Triple

T15028002
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Portable Faulkner E378266 entity
Predicate editor P1954 FINISHED
Object Malcolm Cowley
Malcolm Cowley was an influential American literary critic, editor, and writer known for championing modernist authors and shaping the reception of 20th-century American literature.
E1133918 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: Malcolm Cowley | Statement: [The Portable Faulkner, editor, Malcolm Cowley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Malcolm Cowley
Context triple: [The Portable Faulkner, editor, Malcolm Cowley]
  • A. Van Wyck Brooks
    Van Wyck Brooks was an American literary critic and historian best known for his influential studies of American literature and culture in the early 20th century.
  • B. George Trilling
    George Trilling is an American experimental physicist known for his contributions to particle physics and his leadership in major high-energy physics experiments.
  • C. Edmund Wilson
    Edmund Wilson was a prominent 20th-century American literary critic and essayist known for his influential writings on literature, politics, and culture.
  • D. Alvin Langdon Coburn
    Alvin Langdon Coburn was an influential early 20th-century American-born photographer known for his pioneering work in pictorialism and abstract photography.
  • E. Stanley Kunitz
    Stanley Kunitz was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet and influential teacher whose work and mentorship significantly shaped 20th-century American poetry.
  • 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: Malcolm Cowley
Triple: [The Portable Faulkner, editor, Malcolm Cowley]
Generated description
Malcolm Cowley was an influential American literary critic, editor, and writer known for championing modernist authors and shaping the reception of 20th-century American literature.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Malcolm Cowley
Target entity description: Malcolm Cowley was an influential American literary critic, editor, and writer known for championing modernist authors and shaping the reception of 20th-century American literature.
  • A. Van Wyck Brooks
    Van Wyck Brooks was an American literary critic and historian best known for his influential studies of American literature and culture in the early 20th century.
  • B. George Trilling
    George Trilling is an American experimental physicist known for his contributions to particle physics and his leadership in major high-energy physics experiments.
  • C. Edmund Wilson
    Edmund Wilson was a prominent 20th-century American literary critic and essayist known for his influential writings on literature, politics, and culture.
  • D. Alvin Langdon Coburn
    Alvin Langdon Coburn was an influential early 20th-century American-born photographer known for his pioneering work in pictorialism and abstract photography.
  • E. Stanley Kunitz
    Stanley Kunitz was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet and influential teacher whose work and mentorship significantly shaped 20th-century American poetry.
  • 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_69d85cd46b2c819090d054c27787f677 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded7e0e8c88190ac6f5786b4d4040f completed April 15, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe9dd967588190821cf47e9734db21 completed May 9, 2026, 2:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe9e5dbbe0819084567688758b0245 completed May 9, 2026, 2:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe9eedca1481908ce438991184d62e completed May 9, 2026, 2:41 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:58 a.m.