Triple

T22202475
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Heart of a Dog E548714 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Dr. Bormental
Dr. Bormental is a young, ambitious physician in Mikhail Bulgakov’s satirical novella "Heart of a Dog," serving as Professor Preobrazhensky’s loyal assistant and a key observer of the disastrous human-animal experiment.
E1524317 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: Dr. Bormental | Statement: [Heart of a Dog, mainCharacter, Dr. Bormental]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Bormental
Context triple: [Heart of a Dog, mainCharacter, Dr. Bormental]
  • A. Dr. Casares
    Dr. Casares is a compassionate, aging doctor and caretaker at a remote orphanage in Guillermo del Toro’s gothic horror film "The Devil’s Backbone."
  • B. Dr. Minoret
    Dr. Minoret is a central fictional physician in Honoré de Balzac’s "Scènes de la vie de province," notable for embodying the social and moral tensions of provincial French life in the 19th century.
  • C. Dr. Delmarre
    Dr. Delmarre is a key character in Isaac Asimov's science fiction novel "The Naked Sun," serving as a prominent roboticist whose death becomes the central mystery of the story.
  • D. Dr. Vertiz
    Dr. Vertiz is a Mexico City Metrobús station serving the Colonia Narvarte area.
  • E. Dr. Trescott
    Dr. Trescott is a central figure in Stephen Crane’s novella "The Monster," serving as the town doctor whose actions and moral choices drive the story’s exploration of prejudice and social ostracism.
  • 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: Dr. Bormental
Triple: [Heart of a Dog, mainCharacter, Dr. Bormental]
Generated description
Dr. Bormental is a young, ambitious physician in Mikhail Bulgakov’s satirical novella "Heart of a Dog," serving as Professor Preobrazhensky’s loyal assistant and a key observer of the disastrous human-animal experiment.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Bormental
Target entity description: Dr. Bormental is a young, ambitious physician in Mikhail Bulgakov’s satirical novella "Heart of a Dog," serving as Professor Preobrazhensky’s loyal assistant and a key observer of the disastrous human-animal experiment.
  • A. Dr. Casares
    Dr. Casares is a compassionate, aging doctor and caretaker at a remote orphanage in Guillermo del Toro’s gothic horror film "The Devil’s Backbone."
  • B. Dr. Minoret
    Dr. Minoret is a central fictional physician in Honoré de Balzac’s "Scènes de la vie de province," notable for embodying the social and moral tensions of provincial French life in the 19th century.
  • C. Dr. Delmarre
    Dr. Delmarre is a key character in Isaac Asimov's science fiction novel "The Naked Sun," serving as a prominent roboticist whose death becomes the central mystery of the story.
  • D. Dr. Vertiz
    Dr. Vertiz is a Mexico City Metrobús station serving the Colonia Narvarte area.
  • E. Dr. Trescott
    Dr. Trescott is a central figure in Stephen Crane’s novella "The Monster," serving as the town doctor whose actions and moral choices drive the story’s exploration of prejudice and social ostracism.
  • 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.