Triple

T14535785
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Steig E341039 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble is a classic 1969 children's picture book about a young donkey whose wish-granting pebble leads to unintended consequences, written and illustrated by William Steig.
E1104428 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: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble | Statement: [William Steig, notableWork, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Context triple: [William Steig, notableWork, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble]
  • A. Miss Sylvester’s School
    Miss Sylvester’s School was a private girls’ school in New York City known for educating young women from prominent families in the late 19th century.
  • B. "The Sieve and the Sand"
    "The Sieve and the Sand" is the second section of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, focusing on Montag’s growing inner conflict and desperate search for meaning in a society that bans books.
  • C. The Great Gazoo
    The Great Gazoo is a small, green, futuristic alien character from The Flintstones who often appears to Fred and Barney, causing comedic trouble with his advanced technology and magical-like powers.
  • D. Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
    Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories is a 1958 children's book by Dr. Seuss comprising three rhyming tales that use whimsical characters and absurd situations to explore themes of power, vanity, and personal responsibility.
  • E. The Squeaker
    The Squeaker is a crime novel by Edgar Wallace centered on a mysterious underworld informant who betrays criminals to the police.
  • 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: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Triple: [William Steig, notableWork, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble]
Generated description
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble is a classic 1969 children's picture book about a young donkey whose wish-granting pebble leads to unintended consequences, written and illustrated by William Steig.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Target entity description: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble is a classic 1969 children's picture book about a young donkey whose wish-granting pebble leads to unintended consequences, written and illustrated by William Steig.
  • A. Miss Sylvester’s School
    Miss Sylvester’s School was a private girls’ school in New York City known for educating young women from prominent families in the late 19th century.
  • B. "The Sieve and the Sand"
    "The Sieve and the Sand" is the second section of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, focusing on Montag’s growing inner conflict and desperate search for meaning in a society that bans books.
  • C. The Great Gazoo
    The Great Gazoo is a small, green, futuristic alien character from The Flintstones who often appears to Fred and Barney, causing comedic trouble with his advanced technology and magical-like powers.
  • D. Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories
    Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories is a 1958 children's book by Dr. Seuss comprising three rhyming tales that use whimsical characters and absurd situations to explore themes of power, vanity, and personal responsibility.
  • E. The Squeaker
    The Squeaker is a crime novel by Edgar Wallace centered on a mysterious underworld informant who betrays criminals to the police.
  • 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_69deb1b9d39881908c7a3a5b17d432af completed April 14, 2026, 9:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd7a5ae04881909e7eb766fca33066 completed May 8, 2026, 5:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd7b0160a08190ae181eb7acb3b6bc completed May 8, 2026, 5:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd7be778dc81908b0602bab944330a completed May 8, 2026, 6 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:22 a.m.