Triple

T12759602
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Courier’s Tragedy E304955 entity
Predicate firstEncounterContext P66528 FINISHED
Object Oedipa Maas watches a performance of the play
"Oedipa Maas watches a performance of the play" refers to the pivotal scene in Thomas Pynchon's novel *The Crying of Lot 49* in which the protagonist attends a staging of the fictional Jacobean revenge tragedy *The Courier’s Tragedy*, triggering her deeper involvement in the novel’s central conspiracy.
E1000286 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Oedipa Maas watches a performance of the play | Statement: [The Courier’s Tragedy, firstEncounterContext, Oedipa Maas watches a performance of the play]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oedipa Maas watches a performance of the play
Context triple: [The Courier’s Tragedy, firstEncounterContext, Oedipa Maas watches a performance of the play]
  • A. Oedipus at Palm Springs
    Oedipus at Palm Springs is a darkly comic, lesbian-themed stage adaptation of the Oedipus myth created by the feminist theater collective Five Lesbian Brothers.
  • B. Welcome to the Theatre
    "Welcome to the Theatre" is a musical number from the Broadway show "Applause," known for its theatrical flair and celebration of life onstage.
  • C. Remains to Be Seen (play)
    Remains to Be Seen is a mid-20th-century Broadway comedy play co-written by Howard Lindsay that blends murder mystery elements with lighthearted, sophisticated humor.
  • D. The Allegory of Theatre
    The Allegory of Theatre is a Baroque-era painting by Dutch artist Abraham Bloemaert that personifies the art of theatrical performance through symbolic and allegorical figures.
  • E. Still Life (play)
    Still Life is a stage play by American writer Alexander Dinelaris Jr. that explores themes of love, trauma, and emotional paralysis in contemporary New York City.
  • 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: Oedipa Maas watches a performance of the play
Triple: [The Courier’s Tragedy, firstEncounterContext, Oedipa Maas watches a performance of the play]
Generated description
"Oedipa Maas watches a performance of the play" refers to the pivotal scene in Thomas Pynchon's novel *The Crying of Lot 49* in which the protagonist attends a staging of the fictional Jacobean revenge tragedy *The Courier’s Tragedy*, triggering her deeper involvement in the novel’s central conspiracy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oedipa Maas watches a performance of the play
Target entity description: "Oedipa Maas watches a performance of the play" refers to the pivotal scene in Thomas Pynchon's novel *The Crying of Lot 49* in which the protagonist attends a staging of the fictional Jacobean revenge tragedy *The Courier’s Tragedy*, triggering her deeper involvement in the novel’s central conspiracy.
  • A. Oedipus at Palm Springs
    Oedipus at Palm Springs is a darkly comic, lesbian-themed stage adaptation of the Oedipus myth created by the feminist theater collective Five Lesbian Brothers.
  • B. Welcome to the Theatre
    "Welcome to the Theatre" is a musical number from the Broadway show "Applause," known for its theatrical flair and celebration of life onstage.
  • C. Remains to Be Seen (play)
    Remains to Be Seen is a mid-20th-century Broadway comedy play co-written by Howard Lindsay that blends murder mystery elements with lighthearted, sophisticated humor.
  • D. The Allegory of Theatre
    The Allegory of Theatre is a Baroque-era painting by Dutch artist Abraham Bloemaert that personifies the art of theatrical performance through symbolic and allegorical figures.
  • E. Still Life (play)
    Still Life is a stage play by American writer Alexander Dinelaris Jr. that explores themes of love, trauma, and emotional paralysis in contemporary New York City.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: firstEncounterContext
Context triple: [The Courier’s Tragedy, firstEncounterContext, Oedipa Maas watches a performance of the play]
  • A. firstContactContext chosen
    Indicates the circumstances or situation under which two entities first came into contact or interacted.
  • B. firstEncounteredBy
    Indicates that one entity is the person or agent who initially discovered, met, or came across the other entity for the first time.
  • C. firstDescriptionContext
    Indicates the primary or initial situational context in which a description of something is given.
  • D. firstMeets
    Indicates that one entity encounters or comes into contact with another entity for the first time.
  • E. firstSessionStart
    Indicates the point in time when an entity’s very first session or interaction begins.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69d7bdf1fcd081909ffb0e0d6fa3a07d completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96d8d3eb08190ae998df5cc6d9ba6 completed April 10, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f67c9c93248190b77c7d229da64ffb completed May 2, 2026, 10:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f67de172088190b055ace0fdcfd1fd completed May 2, 2026, 10:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f67ec570a881909c98471b701999f0 completed May 2, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69d96409739881909174ba005a986cb5 completed April 10, 2026, 8:56 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:28 p.m.