Triple

T13822616
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays E332172 entity
Predicate hasEssay P27484 FINISHED
Object How to Be a Literary Critic
"How to Be a Literary Critic" is a humorous essay by Umberto Eco that satirically dissects the jargon, pretensions, and methods of academic literary criticism.
E1063306 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: How to Be a Literary Critic | Statement: [How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays, hasEssay, How to Be a Literary Critic]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: How to Be a Literary Critic
Context triple: [How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays, hasEssay, How to Be a Literary Critic]
  • A. The Craft of Criticism
    The Craft of Criticism is a collection of literary essays by English critic Desmond MacCarthy, showcasing his influential, lucid, and humane approach to evaluating literature.
  • B. Elements of Criticism
    Elements of Criticism is an influential 18th-century work of literary theory and aesthetics by Scottish judge and philosopher Henry Home, Lord Kames, exploring the principles of taste, beauty, and critical judgment.
  • C. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
    The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism is a widely used academic collection that brings together key texts and authors in literary and cultural theory from classical antiquity to the present.
  • D. Practical Criticism
    Practical Criticism is a foundational work of literary theory by I. A. Richards that helped establish close reading and text-centered analysis as core methods in modern criticism.
  • E. The Teaching of Literature
    The Teaching of Literature is an essay by Flannery O’Connor in which she reflects on the challenges and principles of teaching fiction and literary craft from a Catholic and realist perspective.
  • 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: How to Be a Literary Critic
Triple: [How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays, hasEssay, How to Be a Literary Critic]
Generated description
"How to Be a Literary Critic" is a humorous essay by Umberto Eco that satirically dissects the jargon, pretensions, and methods of academic literary criticism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: How to Be a Literary Critic
Target entity description: "How to Be a Literary Critic" is a humorous essay by Umberto Eco that satirically dissects the jargon, pretensions, and methods of academic literary criticism.
  • A. The Craft of Criticism
    The Craft of Criticism is a collection of literary essays by English critic Desmond MacCarthy, showcasing his influential, lucid, and humane approach to evaluating literature.
  • B. Elements of Criticism
    Elements of Criticism is an influential 18th-century work of literary theory and aesthetics by Scottish judge and philosopher Henry Home, Lord Kames, exploring the principles of taste, beauty, and critical judgment.
  • C. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
    The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism is a widely used academic collection that brings together key texts and authors in literary and cultural theory from classical antiquity to the present.
  • D. Practical Criticism
    Practical Criticism is a foundational work of literary theory by I. A. Richards that helped establish close reading and text-centered analysis as core methods in modern criticism.
  • E. The Teaching of Literature
    The Teaching of Literature is an essay by Flannery O’Connor in which she reflects on the challenges and principles of teaching fiction and literary craft from a Catholic and realist perspective.
  • 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_69d81c5ae7c88190b0dd41bdafeb5999 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de0284428081908043c55caeefb833 completed April 14, 2026, 9:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7b8e60e1c81908d51d723e85e0541 completed May 3, 2026, 9:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7b9d81f488190875e9b3f885556ab completed May 3, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7ba936c4481908757699ff22d3904 completed May 3, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:13 p.m.