Triple

T13194051
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Seward Burroughs I E314065 entity
Predicate notableRelative P367 FINISHED
Object William S. Burroughs Jr. E63899 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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 S. Burroughs Jr. | Statement: [William Seward Burroughs I, notableRelative, William S. Burroughs Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William S. Burroughs Jr.
Context triple: [William Seward Burroughs I, notableRelative, William S. Burroughs Jr.]
  • A. William S. Burroughs chosen
    William S. Burroughs was an influential American novelist and essayist known for his experimental, transgressive works such as "Naked Lunch" and his central role in the development of postwar countercultural literature.
  • B. William Seward Burroughs I
    William Seward Burroughs I was an American inventor and businessman best known for developing and patenting an early adding machine and founding the company that became Burroughs Corporation.
  • C. Hunter S. Thompson
    Hunter S. Thompson was an American journalist and author best known for pioneering gonzo journalism and writing "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."
  • D. John Allen Cassady
    John Allen Cassady is an American writer and musician best known as the son of Beat Generation icon Neal Cassady and for his involvement in preserving and promoting Beat and countercultural history.
  • E. Alexander Trocchi
    Alexander Trocchi was a Scottish novelist and avant-garde writer associated with the Beat Generation and various radical artistic movements in mid-20th-century Europe.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d806ae1e08819090d95bfe1538cc17 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98c6158e4819082c8ad75b4dfdd90 completed April 10, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7c0d3cf3881908fdfc56bd31e5fe2 completed May 3, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:16 p.m.