Triple

T12875658
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject What We Talk About When We Talk About Love E307958 entity
Predicate containsShortStory P6847 FINISHED
Object I Could See the Smallest Things
"I Could See the Smallest Things" is a short story by Raymond Carver that quietly explores everyday tension and emotional distance within a troubled marriage.
 E1007641 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: I Could See the Smallest Things | Statement: [What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, containsShortStory, I Could See the Smallest Things]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: I Could See the Smallest Things
Context triple: [What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, containsShortStory, I Could See the Smallest Things]
  • A. All the Small Things
    "All the Small Things" is a 1999 pop-punk hit by Blink-182 known for its catchy melody, humorous music video, and mainstream breakthrough success.
  • B. All the Small Things
    All the Small Things is a British television drama series centered on the lives and relationships within a church choir community.
  • C. A Small Thing but My Own
    A Small Thing but My Own is a vibrant, emotionally charged abstract painting by British artist Howard Hodgkin, exemplifying his distinctive use of bold color and gestural brushwork.
  • D. These Things Too
    "These Things Too" is a comic collection from the satirical newspaper strip Pearls Before Swine by cartoonist Stephan Pastis.
  • E. I Can Almost See It
    "I Can Almost See It" is a song featured on Linda Ronstadt’s 1973 country-rock album "Don't Cry Now."
  • 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: I Could See the Smallest Things
Triple: [What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, containsShortStory, I Could See the Smallest Things]
Generated description
"I Could See the Smallest Things" is a short story by Raymond Carver that quietly explores everyday tension and emotional distance within a troubled marriage.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: I Could See the Smallest Things
Target entity description: "I Could See the Smallest Things" is a short story by Raymond Carver that quietly explores everyday tension and emotional distance within a troubled marriage.
  • A. All the Small Things
    "All the Small Things" is a 1999 pop-punk hit by Blink-182 known for its catchy melody, humorous music video, and mainstream breakthrough success.
  • B. All the Small Things
    All the Small Things is a British television drama series centered on the lives and relationships within a church choir community.
  • C. A Small Thing but My Own
    A Small Thing but My Own is a vibrant, emotionally charged abstract painting by British artist Howard Hodgkin, exemplifying his distinctive use of bold color and gestural brushwork.
  • D. These Things Too
    "These Things Too" is a comic collection from the satirical newspaper strip Pearls Before Swine by cartoonist Stephan Pastis.
  • E. I Can Almost See It
    "I Can Almost See It" is a song featured on Linda Ronstadt’s 1973 country-rock album "Don't Cry Now."
  • 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_69d7bdf69bc48190af6c2621f28ca351 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97dc53060819090a126f15428e411 completed April 10, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f69bb679f88190a1799b73c3f738b6 completed May 3, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f69fb238f08190a0c63d71bfbe4529 completed May 3, 2026, 1:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6a087120c81908644ed732eff4d99 completed May 3, 2026, 1:10 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:38 p.m.