Triple

T11995191
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tobias Wolff E285510 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Barracks Thief
The Barracks Thief is a novella by American author Tobias Wolff that follows three paratrooper trainees during the Vietnam War era, exploring themes of fear, betrayal, and moral ambiguity.
E958742 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: The Barracks Thief | Statement: [Tobias Wolff, notableWork, The Barracks Thief]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Barracks Thief
Context triple: [Tobias Wolff, notableWork, The Barracks Thief]
  • A. The Good Thief
    The Good Thief is a 2002 crime drama film directed by Neil Jordan that follows an aging gambler and thief attempting one last elaborate heist on the French Riviera.
  • B. The Robbers
    The Robbers is a play by Friedrich Schiller that explores themes of freedom, justice, and moral corruption through the story of two estranged brothers who become leader and victim of a band of outlaws.
  • C. Honest Thief
    Honest Thief is a 2020 action-thriller film starring Liam Neeson as a reformed bank robber who becomes the target of corrupt FBI agents after trying to turn himself in.
  • D. The Thief and the Dogs
    The Thief and the Dogs is a 1961 existential and psychological novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that follows a recently released thief seeking revenge in post-revolutionary Cairo.
  • E. Once a Thief
    Once a Thief is a 1991 Hong Kong action-comedy film blending heist capers with stylized gunplay and humor.
  • 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: The Barracks Thief
Triple: [Tobias Wolff, notableWork, The Barracks Thief]
Generated description
The Barracks Thief is a novella by American author Tobias Wolff that follows three paratrooper trainees during the Vietnam War era, exploring themes of fear, betrayal, and moral ambiguity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Barracks Thief
Target entity description: The Barracks Thief is a novella by American author Tobias Wolff that follows three paratrooper trainees during the Vietnam War era, exploring themes of fear, betrayal, and moral ambiguity.
  • A. The Good Thief
    The Good Thief is a 2002 crime drama film directed by Neil Jordan that follows an aging gambler and thief attempting one last elaborate heist on the French Riviera.
  • B. The Robbers
    The Robbers is a play by Friedrich Schiller that explores themes of freedom, justice, and moral corruption through the story of two estranged brothers who become leader and victim of a band of outlaws.
  • C. Honest Thief
    Honest Thief is a 2020 action-thriller film starring Liam Neeson as a reformed bank robber who becomes the target of corrupt FBI agents after trying to turn himself in.
  • D. The Thief and the Dogs
    The Thief and the Dogs is a 1961 existential and psychological novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that follows a recently released thief seeking revenge in post-revolutionary Cairo.
  • E. Once a Thief
    Once a Thief is a 1991 Hong Kong action-comedy film blending heist capers with stylized gunplay and humor.
  • 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_69d6ab44a77c8190a652f4b27164e4ef completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d903b211688190bfe6dd15c3f96d2f completed April 10, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f47273e1088190b899071baff1375a completed May 1, 2026, 9:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f47b7d4ef081908f7f87d90c00d9ed completed May 1, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f47de8c9e48190af01918c9cd94c7d completed May 1, 2026, 10:18 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.