Triple

T12885960
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again E308224 entity
Predicate containsEssay P27484 FINISHED
Object Shipping Out
"Shipping Out" is David Foster Wallace’s acclaimed essay that recounts his simultaneously humorous and unsettling experiences aboard a luxury cruise, critiquing consumerism and American leisure culture.
E1009691 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: Shipping Out | Statement: [A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, containsEssay, Shipping Out]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shipping Out
Context triple: [A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, containsEssay, Shipping Out]
  • A. Despatch
    Despatch is a small town in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, situated between Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha) and Uitenhage within the Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan area.
  • B. End Ship
    End Ships are rare floating structures found in Minecraft’s End dimension, typically containing valuable loot and the coveted Elytra.
  • C. Sendim
    Sendim is a town in northeastern Portugal known for its Mirandese-speaking community and distinct local culture.
  • D. Shipman Inquiry
    The Shipman Inquiry was a British public investigation that examined the crimes and systemic failures surrounding serial killer and general practitioner Dr. Harold Shipman.
  • E. Cargo
    Cargo is Rust’s official build and dependency management tool that streamlines compiling code, managing libraries, and distributing Rust packages.
  • 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: Shipping Out
Triple: [A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, containsEssay, Shipping Out]
Generated description
"Shipping Out" is David Foster Wallace’s acclaimed essay that recounts his simultaneously humorous and unsettling experiences aboard a luxury cruise, critiquing consumerism and American leisure culture.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shipping Out
Target entity description: "Shipping Out" is David Foster Wallace’s acclaimed essay that recounts his simultaneously humorous and unsettling experiences aboard a luxury cruise, critiquing consumerism and American leisure culture.
  • A. Despatch
    Despatch is a small town in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, situated between Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha) and Uitenhage within the Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan area.
  • B. End Ship
    End Ships are rare floating structures found in Minecraft’s End dimension, typically containing valuable loot and the coveted Elytra.
  • C. Sendim
    Sendim is a town in northeastern Portugal known for its Mirandese-speaking community and distinct local culture.
  • D. Shipman Inquiry
    The Shipman Inquiry was a British public investigation that examined the crimes and systemic failures surrounding serial killer and general practitioner Dr. Harold Shipman.
  • E. Cargo
    Cargo is Rust’s official build and dependency management tool that streamlines compiling code, managing libraries, and distributing Rust packages.
  • 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.