Triple

T12943672
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Larry "Doc" Sportello E309702 entity
Predicate authorOfFictionalWork P106749 FINISHED
Object Thomas Pynchon E10498 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Thomas Pynchon | Statement: [Larry "Doc" Sportello, authorOfFictionalWork, Thomas Pynchon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Pynchon
Context triple: [Larry "Doc" Sportello, authorOfFictionalWork, Thomas Pynchon]
  • A. Thomas Pynchon chosen
    Thomas Pynchon is a reclusive American novelist known for his dense, complex, and postmodern works such as "Gravity’s Rainbow" and "The Crying of Lot 49."
  • B. Don DeLillo
    Don DeLillo is a critically acclaimed American novelist known for his postmodern works that explore themes of consumerism, technology, and the anxieties of contemporary life, including novels such as "White Noise" and "Underworld."
  • C. William Gaddis
    William Gaddis was an American postmodern novelist known for his dense, allusive, and formally experimental works such as "The Recognitions" and "JR."
  • D. Donald Barthelme
    Donald Barthelme was an American postmodern short story writer and novelist known for his experimental, fragmentary style and darkly comic, metafictional narratives.
  • E. E. L. Doctorow
    E. L. Doctorow was an acclaimed American novelist known for his innovative works of historical fiction, including "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate."
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target predicate: authorOfFictionalWork
Context triple: [Larry "Doc" Sportello, authorOfFictionalWork, Thomas Pynchon]
  • A. authorshipInFiction chosen
    Indicates that one entity is the creator or writer of a fictional work in which another entity appears or is represented.
  • B. authorOfNarrativeWithinWork
    Indicates that one entity is the creator or writer of a narrative that exists as a component or embedded story within a larger work.
  • C. literaryAuthor
    Indicates that one entity is the author or writer of a literary work represented by the other entity.
  • D. hasFictionalAuthor
    Indicates that one entity is the fictional or in-universe author of a work attributed to them.
  • E. authorOfInspiredWork
    Indicates that one entity is the creator or originator of a work that has inspired another work or entity.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (4 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_69d7bdfb57a88190836b743e2825feca completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97e59a4c88190907d05b8d57dae89 completed April 10, 2026, 10:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fba1af38248190a85d0fa3a26c3d08 completed May 6, 2026, 8:16 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69d97db69f548190a1a693bc0d6c191a completed April 10, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:43 p.m.