Triple

T13977492
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Anthony McCarten E336223 entity
Predicate wroteNovel P2831 FINISHED
Object In the Absence of Heroes
In the Absence of Heroes is a contemporary novel by New Zealand writer Anthony McCarten that explores family, loss, and identity in the digital age.
E1072211 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: In the Absence of Heroes | Statement: [Anthony McCarten, wroteNovel, In the Absence of Heroes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: In the Absence of Heroes
Context triple: [Anthony McCarten, wroteNovel, In the Absence of Heroes]
  • A. Biała Gwiazda
    Biała Gwiazda is the traditional Polish nickname of Wisła Kraków, one of Poland’s most historic and successful football clubs.
  • B. Dirty War
    The Dirty War was a period of state terrorism in Argentina (roughly 1976–1983) during which the military dictatorship carried out widespread kidnappings, torture, and forced disappearances of suspected political opponents.
  • C. A Survivor from Warsaw
    A Survivor from Warsaw is a dramatic cantata by Arnold Schoenberg that powerfully depicts a Holocaust survivor’s harrowing memories through spoken narration, chorus, and orchestra.
  • D. Kolyma Tales
    Kolyma Tales is a renowned collection of short stories by Varlam Shalamov that depicts the brutal realities of life and survival in the Soviet Gulag system.
  • E. Life and Fate
    Life and Fate is a monumental World War II novel by Vasily Grossman that portrays the Battle of Stalingrad and the clash between totalitarian regimes through the intertwined lives of a Soviet family.
  • 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: In the Absence of Heroes
Triple: [Anthony McCarten, wroteNovel, In the Absence of Heroes]
Generated description
In the Absence of Heroes is a contemporary novel by New Zealand writer Anthony McCarten that explores family, loss, and identity in the digital age.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: In the Absence of Heroes
Target entity description: In the Absence of Heroes is a contemporary novel by New Zealand writer Anthony McCarten that explores family, loss, and identity in the digital age.
  • A. Biała Gwiazda
    Biała Gwiazda is the traditional Polish nickname of Wisła Kraków, one of Poland’s most historic and successful football clubs.
  • B. Dirty War
    The Dirty War was a period of state terrorism in Argentina (roughly 1976–1983) during which the military dictatorship carried out widespread kidnappings, torture, and forced disappearances of suspected political opponents.
  • C. A Survivor from Warsaw
    A Survivor from Warsaw is a dramatic cantata by Arnold Schoenberg that powerfully depicts a Holocaust survivor’s harrowing memories through spoken narration, chorus, and orchestra.
  • D. Kolyma Tales
    Kolyma Tales is a renowned collection of short stories by Varlam Shalamov that depicts the brutal realities of life and survival in the Soviet Gulag system.
  • E. Life and Fate
    Life and Fate is a monumental World War II novel by Vasily Grossman that portrays the Battle of Stalingrad and the clash between totalitarian regimes through the intertwined lives of a Soviet family.
  • 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_69d81c639e808190a0e4b4f3d31c6a59 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de2e9fc7248190a9f26e253286ac3c completed April 14, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fba1e3cafc8190a1806a29b2e46ae9 completed May 6, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fba74a96b08190a08c51c231e49e5d completed May 6, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fba8585fb08190998d6a005dc0bd31 completed May 6, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:18 p.m.