Triple

T11807936
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Roberts E280796 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Finding Everett Ruess
Finding Everett Ruess is a nonfiction book by David Roberts that investigates the mysterious 1934 disappearance of young artist and writer Everett Ruess in the American Southwest.
E947379 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: Finding Everett Ruess | Statement: [David Roberts, notableWork, Finding Everett Ruess]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Finding Everett Ruess
Context triple: [David Roberts, notableWork, Finding Everett Ruess]
  • A. Robert McClory
    Robert McClory was an American Republican congressman from Illinois known for his work on civil rights legislation and service on high-profile investigative committees in the 1970s.
  • B. Christopher McCandless
    Christopher McCandless was an American wanderer and idealist who abandoned his conventional life to travel across North America and ultimately live in the Alaskan wilderness, a journey later chronicled in the book and film "Into the Wild."
  • C. Percy Fawcett
    Percy Fawcett was a British explorer and archaeologist famed for his expeditions into the Amazon rainforest and his mysterious disappearance while searching for a lost ancient city.
  • D. Ralph Plaisted expedition
    The Ralph Plaisted expedition was a 1968 snowmobile journey that became widely recognized as the first confirmed over-ice surface expedition to reach the geographic North Pole.
  • E. Sereno Peck Fenn
    Sereno Peck Fenn was an American industrialist and philanthropist associated with the early leadership of the Sherwin-Williams Company and known for his significant contributions to education.
  • 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: Finding Everett Ruess
Triple: [David Roberts, notableWork, Finding Everett Ruess]
Generated description
Finding Everett Ruess is a nonfiction book by David Roberts that investigates the mysterious 1934 disappearance of young artist and writer Everett Ruess in the American Southwest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Finding Everett Ruess
Target entity description: Finding Everett Ruess is a nonfiction book by David Roberts that investigates the mysterious 1934 disappearance of young artist and writer Everett Ruess in the American Southwest.
  • A. Robert McClory
    Robert McClory was an American Republican congressman from Illinois known for his work on civil rights legislation and service on high-profile investigative committees in the 1970s.
  • B. Christopher McCandless
    Christopher McCandless was an American wanderer and idealist who abandoned his conventional life to travel across North America and ultimately live in the Alaskan wilderness, a journey later chronicled in the book and film "Into the Wild."
  • C. Percy Fawcett
    Percy Fawcett was a British explorer and archaeologist famed for his expeditions into the Amazon rainforest and his mysterious disappearance while searching for a lost ancient city.
  • D. Ralph Plaisted expedition
    The Ralph Plaisted expedition was a 1968 snowmobile journey that became widely recognized as the first confirmed over-ice surface expedition to reach the geographic North Pole.
  • E. Sereno Peck Fenn
    Sereno Peck Fenn was an American industrialist and philanthropist associated with the early leadership of the Sherwin-Williams Company and known for his significant contributions to education.
  • 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_69d6ab26aae88190b2489efcb2a24234 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a5c93a1881909b428bf3ed55bb57 completed April 10, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f131726ab08190ae777bee3ac6df43 completed April 28, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f141b1c50c819081a8055d951a49de completed April 28, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f14fcb63208190ad1185ad66314fa9 completed April 29, 2026, 12:24 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:42 p.m.