Triple

T11400281
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Epistolae obscurorum virorum E270089 entity
Predicate titleTranslation P38 FINISHED
Object Letters of Obscure Men
Letters of Obscure Men is a satirical collection of early 16th-century Latin letters that mocked scholastic theologians and supported the humanist reform movement in Germany.
E923712 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: Letters of Obscure Men | Statement: [Epistolae obscurorum virorum, titleTranslation, Letters of Obscure Men]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Letters of Obscure Men
Context triple: [Epistolae obscurorum virorum, titleTranslation, Letters of Obscure Men]
  • A. the Obscure
    The Obscure is a famous epithet of the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus, highlighting the enigmatic, paradoxical, and often difficult-to-interpret nature of his surviving fragments and ideas.
  • B. Letters to Dead Authors
    Letters to Dead Authors is a collection of humorous and imaginative literary essays by Andrew Lang, written as mock epistolary tributes to famous writers of the past.
  • C. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
    Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a 2009 independent film written and directed by John Krasinski, adapted from David Foster Wallace’s short story collection of the same name, exploring modern masculinity through a series of darkly comic interviews.
  • D. A Sheaf of Papers
    "A Sheaf of Papers" is a collection of essays and writings by American writer and wit Thomas Gold Appleton, reflecting his observations, humor, and literary style.
  • E. A Fool's Alphabet
    A Fool's Alphabet is a novel by Sebastian Faulks that tells the story of a photographer’s life through 26 alphabetically ordered, non-chronological chapters set in different locations.
  • 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: Letters of Obscure Men
Triple: [Epistolae obscurorum virorum, titleTranslation, Letters of Obscure Men]
Generated description
Letters of Obscure Men is a satirical collection of early 16th-century Latin letters that mocked scholastic theologians and supported the humanist reform movement in Germany.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Letters of Obscure Men
Target entity description: Letters of Obscure Men is a satirical collection of early 16th-century Latin letters that mocked scholastic theologians and supported the humanist reform movement in Germany.
  • A. the Obscure
    The Obscure is a famous epithet of the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus, highlighting the enigmatic, paradoxical, and often difficult-to-interpret nature of his surviving fragments and ideas.
  • B. Letters to Dead Authors
    Letters to Dead Authors is a collection of humorous and imaginative literary essays by Andrew Lang, written as mock epistolary tributes to famous writers of the past.
  • C. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
    Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a 2009 independent film written and directed by John Krasinski, adapted from David Foster Wallace’s short story collection of the same name, exploring modern masculinity through a series of darkly comic interviews.
  • D. A Sheaf of Papers
    "A Sheaf of Papers" is a collection of essays and writings by American writer and wit Thomas Gold Appleton, reflecting his observations, humor, and literary style.
  • E. A Fool's Alphabet
    A Fool's Alphabet is a novel by Sebastian Faulks that tells the story of a photographer’s life through 26 alphabetically ordered, non-chronological chapters set in different locations.
  • 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_69d6aacdbc6c8190af6dc3d5f5d22836 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8001adc188190ae45227856156412 completed April 9, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e58cf75ec08190a571e5178bcde274 completed April 20, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e59777b1208190a33a50da286535ee completed April 20, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e5a3cf9d388190944340af484b3a54 completed April 20, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:34 p.m.