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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.