Triple

T14704890
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McClure's Magazine E345401 entity
Predicate hasContributor P4244 FINISHED
Object Willa Cather E17189 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Willa Cather | Statement: [McClure's Magazine, hasContributor, Willa Cather]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willa Cather
Context triple: [McClure's Magazine, hasContributor, Willa Cather]
  • A. Willa Cather chosen
    Willa Cather was a prominent American novelist best known for her evocative depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in works such as "My Ántonia" and "O Pioneers!".
  • B. Zona Gale
    Zona Gale was an American author and playwright, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and play "Miss Lulu Bett" and for being the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
  • C. Katherine Anne Porter
    Katherine Anne Porter was an American journalist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for her short stories and the novel "Ship of Fools."
  • D. Sanora Babb
    Sanora Babb was an American writer and journalist known for her Dust Bowl-era fiction and memoirs depicting the lives of migrant farmworkers.
  • E. Sherwood Anderson
    Sherwood Anderson was an American modernist writer best known for his influential short story cycle "Winesburg, Ohio," which deeply explored small-town life and psychological realism.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d822e4a8c08190a155df736bb7bc13 elicitation completed
NER batch_69deb6086c608190a66c64e23a3e002f ner completed
NED1 batch_69fdf087ce8c819081a7186df67bcf1f ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:28 a.m.