Triple

T14804856
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject How to Be Alone E348004 entity
Predicate hasEssay P27484 FINISHED
Object First City
"First City" is an essay from Jonathan Franzen's collection "How to Be Alone," reflecting his characteristic blend of personal narrative and cultural criticism.
E1121274 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: First City | Statement: [How to Be Alone, hasEssay, First City]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: First City
Context triple: [How to Be Alone, hasEssay, First City]
  • A. St.George Bank
    St.George Bank is a major Australian retail and business bank known for its strong presence in New South Wales and Queensland and its focus on personal, small business, and commercial banking services.
  • B. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
    The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation is a major Hong Kong-based banking institution and the founding member of the HSBC Group, providing a wide range of financial services across Asia and globally.
  • C. South Bank Corporation
    South Bank Corporation is a Queensland Government statutory authority responsible for planning, managing, and developing Brisbane’s South Bank precinct as a major cultural, recreational, and commercial destination.
  • D. Sovereign Bank
    Sovereign Bank was a U.S.-based regional bank, particularly prominent in the Northeast, that offered retail and commercial banking services before being acquired by Santander.
  • E. Christon Bank
    Christon Bank is a small village in Northumberland, England, situated in the rural countryside of northern England.
  • 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: First City
Triple: [How to Be Alone, hasEssay, First City]
Generated description
"First City" is an essay from Jonathan Franzen's collection "How to Be Alone," reflecting his characteristic blend of personal narrative and cultural criticism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: First City
Target entity description: "First City" is an essay from Jonathan Franzen's collection "How to Be Alone," reflecting his characteristic blend of personal narrative and cultural criticism.
  • A. St.George Bank
    St.George Bank is a major Australian retail and business bank known for its strong presence in New South Wales and Queensland and its focus on personal, small business, and commercial banking services.
  • B. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
    The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation is a major Hong Kong-based banking institution and the founding member of the HSBC Group, providing a wide range of financial services across Asia and globally.
  • C. South Bank Corporation
    South Bank Corporation is a Queensland Government statutory authority responsible for planning, managing, and developing Brisbane’s South Bank precinct as a major cultural, recreational, and commercial destination.
  • D. Sovereign Bank
    Sovereign Bank was a U.S.-based regional bank, particularly prominent in the Northeast, that offered retail and commercial banking services before being acquired by Santander.
  • E. Christon Bank
    Christon Bank is a small village in Northumberland, England, situated in the rural countryside of northern England.
  • 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.