Triple

T22784409
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Man's Fate E563925 entity
Predicate notableCharacter P1481 FINISHED
Object Ferral
Ferral is a key character in André Malraux’s novel "Man’s Fate," representing the disillusioned European colonial presence amid the political upheavals of 1920s Shanghai.
 E1553044 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: Ferral | Statement: [Man's Fate, notableCharacter, Ferral]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ferral
Context triple: [Man's Fate, notableCharacter, Ferral]
  • A. Ferentium
    Ferentium was an ancient Etruscan town in central Italy, near modern Viterbo, known from Roman times and as the birthplace of the emperor Otho.
  • B. Ferro
    Ferro is an alternative name for El Hierro, the smallest and westernmost of Spain’s Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
  • C. Feronia
    Feronia is an ancient Italic goddess associated with wilderness, fertility, and the liberation of slaves, venerated especially by the Sabines and other central Italian peoples.
  • D. Ferropolis
    Ferropolis is an open-air museum and event venue in Germany featuring massive decommissioned industrial mining machines displayed on a peninsula in a former open-cast mine.
  • E. Forgesia
    Forgesia is a small genus of flowering plants in the dogwood order Cornales, known for its shrubby species native to islands in the Indian Ocean.
  • 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: Ferral
Triple: [Man's Fate, notableCharacter, Ferral]
Generated description
Ferral is a key character in André Malraux’s novel "Man’s Fate," representing the disillusioned European colonial presence amid the political upheavals of 1920s Shanghai.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ferral
Target entity description: Ferral is a key character in André Malraux’s novel "Man’s Fate," representing the disillusioned European colonial presence amid the political upheavals of 1920s Shanghai.
  • A. Ferentium
    Ferentium was an ancient Etruscan town in central Italy, near modern Viterbo, known from Roman times and as the birthplace of the emperor Otho.
  • B. Ferro
    Ferro is an alternative name for El Hierro, the smallest and westernmost of Spain’s Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
  • C. Feronia
    Feronia is an ancient Italic goddess associated with wilderness, fertility, and the liberation of slaves, venerated especially by the Sabines and other central Italian peoples.
  • D. Ferropolis
    Ferropolis is an open-air museum and event venue in Germany featuring massive decommissioned industrial mining machines displayed on a peninsula in a former open-cast mine.
  • E. Forgesia
    Forgesia is a small genus of flowering plants in the dogwood order Cornales, known for its shrubby species native to islands in the Indian Ocean.
  • 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_69e2455500788190b4b33030461f3bbd completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f17c2f9ba48190996b4c3926728c03 completed April 29, 2026, 3:34 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b982b6a4c8190b1a5521aa149dc0b completed May 18, 2026, 10:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b98e33b78819084ac449dd47cc778 completed May 18, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b9996e05c8190ad2cb5704bb4c245 completed May 18, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:29 p.m.