Triple

T10440622
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Committee on Social Thought E246156 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object Saul Bellow E113857 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Saul Bellow | Statement: [Committee on Social Thought, hasNotableAlumni, Saul Bellow]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Saul Bellow
Context triple: [Committee on Social Thought, hasNotableAlumni, Saul Bellow]
  • A. Saul Bellow chosen
    Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born American novelist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his richly intellectual, character-driven explorations of modern urban life and the search for meaning.
  • B. Bernard Malamud
    Bernard Malamud was a prominent 20th-century American novelist and short story writer whose works, often blending realism and allegory, explore themes of Jewish identity, suffering, and moral responsibility.
  • C. John Updike
    John Updike was an American novelist, short-story writer, and critic best known for his incisive portrayals of middle-class life in works such as the "Rabbit" series.
  • D. Philip Roth
    Philip Roth was a prominent American novelist known for his incisive, often controversial explorations of Jewish-American identity, sexuality, and modern life in works such as "Portnoy’s Complaint" and the "Zuckerman" series.
  • E. Janis Freedman Bellow
    Janis Freedman Bellow is an American scholar and writer best known as the widow and literary executor of Nobel Prize–winning novelist Saul Bellow.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d381bf3dc08190bf35a2643e4e8f22 elicitation completed
NER batch_69d4fb9df6fc8190830f405ef955d64b ner completed
NED1 batch_69d89fa5b3b081909af7de1745372add ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:15 p.m.