Triple

T13618783
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William T. Vollmann E325393 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Rifles
The Rifles is a novel by William T. Vollmann that forms part of his ambitious Seven Dreams series exploring the history and consequences of European colonization in North America.
E1051767 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: The Rifles | Statement: [William T. Vollmann, notableWork, The Rifles]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Rifles
Context triple: [William T. Vollmann, notableWork, The Rifles]
  • A. The Rifles
    The Rifles is a large infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 2007, known for its light role, rifleman traditions, and deployments in modern conflicts such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • B. Rugged Brigade
    Rugged Brigade is the nickname of the U.S. Army’s 36th Engineer Brigade, a combat engineer formation known for providing construction, mobility, and support operations in diverse and challenging environments.
  • C. The Troops
    "The Troops" is a World War I poem by Siegfried Sassoon that bitterly portrays the physical and psychological devastation of soldiers returning from the front.
  • D. Mine Hill First Aid Squad
    Mine Hill First Aid Squad is a volunteer emergency medical services organization that provides ambulance and first aid response to residents of Mine Hill Township, New Jersey.
  • E. Eagle Squad
    Eagle Squad is a specialized rapid-response unit of the Islamabad Capital Territory Police focused on high-mobility patrolling and crime prevention.
  • 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: The Rifles
Triple: [William T. Vollmann, notableWork, The Rifles]
Generated description
The Rifles is a novel by William T. Vollmann that forms part of his ambitious Seven Dreams series exploring the history and consequences of European colonization in North America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Rifles
Target entity description: The Rifles is a novel by William T. Vollmann that forms part of his ambitious Seven Dreams series exploring the history and consequences of European colonization in North America.
  • A. The Rifles
    The Rifles is a large infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 2007, known for its light role, rifleman traditions, and deployments in modern conflicts such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • B. Rugged Brigade
    Rugged Brigade is the nickname of the U.S. Army’s 36th Engineer Brigade, a combat engineer formation known for providing construction, mobility, and support operations in diverse and challenging environments.
  • C. The Troops
    "The Troops" is a World War I poem by Siegfried Sassoon that bitterly portrays the physical and psychological devastation of soldiers returning from the front.
  • D. Mine Hill First Aid Squad
    Mine Hill First Aid Squad is a volunteer emergency medical services organization that provides ambulance and first aid response to residents of Mine Hill Township, New Jersey.
  • E. Eagle Squad
    Eagle Squad is a specialized rapid-response unit of the Islamabad Capital Territory Police focused on high-mobility patrolling and crime prevention.
  • 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_69d8076aae28819092cf636190ee5529 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbb0ae77e0819081e3b14642460dc6 completed April 12, 2026, 2:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f77fa0b81c819094e2fa209ef9857c completed May 3, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f783c24d088190ad53fa2d33a255c9 completed May 3, 2026, 5:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f78452e8bc8190a55f2be349fe718f completed May 3, 2026, 5:22 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:50 p.m.