Triple

T12886076
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Girl with Curious Hair E308226 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object John Barth
John Barth is an American postmodern novelist and short story writer known for his metafictional style and influential works such as "Lost in the Funhouse" and "The Sot-Weed Factor."
E1008367 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: John Barth | Statement: [Girl with Curious Hair, influencedBy, John Barth]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Barth
Context triple: [Girl with Curious Hair, influencedBy, John Barth]
  • A. Reynolds Price
    Reynolds Price was an American novelist, poet, and essayist known for his richly detailed Southern fiction and long tenure as a professor at Duke University.
  • B. John Cheever
    John Cheever was a prominent 20th-century American writer best known for his incisive short stories and novels depicting the anxieties and contradictions of suburban middle-class life.
  • C. Reeves McCullers
    Reeves McCullers was the husband of American novelist Carson McCullers and a key figure in her tumultuous personal life.
  • D. John Updike
    John Updike was an American novelist, short-story writer, and critic best known for his incisive portrayals of middle-class life in works such as the "Rabbit" series.
  • E. William Gaddis
    William Gaddis was an American postmodern novelist known for his dense, allusive, and formally experimental works such as "The Recognitions" and "JR."
  • 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: John Barth
Triple: [Girl with Curious Hair, influencedBy, John Barth]
Generated description
John Barth is an American postmodern novelist and short story writer known for his metafictional style and influential works such as "Lost in the Funhouse" and "The Sot-Weed Factor."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Barth
Target entity description: John Barth is an American postmodern novelist and short story writer known for his metafictional style and influential works such as "Lost in the Funhouse" and "The Sot-Weed Factor."
  • A. Reynolds Price
    Reynolds Price was an American novelist, poet, and essayist known for his richly detailed Southern fiction and long tenure as a professor at Duke University.
  • B. John Cheever
    John Cheever was a prominent 20th-century American writer best known for his incisive short stories and novels depicting the anxieties and contradictions of suburban middle-class life.
  • C. Reeves McCullers
    Reeves McCullers was the husband of American novelist Carson McCullers and a key figure in her tumultuous personal life.
  • D. John Updike
    John Updike was an American novelist, short-story writer, and critic best known for his incisive portrayals of middle-class life in works such as the "Rabbit" series.
  • E. William Gaddis
    William Gaddis was an American postmodern novelist known for his dense, allusive, and formally experimental works such as "The Recognitions" and "JR."
  • 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_69f6a5576ae4819084914697b2e86d9f completed May 3, 2026, 1:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6a641d1988190b9af41c8c7ca599e completed May 3, 2026, 1:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6a7792f948190bb0b324bee0cd8ac completed May 3, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:39 p.m.