Triple
T13619338
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Kissing the Mask |
E325405
|
entity |
| Predicate | authorOfForewordOrPreface |
P94184
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William T. Vollmann |
E64475
|
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: William T. Vollmann | Statement: [Kissing the Mask, authorOfForewordOrPreface, William T. Vollmann]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William T. Vollmann Context triple: [Kissing the Mask, authorOfForewordOrPreface, William T. Vollmann]
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A.
William T. Vollmann
chosen
William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for his ambitious, genre-blurring works that often explore violence, marginalization, and the moral complexities of history and contemporary society.
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B.
T.C. Boyle
T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, stylistically inventive fiction and exploration of social and environmental themes.
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C.
William Faulks
William Faulks is known as the son of British novelist Sebastian Faulks.
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D.
Rick Moody
Rick Moody is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, psychologically rich explorations of contemporary suburban life, including the novel "The Ice Storm."
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E.
Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his novel "The Orphan Master's Son," which explores life in North Korea.
- 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: authorOfForewordOrPreface Context triple: [Kissing the Mask, authorOfForewordOrPreface, William T. Vollmann]
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A.
authorOfForewordOrIntro
chosen
Indicates that one entity is the person who wrote the foreword or introduction for a work associated with the other entity.
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B.
authorOfPreviousWork
Indicates that one entity is the creator or writer of an earlier work referenced or built upon by another entity.
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C.
authorTraditionallyAscribedTo
Indicates that authorship of a work is customarily or historically attributed to an entity, even if definitive proof of authorship may be uncertain or disputed.
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D.
authorOfCompanionWork
Indicates that one entity is the creator or writer of another entity that serves as a companion or supplementary work to a primary work.
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E.
authorAsCredited
Indicates the relationship between a work and the person or entity credited as its author, regardless of actual authorship.
- 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_69d8076aae28819092cf636190ee5529 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69dbbb9ee3f081909056dc1a92c40b7a |
completed | April 12, 2026, 3:34 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fcdeed4548819082038c5b88ccd212 |
completed | May 7, 2026, 6:50 p.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69dbae1b3ee481909bd43ded6227a3e5 |
completed | April 12, 2026, 2:37 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:50 p.m.