Triple
T1016401
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | W. H. Auden |
E21938
|
entity |
| Predicate | influenced |
P9
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
James Merrill
James Merrill was an American poet renowned for his formally intricate, witty, and emotionally nuanced verse, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning collection "Divine Comedies."
|
E154227
|
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: James Merrill | Statement: [W. H. Auden, influenced, James Merrill]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Merrill Context triple: [W. H. Auden, influenced, James Merrill]
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A.
Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell was a prominent 20th-century American poet and key figure in the Confessional poetry movement, known for his intensely personal and formally innovative verse.
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B.
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens was a major American modernist poet known for his philosophical meditations on imagination and reality in works such as "Harmonium" and "The Idea of Order at Key West."
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C.
Charles Lowell
Charles Lowell was a prominent early 19th-century American Unitarian minister and the father of poet and critic James Russell Lowell.
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D.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet known for his psychologically nuanced character studies and traditional verse forms, and one of the most honored poets of his era.
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E.
Hart Crane
Hart Crane was an American modernist poet renowned for his dense, visionary language and his ambitious long poem "The Bridge."
- 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: James Merrill Triple: [W. H. Auden, influenced, James Merrill]
Generated description
James Merrill was an American poet renowned for his formally intricate, witty, and emotionally nuanced verse, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning collection "Divine Comedies."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Merrill Target entity description: James Merrill was an American poet renowned for his formally intricate, witty, and emotionally nuanced verse, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning collection "Divine Comedies."
-
A.
Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell was a prominent 20th-century American poet and key figure in the Confessional poetry movement, known for his intensely personal and formally innovative verse.
-
B.
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens was a major American modernist poet known for his philosophical meditations on imagination and reality in works such as "Harmonium" and "The Idea of Order at Key West."
-
C.
Charles Lowell
Charles Lowell was a prominent early 19th-century American Unitarian minister and the father of poet and critic James Russell Lowell.
-
D.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet known for his psychologically nuanced character studies and traditional verse forms, and one of the most honored poets of his era.
-
E.
Hart Crane
Hart Crane was an American modernist poet renowned for his dense, visionary language and his ambitious long poem "The Bridge."
- 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_69a493c68e24819080ed0ee8bcfd5ce0 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4b7c1e9d08190baf7e81f3777168d |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:03 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69acc605c85881909adc6091bb9d9f8c |
completed | March 8, 2026, 12:42 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69acc71a3e808190aecbb57a64f39b6b |
completed | March 8, 2026, 12:47 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69acc88e4ec08190945b366524b83088 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 12:53 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.