Triple
T11566500
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) |
E274265
|
entity |
| Predicate | timePeriodCovered |
P302
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Vladimir Nabokov’s American years
Vladimir Nabokov’s American years were the period during which the Russian-born novelist lived and worked in the United States, producing major works such as "Lolita" and teaching literature at American universities.
|
E933800
|
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: Vladimir Nabokov’s American years | Statement: [Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), timePeriodCovered, Vladimir Nabokov’s American years]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vladimir Nabokov’s American years Context triple: [Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), timePeriodCovered, Vladimir Nabokov’s American years]
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A.
The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘Amerika’
The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘Amerika’ is a large-scale installation by German artist Martin Kippenberger that transforms Kafka’s unfinished novel into a sprawling, absurdist landscape of office desks and interview stations, reflecting on bureaucracy, failure, and the art world.
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B.
The Idea of Order at Key West
The Idea of Order at Key West is a celebrated modernist poem by Wallace Stevens that meditates on the relationship between imagination, perception, and the natural world through the figure of a woman singing by the sea.
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C.
Moscow Journal
Moscow Journal was a late 18th-century Russian literary and cultural periodical associated with writer and historian Nikolai Karamzin, known for promoting sentimentalism and European-influenced literary trends in Russia.
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D.
The Sense of the Past
The Sense of the Past is an unfinished time-travel novel by Henry James about a modern man who is mysteriously transported into early 19th-century London.
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E.
The Theory of the Novel
The Theory of the Novel is a seminal early 20th-century work of literary theory that analyzes the historical development and philosophical significance of the novel as a modern epic form.
- 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: Vladimir Nabokov’s American years Triple: [Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), timePeriodCovered, Vladimir Nabokov’s American years]
Generated description
Vladimir Nabokov’s American years were the period during which the Russian-born novelist lived and worked in the United States, producing major works such as "Lolita" and teaching literature at American universities.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vladimir Nabokov’s American years Target entity description: Vladimir Nabokov’s American years were the period during which the Russian-born novelist lived and worked in the United States, producing major works such as "Lolita" and teaching literature at American universities.
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A.
The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘Amerika’
The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘Amerika’ is a large-scale installation by German artist Martin Kippenberger that transforms Kafka’s unfinished novel into a sprawling, absurdist landscape of office desks and interview stations, reflecting on bureaucracy, failure, and the art world.
-
B.
The Idea of Order at Key West
The Idea of Order at Key West is a celebrated modernist poem by Wallace Stevens that meditates on the relationship between imagination, perception, and the natural world through the figure of a woman singing by the sea.
-
C.
Moscow Journal
Moscow Journal was a late 18th-century Russian literary and cultural periodical associated with writer and historian Nikolai Karamzin, known for promoting sentimentalism and European-influenced literary trends in Russia.
-
D.
The Sense of the Past
The Sense of the Past is an unfinished time-travel novel by Henry James about a modern man who is mysteriously transported into early 19th-century London.
-
E.
The Theory of the Novel
The Theory of the Novel is a seminal early 20th-century work of literary theory that analyzes the historical development and philosophical significance of the novel as a modern epic form.
- 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_69d6aae5ac3c81908d2b0a3a665665b2 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d88dd4305c8190ac5ff490b6b63e12 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 5:42 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e6e8b1a67481909a05105728acc358 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 3:02 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69e6ef951eb881909810b5923385c4c6 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 3:31 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69e6f94ac2d0819098a3024eaab908b5 |
completed | April 21, 2026, 4:12 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:37 p.m.