Triple

T20198853
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Flaubert's Parrot E493158 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Geoffrey Braithwaite
Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired English doctor and the obsessive, self-questioning narrator of Julian Barnes’s novel "Flaubert’s Parrot," whose quest to understand Gustave Flaubert blurs the line between biography and personal reflection.
E1429752 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: Geoffrey Braithwaite | Statement: [Flaubert's Parrot, mainCharacter, Geoffrey Braithwaite]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Geoffrey Braithwaite
Context triple: [Flaubert's Parrot, mainCharacter, Geoffrey Braithwaite]
  • A. Geoffrey Butler
    Geoffrey Butler is the sardonic, impeccably proper English butler who serves and often wryly comments on the Banks family’s antics in the sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
  • B. Geoffrey Unsworth
    Geoffrey Unsworth was a renowned British cinematographer celebrated for his visually rich work on numerous classic films of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. William Stanley Braithwaite
    William Stanley Braithwaite was an influential early 20th-century African American poet, critic, and anthologist known for promoting Black literature and editing important poetry collections.
  • D. Geoffrey Gardner
    Geoffrey Gardner is a sports administrator best known for his leadership role as a vice president within World Athletics, the international governing body for track and field.
  • E. William Ruthven
    William Ruthven was an Australian soldier and politician best known as a recipient of the Victoria Cross for his bravery during World War I.
  • 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: Geoffrey Braithwaite
Triple: [Flaubert's Parrot, mainCharacter, Geoffrey Braithwaite]
Generated description
Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired English doctor and the obsessive, self-questioning narrator of Julian Barnes’s novel "Flaubert’s Parrot," whose quest to understand Gustave Flaubert blurs the line between biography and personal reflection.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Geoffrey Braithwaite
Target entity description: Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired English doctor and the obsessive, self-questioning narrator of Julian Barnes’s novel "Flaubert’s Parrot," whose quest to understand Gustave Flaubert blurs the line between biography and personal reflection.
  • A. Geoffrey Butler
    Geoffrey Butler is the sardonic, impeccably proper English butler who serves and often wryly comments on the Banks family’s antics in the sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
  • B. Geoffrey Unsworth
    Geoffrey Unsworth was a renowned British cinematographer celebrated for his visually rich work on numerous classic films of the 1960s and 1970s.
  • C. William Stanley Braithwaite
    William Stanley Braithwaite was an influential early 20th-century African American poet, critic, and anthologist known for promoting Black literature and editing important poetry collections.
  • D. Geoffrey Gardner
    Geoffrey Gardner is a sports administrator best known for his leadership role as a vice president within World Athletics, the international governing body for track and field.
  • E. William Ruthven
    William Ruthven was an Australian soldier and politician best known as a recipient of the Victoria Cross for his bravery during World War I.
  • 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_69da6269614c8190bb40475d9d477358 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e66d8c0eac81908ffdf72d71d2e5d2 completed April 20, 2026, 6:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a087b05ecf48190ac8f13affe061d36 completed May 16, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a088014c30c8190937586dc3f23862e completed May 16, 2026, 2:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08810e37c08190bd7e8b584204064c completed May 16, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:37 p.m.