Triple

T23072990
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Sandman E575244 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Nathanael
Nathanael is the psychologically tormented protagonist of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s dark Romantic tale “The Sandman,” whose obsession with a sinister childhood figure leads to madness and tragedy.
 E1569540 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: Nathanael | Statement: [The Sandman, mainCharacter, Nathanael]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nathanael
Context triple: [The Sandman, mainCharacter, Nathanael]
  • A. Nathanael
    Nathanael is a New Testament figure in the Gospel of John, traditionally identified with the apostle Bartholomew and known for his initial skepticism about Jesus and subsequent confession of faith.
  • B. Yohanan
    Yohanan is a Hebrew given name, often rendered as "Yohanan" or "Yochanan," meaning "God is gracious" and historically borne by various Jewish religious and political figures.
  • C. Nicodemus
    Nicodemus is a New Testament figure, a Pharisee and member of the Jewish ruling council who visits Jesus by night and later assists in his burial.
  • D. Nicodemus
    Nicodemus is a wise, mystical rat leader in the animated film "The Secret of NIMH," guiding the protagonist with his knowledge and supernatural insight.
  • E. Estevão
    Estevão is the Portuguese given name equivalent to the Hungarian name István, commonly rendered in English as Stephen.
  • 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: Nathanael
Triple: [The Sandman, mainCharacter, Nathanael]
Generated description
Nathanael is the psychologically tormented protagonist of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s dark Romantic tale “The Sandman,” whose obsession with a sinister childhood figure leads to madness and tragedy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Nathanael
Target entity description: Nathanael is the psychologically tormented protagonist of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s dark Romantic tale “The Sandman,” whose obsession with a sinister childhood figure leads to madness and tragedy.
  • A. Nathanael
    Nathanael is a New Testament figure in the Gospel of John, traditionally identified with the apostle Bartholomew and known for his initial skepticism about Jesus and subsequent confession of faith.
  • B. Yohanan
    Yohanan is a Hebrew given name, often rendered as "Yohanan" or "Yochanan," meaning "God is gracious" and historically borne by various Jewish religious and political figures.
  • C. Nicodemus
    Nicodemus is a New Testament figure, a Pharisee and member of the Jewish ruling council who visits Jesus by night and later assists in his burial.
  • D. Nicodemus
    Nicodemus is a wise, mystical rat leader in the animated film "The Secret of NIMH," guiding the protagonist with his knowledge and supernatural insight.
  • E. Estevão
    Estevão is the Portuguese given name equivalent to the Hungarian name István, commonly rendered in English as Stephen.
  • 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_69e245be28d48190ad1348d5a73db37d completed April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18c60fa6c81908496f181c7d62033 completed April 29, 2026, 4:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c15a941748190b6c44e4a6e6256e2 completed May 19, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c1647dc2881909ee6c13b48b71b8d completed May 19, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c187f6eec81909cf9a62835d56391 completed May 19, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:56 p.m.