Triple

T12885398
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Western Lands E308211 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object William Seward Hall
William Seward Hall is a character in William S. Burroughs’ novel "The Western Lands," representing one of the many figures navigating its surreal, death-obsessed landscape.
E1009657 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: William Seward Hall | Statement: [The Western Lands, hasCharacter, William Seward Hall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Seward Hall
Context triple: [The Western Lands, hasCharacter, William Seward Hall]
  • A. William Hammond Hall
    William Hammond Hall was a 19th-century American civil engineer and landscape architect best known as the first State Engineer of California and the master planner of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
  • B. Estey Hall
    Estey Hall is a historic academic building at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, notable as one of the first structures in the United States built for the higher education of African American women.
  • C. Pulitzer Hall
    Pulitzer Hall is the main building that houses Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, serving as a central hub for journalism education and research.
  • D. William L. Harkness Hall
    William L. Harkness Hall is an academic building at Yale University, known for housing classrooms and lecture halls for the humanities and social sciences.
  • E. Sibley Hall
    Sibley Hall is a historic academic building on Cornell University’s Arts Quad, known for housing the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.
  • 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: William Seward Hall
Triple: [The Western Lands, hasCharacter, William Seward Hall]
Generated description
William Seward Hall is a character in William S. Burroughs’ novel "The Western Lands," representing one of the many figures navigating its surreal, death-obsessed landscape.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Seward Hall
Target entity description: William Seward Hall is a character in William S. Burroughs’ novel "The Western Lands," representing one of the many figures navigating its surreal, death-obsessed landscape.
  • A. William Hammond Hall
    William Hammond Hall was a 19th-century American civil engineer and landscape architect best known as the first State Engineer of California and the master planner of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
  • B. Estey Hall
    Estey Hall is a historic academic building at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, notable as one of the first structures in the United States built for the higher education of African American women.
  • C. Pulitzer Hall
    Pulitzer Hall is the main building that houses Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, serving as a central hub for journalism education and research.
  • D. William L. Harkness Hall
    William L. Harkness Hall is an academic building at Yale University, known for housing classrooms and lecture halls for the humanities and social sciences.
  • E. Sibley Hall
    Sibley Hall is a historic academic building on Cornell University’s Arts Quad, known for housing the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.
  • 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_69d7bdf7c1f0819098102569a8d8cbf5 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9714415c08190aa9944b494a3ddad completed April 10, 2026, 9:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6a5556fe081909ada9d491b21b17b completed May 3, 2026, 1:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6a616f6e4819096c9850434882548 completed May 3, 2026, 1:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6a716bb2c81909dccc5ddbf3c92b5 completed May 3, 2026, 1:38 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:39 p.m.