Triple

T22202474
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Heart of a Dog E548714 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Professor Preobrazhensky
Professor Preobrazhensky is a brilliant but morally ambiguous Moscow surgeon whose radical experiment transforming a stray dog into a human drives the satirical plot of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novella "Heart of a Dog."
E1524316 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 Preobrazhensky | Statement: [Heart of a Dog, mainCharacter, Professor Preobrazhensky]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Professor Preobrazhensky
Context triple: [Heart of a Dog, mainCharacter, Professor Preobrazhensky]
  • A. Professor Serebryakov
    Professor Serebryakov is an aging, self-absorbed academic whose arrival at his rural estate disrupts the lives and exposes the frustrations of the other characters in Anton Chekhov’s play "Uncle Vanya."
  • B. Professor Petrovsky
    Professor Petrovsky is a minor supporting character in the 1998 poker film "Rounders," known for his role as an academic figure connected to the protagonist’s law school world.
  • C. Professor Kerensky
    Professor Kerensky is a fictional scientist character from the Doctor Who serial "City of Death," known for his time-experiment research in Paris.
  • D. Malyuta Skuratov
    Malyuta Skuratov was a notorious 16th-century Russian oprichnik and close enforcer of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, infamous for his role in brutal repressions.
  • E. Professor Nikitin
    Professor Nikitin is a character in the 1947 Soviet film "Spring," portrayed as an academic whose role intertwines with the movie’s themes of art, science, and mistaken identity.
  • 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 Preobrazhensky
Triple: [Heart of a Dog, mainCharacter, Professor Preobrazhensky]
Generated description
Professor Preobrazhensky is a brilliant but morally ambiguous Moscow surgeon whose radical experiment transforming a stray dog into a human drives the satirical plot of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novella "Heart of a Dog."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Professor Preobrazhensky
Target entity description: Professor Preobrazhensky is a brilliant but morally ambiguous Moscow surgeon whose radical experiment transforming a stray dog into a human drives the satirical plot of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novella "Heart of a Dog."
  • A. Professor Serebryakov
    Professor Serebryakov is an aging, self-absorbed academic whose arrival at his rural estate disrupts the lives and exposes the frustrations of the other characters in Anton Chekhov’s play "Uncle Vanya."
  • B. Professor Petrovsky
    Professor Petrovsky is a minor supporting character in the 1998 poker film "Rounders," known for his role as an academic figure connected to the protagonist’s law school world.
  • C. Professor Kerensky
    Professor Kerensky is a fictional scientist character from the Doctor Who serial "City of Death," known for his time-experiment research in Paris.
  • D. Malyuta Skuratov
    Malyuta Skuratov was a notorious 16th-century Russian oprichnik and close enforcer of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, infamous for his role in brutal repressions.
  • E. Professor Nikitin
    Professor Nikitin is a character in the 1947 Soviet film "Spring," portrayed as an academic whose role intertwines with the movie’s themes of art, science, and mistaken identity.
  • 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_69e11e3ecc7c8190b5f94cd8f42e9d37 completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f12b24c6fc81909e6ae62564846bd1 completed April 28, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0aa616fce88190b9e403af631a7258 completed May 18, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0aa6d1f634819082d1edd70217b70c completed May 18, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0aa7879e048190bd4b8e7f7cfbaec4 completed May 18, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:36 p.m.