Triple

T10678155
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject At Play in the Fields of the Lord (film) E251671 entity
Predicate authorOfSourceWork P2353 FINISHED
Object Peter Matthiessen
Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, and co-founder of The Paris Review, renowned for his literary fiction and environmental writing.
E878762 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: Peter Matthiessen | Statement: [At Play in the Fields of the Lord (film), authorOfSourceWork, Peter Matthiessen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Peter Matthiessen
Context triple: [At Play in the Fields of the Lord (film), authorOfSourceWork, Peter Matthiessen]
  • A. James Michener
    James Michener was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his meticulously researched, epic historical novels such as "Tales of the South Pacific" and "Hawaii."
  • B. James Salter
    James Salter was an American novelist and short story writer acclaimed for his precise, elegant prose and works such as "A Sport and a Pastime" and "Light Years."
  • C. Annie Dillard
    Annie Dillard is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author and essayist best known for her meditative, nature-focused nonfiction such as "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek."
  • D. William T. Vollmann
    William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for his ambitious, genre-blurring works that often explore violence, marginalization, and the moral complexities of history and contemporary society.
  • E. John McPhee
    John McPhee is an American writer and pioneer of creative nonfiction, renowned for his deeply reported books and long-form essays often published in The New Yorker.
  • 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: Peter Matthiessen
Triple: [At Play in the Fields of the Lord (film), authorOfSourceWork, Peter Matthiessen]
Generated description
Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, and co-founder of The Paris Review, renowned for his literary fiction and environmental writing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Peter Matthiessen
Target entity description: Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, and co-founder of The Paris Review, renowned for his literary fiction and environmental writing.
  • A. James Michener
    James Michener was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his meticulously researched, epic historical novels such as "Tales of the South Pacific" and "Hawaii."
  • B. James Salter
    James Salter was an American novelist and short story writer acclaimed for his precise, elegant prose and works such as "A Sport and a Pastime" and "Light Years."
  • C. Annie Dillard
    Annie Dillard is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author and essayist best known for her meditative, nature-focused nonfiction such as "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek."
  • D. William T. Vollmann
    William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for his ambitious, genre-blurring works that often explore violence, marginalization, and the moral complexities of history and contemporary society.
  • E. John McPhee
    John McPhee is an American writer and pioneer of creative nonfiction, renowned for his deeply reported books and long-form essays often published in The New Yorker.
  • 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_69d6aa5bd7c08190a816e733b4045c23 completed April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d6fb9684e48190b2786823723cde6c completed April 9, 2026, 1:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d9887e974c81908c4943339ea9a93f completed April 10, 2026, 11:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d98aea391c81909ec64a29053c35c1 completed April 10, 2026, 11:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d98c013348819094bde38a057257b4 completed April 10, 2026, 11:47 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:10 p.m.