Triple

T14804768
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Twenty-Seventh City E348002 entity
Predicate plotElement P2762 FINISHED
Object The Probst family becomes entangled in Jammu’s schemes
The Probst family becomes entangled in Jammu’s schemes is a key plot development in Jonathan Franzen’s novel "The Twenty-Seventh City," in which a prominent St. Louis family is drawn into the political and personal manipulations of the city’s ambitious new police chief.
E1121266 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: The Probst family becomes entangled in Jammu’s schemes | Statement: [The Twenty-Seventh City, plotElement, The Probst family becomes entangled in Jammu’s schemes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Probst family becomes entangled in Jammu’s schemes
Context triple: [The Twenty-Seventh City, plotElement, The Probst family becomes entangled in Jammu’s schemes]
  • A. The Family Business
    The Family Business is an American crime drama television series that follows the powerful Duncan family as they juggle their high-end exotic car dealership with their dangerous underworld operations.
  • B. Sins of a Family
    "Sins of a Family" is a 1965 folk-rock song by Barry McGuire that tells a dark, socially conscious story reflecting the era’s interest in gritty, narrative songwriting.
  • C. Verfall einer Familie
    "Verfall einer Familie" is the German subtitle of Thomas Mann's novel "Buddenbrooks," emphasizing its portrayal of the gradual decline of a wealthy merchant family.
  • D. The Hidden Family
    The Hidden Family is a science fiction novel by Charles Stross that blends parallel-universe intrigue, economic speculation, and political maneuvering as its heroine exploits travel between alternate Earths.
  • E. A Family Affair
    A Family Affair is a 1962 Broadway musical comedy with music by John Kander that marked the first Broadway directing credit of legendary producer-director Harold Prince.
  • 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: The Probst family becomes entangled in Jammu’s schemes
Triple: [The Twenty-Seventh City, plotElement, The Probst family becomes entangled in Jammu’s schemes]
Generated description
The Probst family becomes entangled in Jammu’s schemes is a key plot development in Jonathan Franzen’s novel "The Twenty-Seventh City," in which a prominent St. Louis family is drawn into the political and personal manipulations of the city’s ambitious new police chief.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Probst family becomes entangled in Jammu’s schemes
Target entity description: The Probst family becomes entangled in Jammu’s schemes is a key plot development in Jonathan Franzen’s novel "The Twenty-Seventh City," in which a prominent St. Louis family is drawn into the political and personal manipulations of the city’s ambitious new police chief.
  • A. The Family Business
    The Family Business is an American crime drama television series that follows the powerful Duncan family as they juggle their high-end exotic car dealership with their dangerous underworld operations.
  • B. Sins of a Family
    "Sins of a Family" is a 1965 folk-rock song by Barry McGuire that tells a dark, socially conscious story reflecting the era’s interest in gritty, narrative songwriting.
  • C. Verfall einer Familie
    "Verfall einer Familie" is the German subtitle of Thomas Mann's novel "Buddenbrooks," emphasizing its portrayal of the gradual decline of a wealthy merchant family.
  • D. The Hidden Family
    The Hidden Family is a science fiction novel by Charles Stross that blends parallel-universe intrigue, economic speculation, and political maneuvering as its heroine exploits travel between alternate Earths.
  • E. A Family Affair
    A Family Affair is a 1962 Broadway musical comedy with music by John Kander that marked the first Broadway directing credit of legendary producer-director Harold Prince.
  • 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_69d822ea8b7c819097dfadf3d45545e6 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69decf32666081908e84f985c47eb963 completed April 14, 2026, 11:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe24c6b3008190a0fac1dace40361a completed May 8, 2026, 6 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe2d9c08d0819094d3affc082f4f8a completed May 8, 2026, 6:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe2e0b3514819097f2d9d63cb6a143 completed May 8, 2026, 6:40 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:34 a.m.