theodore Winthrop, noted for its Gothic elements and early exploration of gender and identity themes.
  • B. Rothbart
    Rothbart is the dark sorcerer and primary antagonist in the ballet "Swan Lake," responsible for cursing Odette and driving the central conflict of the story.
  • C. Mr. Schneebly
    Mr. Schneebly is the false substitute-teacher persona adopted by Dewey Finn in the film "School of Rock" to pose as his roommate and secretly coach a class of students into forming a rock band.
  • D. Melachi the Nutcracker
    Melachi the Nutcracker is a character associated with the Group Home hip-hop collective, likely known within their creative or narrative universe.
  • E. Hermey the Elf
    Hermey the Elf is the misfit elf from the classic 1964 Rankin/Bass TV special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" who dreams of becoming a dentist instead of making toys.
  • 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: Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin
Triple: [Perdido Street Station, mainCharacter, Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin]
Generated description
Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin is an eccentric, brilliant scientist and thaumaturge in China Miéville’s Bas-Lag universe, best known as the protagonist of the novel "Perdido Street Station."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin
Target entity description: Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin is an eccentric, brilliant scientist and thaumaturge in China Miéville’s Bas-Lag universe, best known as the protagonist of the novel "Perdido Street Station."
  • A. Cecil Dreeme
    Cecil Dreeme is a 19th-century American novel by Theodore Winthrop, noted for its Gothic elements and early exploration of gender and identity themes.
  • B. Rothbart
    Rothbart is the dark sorcerer and primary antagonist in the ballet "Swan Lake," responsible for cursing Odette and driving the central conflict of the story.
  • C. Mr. Schneebly
    Mr. Schneebly is the false substitute-teacher persona adopted by Dewey Finn in the film "School of Rock" to pose as his roommate and secretly coach a class of students into forming a rock band.
  • D. Melachi the Nutcracker
    Melachi the Nutcracker is a character associated with the Group Home hip-hop collective, likely known within their creative or narrative universe.
  • E. Hermey the Elf
    Hermey the Elf is the misfit elf from the classic 1964 Rankin/Bass TV special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" who dreams of becoming a dentist instead of making toys.
  • 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_69d8e51940a0819087bd2996f98da668 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6529dada081909c5b4d65247c6032 completed April 20, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07bd67064081908839a408b0e746e1 completed May 16, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07bde28e848190aaa9c4a06b31bdb6 completed May 16, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07bed4c8d8819094fafce7eee69ee7 completed May 16, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:48 p.m.