Triple

T10916395
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Patrick McCabe E257833 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Butcher Boy
The Butcher Boy is a darkly comic Irish novel by Patrick McCabe that follows the disturbing psychological unraveling of a troubled boy in a small 1960s Irish town.
E894345 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 Butcher Boy | Statement: [Patrick McCabe, notableWork, The Butcher Boy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Butcher Boy
Context triple: [Patrick McCabe, notableWork, The Butcher Boy]
  • A. Molloy
    Molloy is a modernist novel by Samuel Beckett that follows two interlinked, often absurd and introspective narratives exploring identity, language, and existential uncertainty.
  • B. Joyce Country
    Joyce Country is a scenic, mountainous region in western Ireland known for its rugged landscapes, lakes, and traditional Irish culture.
  • C. Angela’s Ashes
    Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir recounting his impoverished Irish Catholic childhood in Limerick during the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. The Violent Bear It Away
    The Violent Bear It Away is a Southern Gothic novel by Flannery O'Connor that explores themes of faith, prophecy, and destiny through the story of a young boy grappling with his religious calling in the rural American South.
  • E. Béal an Átha
    Béal an Átha is the Irish-language name for the town of Ballina in County Mayo, Ireland.
  • 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 Butcher Boy
Triple: [Patrick McCabe, notableWork, The Butcher Boy]
Generated description
The Butcher Boy is a darkly comic Irish novel by Patrick McCabe that follows the disturbing psychological unraveling of a troubled boy in a small 1960s Irish town.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Butcher Boy
Target entity description: The Butcher Boy is a darkly comic Irish novel by Patrick McCabe that follows the disturbing psychological unraveling of a troubled boy in a small 1960s Irish town.
  • A. Molloy
    Molloy is a modernist novel by Samuel Beckett that follows two interlinked, often absurd and introspective narratives exploring identity, language, and existential uncertainty.
  • B. Joyce Country
    Joyce Country is a scenic, mountainous region in western Ireland known for its rugged landscapes, lakes, and traditional Irish culture.
  • C. Angela’s Ashes
    Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir recounting his impoverished Irish Catholic childhood in Limerick during the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. The Violent Bear It Away
    The Violent Bear It Away is a Southern Gothic novel by Flannery O'Connor that explores themes of faith, prophecy, and destiny through the story of a young boy grappling with his religious calling in the rural American South.
  • E. Béal an Átha
    Béal an Átha is the Irish-language name for the town of Ballina in County Mayo, Ireland.
  • 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_69d6aa864ed88190818280ab6791d065 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7707deb608190903b1066e19600d3 completed April 9, 2026, 9:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e216fca9f48190b02e8c13b8f428bf completed April 17, 2026, 11:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e21d8952c881908a952de83754e049 completed April 17, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e2247fbd348190bb0d221923dac892 completed April 17, 2026, 12:16 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:22 p.m.