Triple

T10949352
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alasdair Gray E258684 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Lanark: A Life in Four Books is a landmark Scottish novel by Alasdair Gray that blends dystopian fantasy with realist autobiography to explore alienation, politics, and art in modern society.
E895762 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: Lanark: A Life in Four Books | Statement: [Alasdair Gray, notableWork, Lanark: A Life in Four Books]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Context triple: [Alasdair Gray, notableWork, Lanark: A Life in Four Books]
  • A. Morvern Callar (novel)
    Morvern Callar (novel) is a 1995 debut work by Scottish author Alan Warner that follows a young woman in a remote Scottish town who makes a series of unsettling choices after discovering her boyfriend’s suicide.
  • B. The Lie of the Land
    "The Lie of the Land" is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, featuring the character Missy in a story about a dystopian Earth under alien control.
  • C. The Invention of Scotland
    The Invention of Scotland is a historical study by Hugh Trevor-Roper that examines how many of Scotland’s traditions and national myths were consciously constructed in the modern era.
  • D. A Life at the Centre
    A Life at the Centre is the political autobiography of British statesman Roy Jenkins, chronicling his long career at the heart of 20th-century British politics.
  • E. A Life of Contrasts
    A Life of Contrasts is the autobiography of Diana Mitford (later Diana Mosley), in which she recounts her aristocratic upbringing, controversial political associations, and social life in 20th-century Europe.
  • 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: Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Triple: [Alasdair Gray, notableWork, Lanark: A Life in Four Books]
Generated description
Lanark: A Life in Four Books is a landmark Scottish novel by Alasdair Gray that blends dystopian fantasy with realist autobiography to explore alienation, politics, and art in modern society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Target entity description: Lanark: A Life in Four Books is a landmark Scottish novel by Alasdair Gray that blends dystopian fantasy with realist autobiography to explore alienation, politics, and art in modern society.
  • A. Morvern Callar (novel)
    Morvern Callar (novel) is a 1995 debut work by Scottish author Alan Warner that follows a young woman in a remote Scottish town who makes a series of unsettling choices after discovering her boyfriend’s suicide.
  • B. The Lie of the Land
    "The Lie of the Land" is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, featuring the character Missy in a story about a dystopian Earth under alien control.
  • C. The Invention of Scotland
    The Invention of Scotland is a historical study by Hugh Trevor-Roper that examines how many of Scotland’s traditions and national myths were consciously constructed in the modern era.
  • D. A Life at the Centre
    A Life at the Centre is the political autobiography of British statesman Roy Jenkins, chronicling his long career at the heart of 20th-century British politics.
  • E. A Life of Contrasts
    A Life of Contrasts is the autobiography of Diana Mitford (later Diana Mosley), in which she recounts her aristocratic upbringing, controversial political associations, and social life in 20th-century Europe.
  • 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_69d6aa88500c819097d7032ca578e74f completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d770ec7028819084f5ce2035a128e4 completed April 9, 2026, 9:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e23c4a75688190894c83b8964509a6 completed April 17, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e24542b4f081909c97621f04da8ecc completed April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e248f7f96481909fa6e6cd07891566 completed April 17, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:23 p.m.