Triple

T1280863
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Max Shulman E27320 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Feather Merchants
The Feather Merchants is a humorous novel by American writer Max Shulman, known for its satirical take on postwar American life and military bureaucracy.
E146159 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 Feather Merchants | Statement: [Max Shulman, notableWork, The Feather Merchants]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Feather Merchants
Context triple: [Max Shulman, notableWork, The Feather Merchants]
  • A. The Silk Spinners
    "The Silk Spinners" is an episode of the nature documentary series *Life in the Undergrowth* that explores the remarkable diversity, behavior, and engineering feats of silk-producing invertebrates such as spiders and caterpillars.
  • B. La Distribution des Aigles
    La Distribution des Aigles is the original French title of Jacques-Louis David’s neoclassical painting depicting Napoleon ceremonially presenting imperial eagles to his troops.
  • C. Old Fuss and Feathers
    Old Fuss and Feathers was the famous nickname of Winfield Scott, a prominent 19th-century U.S. Army general known for his strict discipline and elaborate military bearing.
  • D. The Eagle
    The Eagle is a 1925 silent adventure film starring Rudolph Valentino as a dashing Russian outlaw hero.
  • E. The Bird in a Cage
    The Bird in a Cage is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of courtly love and confinement.
  • 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 Feather Merchants
Triple: [Max Shulman, notableWork, The Feather Merchants]
Generated description
The Feather Merchants is a humorous novel by American writer Max Shulman, known for its satirical take on postwar American life and military bureaucracy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Feather Merchants
Target entity description: The Feather Merchants is a humorous novel by American writer Max Shulman, known for its satirical take on postwar American life and military bureaucracy.
  • A. The Silk Spinners
    "The Silk Spinners" is an episode of the nature documentary series *Life in the Undergrowth* that explores the remarkable diversity, behavior, and engineering feats of silk-producing invertebrates such as spiders and caterpillars.
  • B. La Distribution des Aigles
    La Distribution des Aigles is the original French title of Jacques-Louis David’s neoclassical painting depicting Napoleon ceremonially presenting imperial eagles to his troops.
  • C. Old Fuss and Feathers
    Old Fuss and Feathers was the famous nickname of Winfield Scott, a prominent 19th-century U.S. Army general known for his strict discipline and elaborate military bearing.
  • D. The Eagle
    The Eagle is a 1925 silent adventure film starring Rudolph Valentino as a dashing Russian outlaw hero.
  • E. The Bird in a Cage
    The Bird in a Cage is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of courtly love and confinement.
  • 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_69a496d3710c8190955dee8bc0dacb50 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c094eb4881909a33061339f91190 completed March 1, 2026, 10:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aca2fb746881909ac7a8dd672fc939 completed March 7, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aca3752a3c81908bd6d9744ad5f5a2 completed March 7, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aca3e44bf481908c5726adddc4b428 completed March 7, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.