Triple

T20198880
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Flaubert's Parrot E493158 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Ellen Braithwaite
Ellen Braithwaite is a fictional character in Julian Barnes’s novel "Flaubert’s Parrot," involved in the narrator’s exploration of memory, obsession, and literary biography.
 E1417951 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: Ellen Braithwaite | Statement: [Flaubert's Parrot, hasCharacter, Ellen Braithwaite]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ellen Braithwaite
Context triple: [Flaubert's Parrot, hasCharacter, Ellen Braithwaite]
  • A. Edla Griffiths
    Edla Griffiths is the wife of Charles James Spencer-Churchill, the 12th Duke of Marlborough, and a member of the British aristocracy by marriage.
  • B. Ellen Fowler
    Ellen Fowler is a notable individual who shares the Fowler surname and has achieved sufficient recognition to be specifically cited among its bearers.
  • C. Mary Ellis
    Mary Ellis was a British actress known for her work on stage and screen in the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. Ellen Craig
    Ellen Craig is a fictional character from the television series "St. Elsewhere," notably portrayed by actress Bonnie Bartlett.
  • E. Eleanor Pittman
    Eleanor Pittman is known as the first wife of acclaimed American stage and film actor Jason Robards.
  • 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: Ellen Braithwaite
Triple: [Flaubert's Parrot, hasCharacter, Ellen Braithwaite]
Generated description
Ellen Braithwaite is a fictional character in Julian Barnes’s novel "Flaubert’s Parrot," involved in the narrator’s exploration of memory, obsession, and literary biography.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ellen Braithwaite
Target entity description: Ellen Braithwaite is a fictional character in Julian Barnes’s novel "Flaubert’s Parrot," involved in the narrator’s exploration of memory, obsession, and literary biography.
  • A. Edla Griffiths
    Edla Griffiths is the wife of Charles James Spencer-Churchill, the 12th Duke of Marlborough, and a member of the British aristocracy by marriage.
  • B. Ellen Fowler
    Ellen Fowler is a notable individual who shares the Fowler surname and has achieved sufficient recognition to be specifically cited among its bearers.
  • C. Mary Ellis
    Mary Ellis was a British actress known for her work on stage and screen in the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. Ellen Craig
    Ellen Craig is a fictional character from the television series "St. Elsewhere," notably portrayed by actress Bonnie Bartlett.
  • E. Eleanor Pittman
    Eleanor Pittman is known as the first wife of acclaimed American stage and film actor Jason Robards.
  • 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_6a0843e6e1308190a974910efb77ac15 completed May 16, 2026, 10:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08459c8d6c8190bef5f234cf1d7e03 completed May 16, 2026, 10:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a084608d69c81908a1fd6a311c88089 completed May 16, 2026, 10:25 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:37 p.m.