Triple

T10808888
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John D. MacDonald E255041 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Drowner
The Drowner is a crime novel by John D. MacDonald that blends suspense and psychological tension in a story of murder and moral ambiguity.
E888099 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: The Drowner | Statement: [John D. MacDonald, notableWork, The Drowner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Drowner
Context triple: [John D. MacDonald, notableWork, The Drowner]
  • A. Found Drowned
    Found Drowned is a somber 19th-century painting by George Frederic Watts depicting the tragic aftermath of a woman's suicide, reflecting Victorian social concerns and moral themes.
  • B. Waters of Death
    Waters of Death is a perilous, mythic boundary of lethal waters in the Epic of Gilgamesh that separates the mortal world from the distant realm of the gods.
  • C. The Seacoast of Despair
    The Seacoast of Despair is an essay by Joan Didion that reflects her characteristically stark, introspective examination of place, disillusionment, and the emotional landscape of contemporary American life.
  • D. After the Dark
    After the Dark is a 2013 philosophical science-fiction thriller film that explores moral dilemmas through a series of apocalyptic thought experiments conducted by a high school philosophy class.
  • E. Rain on the Dead
    "Rain on the Dead" is a modern thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring his recurring character Sean Dillon in a high-stakes counterterrorism plot.
  • 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: The Drowner
Triple: [John D. MacDonald, notableWork, The Drowner]
Generated description
The Drowner is a crime novel by John D. MacDonald that blends suspense and psychological tension in a story of murder and moral ambiguity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Drowner
Target entity description: The Drowner is a crime novel by John D. MacDonald that blends suspense and psychological tension in a story of murder and moral ambiguity.
  • A. Found Drowned
    Found Drowned is a somber 19th-century painting by George Frederic Watts depicting the tragic aftermath of a woman's suicide, reflecting Victorian social concerns and moral themes.
  • B. Waters of Death
    Waters of Death is a perilous, mythic boundary of lethal waters in the Epic of Gilgamesh that separates the mortal world from the distant realm of the gods.
  • C. The Seacoast of Despair
    The Seacoast of Despair is an essay by Joan Didion that reflects her characteristically stark, introspective examination of place, disillusionment, and the emotional landscape of contemporary American life.
  • D. After the Dark
    After the Dark is a 2013 philosophical science-fiction thriller film that explores moral dilemmas through a series of apocalyptic thought experiments conducted by a high school philosophy class.
  • E. Rain on the Dead
    "Rain on the Dead" is a modern thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring his recurring character Sean Dillon in a high-stakes counterterrorism plot.
  • 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_69d6aa61c15c8190a1839550c56e75e1 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d733b60c6481909b043565a65f996d completed April 9, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69de8513fe0881909d6833c85aac03a8 completed April 14, 2026, 6:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69de8e6f3fac8190bcd1675978d6d6d7 completed April 14, 2026, 6:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69de8fa679cc81909cb51035e5403ce9 completed April 14, 2026, 7:04 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:18 p.m.