Triple

T12886258
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lannan Literary Award for Fiction E308230 entity
Predicate hasNotableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object William Gass
William Gass was an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic known for his innovative, philosophically rich fiction and influential essays on literature and language.
 E1012019 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 Gass | Statement: [Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, hasNotableRecipient, William Gass]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Gass
Context triple: [Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, hasNotableRecipient, William Gass]
  • A. William Gaddis
    William Gaddis was an American postmodern novelist known for his dense, allusive, and formally experimental works such as "The Recognitions" and "JR."
  • B. 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."
  • C. Thomas Wolff
    Thomas Wolff was an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
  • D. Gordon Lish
    Gordon Lish is an American editor, writer, and teacher best known for his influential and often radical editing of prominent authors such as Raymond Carver.
  • E. Donald Barthelme Sr.
    Donald Barthelme Sr. was an American modernist architect known for his influential public and institutional designs in Texas during the mid-20th century.
  • 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 Gass
Triple: [Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, hasNotableRecipient, William Gass]
Generated description
William Gass was an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic known for his innovative, philosophically rich fiction and influential essays on literature and language.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Gass
Target entity description: William Gass was an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic known for his innovative, philosophically rich fiction and influential essays on literature and language.
  • A. William Gaddis
    William Gaddis was an American postmodern novelist known for his dense, allusive, and formally experimental works such as "The Recognitions" and "JR."
  • B. 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."
  • C. Thomas Wolff
    Thomas Wolff was an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
  • D. Gordon Lish
    Gordon Lish is an American editor, writer, and teacher best known for his influential and often radical editing of prominent authors such as Raymond Carver.
  • E. Donald Barthelme Sr.
    Donald Barthelme Sr. was an American modernist architect known for his influential public and institutional designs in Texas during the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69f6af55623081909fd171129f439302 completed May 3, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b02e3b9881909387c1f70176a1bd completed May 3, 2026, 2:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6b121fdb881909a9a321794a3b8f1 completed May 3, 2026, 2:21 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:39 p.m.