Triple

T14529071
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hamlin Garland E340855 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object A Son of the Middle Border
A Son of the Middle Border is Hamlin Garland’s autobiographical novel chronicling his frontier childhood and life in the rural American Midwest during the late 19th century.
E1104252 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: A Son of the Middle Border | Statement: [Hamlin Garland, notableWork, A Son of the Middle Border]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Son of the Middle Border
Context triple: [Hamlin Garland, notableWork, A Son of the Middle Border]
  • A. The Wide Country
    The Wide Country is an early-1960s American Western television series that followed the adventures of two rodeo-riding brothers traveling the modern West.
  • B. Land of My Fathers
    Land of My Fathers is the English title of the Welsh national anthem, a patriotic song celebrating the heritage and landscape of Wales.
  • C. Lords of the Plains
    Lords of the Plains is a renowned epithet for the Comanche, a Native American people historically famed for their exceptional horsemanship, warrior culture, and dominance across the Southern Plains.
  • D. Across the Wide Missouri
    "Across the Wide Missouri" is an alternate title for the traditional American folk song "Shenandoah," a 19th-century river ballad associated with voyageurs and the Missouri River.
  • E. Heroes of the Frontier
    Heroes of the Frontier is a contemporary novel by Dave Eggers that follows a disgraced dentist and her two children on a soul-searching road trip through the Alaskan wilderness.
  • 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: A Son of the Middle Border
Triple: [Hamlin Garland, notableWork, A Son of the Middle Border]
Generated description
A Son of the Middle Border is Hamlin Garland’s autobiographical novel chronicling his frontier childhood and life in the rural American Midwest during the late 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Son of the Middle Border
Target entity description: A Son of the Middle Border is Hamlin Garland’s autobiographical novel chronicling his frontier childhood and life in the rural American Midwest during the late 19th century.
  • A. The Wide Country
    The Wide Country is an early-1960s American Western television series that followed the adventures of two rodeo-riding brothers traveling the modern West.
  • B. Land of My Fathers
    Land of My Fathers is the English title of the Welsh national anthem, a patriotic song celebrating the heritage and landscape of Wales.
  • C. Lords of the Plains
    Lords of the Plains is a renowned epithet for the Comanche, a Native American people historically famed for their exceptional horsemanship, warrior culture, and dominance across the Southern Plains.
  • D. Across the Wide Missouri
    "Across the Wide Missouri" is an alternate title for the traditional American folk song "Shenandoah," a 19th-century river ballad associated with voyageurs and the Missouri River.
  • E. Heroes of the Frontier
    Heroes of the Frontier is a contemporary novel by Dave Eggers that follows a disgraced dentist and her two children on a soul-searching road trip through the Alaskan wilderness.
  • 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_69d822dac79c8190a84a073f3cbaced5 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dea051bc608190ad4d516c5e7bca43 completed April 14, 2026, 8:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd7a547c408190a1a19e12aac1d5bd completed May 8, 2026, 5:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd7be2dc0c8190b8950a1f43ce13ab completed May 8, 2026, 6 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd7c6422e08190b149efdf58c3572a completed May 8, 2026, 6:02 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:22 a.m.