Triple

T1495150
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walter Benjamin E29668 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag was an American writer, cultural critic, and public intellectual known for her influential essays on photography, illness, art, and politics.
E170479 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: Susan Sontag | Statement: [Walter Benjamin, influenced, Susan Sontag]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Susan Sontag
Context triple: [Walter Benjamin, influenced, Susan Sontag]
  • A. Susan Buck-Morss
    Susan Buck-Morss is an American philosopher and critical theorist known for her work on Frankfurt School thought, visual culture, and global political modernity.
  • B. Nan A. Talese
    Nan A. Talese is an American literary editor and publisher renowned for her eponymous imprint at Doubleday, which has published numerous acclaimed works of contemporary fiction and nonfiction.
  • C. Norman Mailer
    Norman Mailer was a prominent American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for works like "The Naked and the Dead" and for co-founding The Village Voice.
  • D. Ada Louise Huxtable
    Ada Louise Huxtable was a pioneering American architecture critic and writer renowned for shaping public discourse on urban design and the built environment.
  • E. Inge Morath
    Inge Morath was an Austrian-born photographer renowned for her humanistic, often intimate photojournalism and long association with Magnum Photos.
  • 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: Susan Sontag
Triple: [Walter Benjamin, influenced, Susan Sontag]
Generated description
Susan Sontag was an American writer, cultural critic, and public intellectual known for her influential essays on photography, illness, art, and politics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Susan Sontag
Target entity description: Susan Sontag was an American writer, cultural critic, and public intellectual known for her influential essays on photography, illness, art, and politics.
  • A. Susan Buck-Morss
    Susan Buck-Morss is an American philosopher and critical theorist known for her work on Frankfurt School thought, visual culture, and global political modernity.
  • B. Nan A. Talese
    Nan A. Talese is an American literary editor and publisher renowned for her eponymous imprint at Doubleday, which has published numerous acclaimed works of contemporary fiction and nonfiction.
  • C. Norman Mailer
    Norman Mailer was a prominent American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for works like "The Naked and the Dead" and for co-founding The Village Voice.
  • D. Ada Louise Huxtable
    Ada Louise Huxtable was a pioneering American architecture critic and writer renowned for shaping public discourse on urban design and the built environment.
  • E. Inge Morath
    Inge Morath was an Austrian-born photographer renowned for her humanistic, often intimate photojournalism and long association with Magnum Photos.
  • 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_69a498dba1d8819093b46a3a8d2485f1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c6c78c9481909b210b845aa6e9df completed March 1, 2026, 11:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad1cadb50481908788b5710f6012db completed March 8, 2026, 6:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad1deb982481908f542c233c9352ab completed March 8, 2026, 6:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad1e79aecc8190a4c7d0f30fdc7e63 completed March 8, 2026, 7 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:12 p.m.