Triple

T23073026
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Devil’s Elixirs E575245 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Medardus
Medardus is the tormented Capuchin monk and unreliable narrator whose descent into madness and sin drives the Gothic plot of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s novel "The Devil’s Elixirs."
E1569545 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: Medardus | Statement: [The Devil’s Elixirs, mainCharacter, Medardus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Medardus
Context triple: [The Devil’s Elixirs, mainCharacter, Medardus]
  • A. Malemort
    Malemort is a commune in the Corrèze department of south-central France, situated near the town of Brive-la-Gaillarde.
  • B. Mortus
    Mortus is the main villain of the 1995 Sega Genesis beat ’em up game Comix Zone, a demonic comic-book creator who brings his own drawings to life to battle the hero.
  • C. Melquíades
    Melquíades is the enigmatic gypsy in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," whose mystical knowledge and prophetic manuscripts profoundly shape the fate of the Buendía family.
  • D. Nekron
    Nekron is a powerful DC Comics supervillain and personification of death who often opposes the Green Lantern Corps and the heroes of the DC Universe.
  • E. Trompe-la-Mort
    Trompe-la-Mort is the underworld alias of Vautrin, a cunning and enigmatic criminal mastermind in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine.
  • 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: Medardus
Triple: [The Devil’s Elixirs, mainCharacter, Medardus]
Generated description
Medardus is the tormented Capuchin monk and unreliable narrator whose descent into madness and sin drives the Gothic plot of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s novel "The Devil’s Elixirs."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Medardus
Target entity description: Medardus is the tormented Capuchin monk and unreliable narrator whose descent into madness and sin drives the Gothic plot of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s novel "The Devil’s Elixirs."
  • A. Malemort
    Malemort is a commune in the Corrèze department of south-central France, situated near the town of Brive-la-Gaillarde.
  • B. Mortus
    Mortus is the main villain of the 1995 Sega Genesis beat ’em up game Comix Zone, a demonic comic-book creator who brings his own drawings to life to battle the hero.
  • C. Melquíades
    Melquíades is the enigmatic gypsy in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," whose mystical knowledge and prophetic manuscripts profoundly shape the fate of the Buendía family.
  • D. Nekron
    Nekron is a powerful DC Comics supervillain and personification of death who often opposes the Green Lantern Corps and the heroes of the DC Universe.
  • E. Trompe-la-Mort
    Trompe-la-Mort is the underworld alias of Vautrin, a cunning and enigmatic criminal mastermind in Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine.
  • 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.