Triple

T13619487
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes E325409 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object The Poison Shirt
The Poison Shirt is a story by William T. Vollmann included in his multi-volume fictional cycle Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes, exploring themes of history, violence, and cultural collision in North America.
E1051789 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 Poison Shirt | Statement: [Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes, hasPart, The Poison Shirt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Poison Shirt
Context triple: [Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes, hasPart, The Poison Shirt]
  • A. Big Poison
    Big Poison was the nickname of Paul Waner, a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball outfielder renowned for his exceptional hitting with the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • B. Another Man's Poison
    Another Man's Poison is a 1951 British film noir thriller starring Bette Davis, known for its dark psychological drama and twist-filled plot.
  • C. The Poisoners
    The Poisoners is a spy novel by Donald Hamilton featuring his hard-edged government agent Matt Helm in a tense, morally ambiguous Cold War-era mission.
  • D. Poisoner in Chief
    Poisoner in Chief is a nonfiction book by Stephen Kinzer that chronicles CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb’s central role in the agency’s secret mind-control experiments and MK-Ultra program during the Cold War.
  • E. The Black Stuff
    The Black Stuff is a British television play by Alan Bleasdale that introduced the characters and themes later expanded in the acclaimed series Boys from the Blackstuff, focusing on working-class life and unemployment in Liverpool.
  • 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 Poison Shirt
Triple: [Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes, hasPart, The Poison Shirt]
Generated description
The Poison Shirt is a story by William T. Vollmann included in his multi-volume fictional cycle Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes, exploring themes of history, violence, and cultural collision in North America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Poison Shirt
Target entity description: The Poison Shirt is a story by William T. Vollmann included in his multi-volume fictional cycle Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes, exploring themes of history, violence, and cultural collision in North America.
  • A. Big Poison
    Big Poison was the nickname of Paul Waner, a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball outfielder renowned for his exceptional hitting with the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • B. Another Man's Poison
    Another Man's Poison is a 1951 British film noir thriller starring Bette Davis, known for its dark psychological drama and twist-filled plot.
  • C. The Poisoners
    The Poisoners is a spy novel by Donald Hamilton featuring his hard-edged government agent Matt Helm in a tense, morally ambiguous Cold War-era mission.
  • D. Poisoner in Chief
    Poisoner in Chief is a nonfiction book by Stephen Kinzer that chronicles CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb’s central role in the agency’s secret mind-control experiments and MK-Ultra program during the Cold War.
  • E. The Black Stuff
    The Black Stuff is a British television play by Alan Bleasdale that introduced the characters and themes later expanded in the acclaimed series Boys from the Blackstuff, focusing on working-class life and unemployment in Liverpool.
  • 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_69dbb0b0c9008190836242da2d6a8cbe 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.