Triple

T15079616
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject E. L. Doctorow E380102 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Ragtime
Ragtime is a critically acclaimed 1975 historical novel by E. L. Doctorow that blends real and fictional characters to portray early 20th-century American society and its social upheavals.
E240386 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: Ragtime | Statement: [E. L. Doctorow, notableWork, Ragtime]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ragtime
Context triple: [E. L. Doctorow, notableWork, Ragtime]
  • A. Ragtime
    Ragtime is a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical that intertwines the stories of three families in early 20th-century America to explore themes of race, class, and social change.
  • B. Swing Time
    Swing Time is a 2016 novel by British author Zadie Smith that explores friendship, race, class, and ambition through the intertwined lives of two mixed-race girls who dream of becoming dancers.
  • C. Swing Time
    Swing Time is a classic 1936 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, renowned for its innovative dance sequences and Jerome Kern–Dorothy Fields score.
  • D. Jazz (novel)
    "Jazz" is a 1992 novel by Toni Morrison that explores love, violence, and memory in 1920s Harlem through a polyphonic, jazz-like narrative style.
  • E. Manhattan Melodrama
    Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 American crime drama film, best known for starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy and for being the movie John Dillinger watched before his death.
  • 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: Ragtime
Triple: [E. L. Doctorow, notableWork, Ragtime]
Generated description
Ragtime is a critically acclaimed 1975 historical novel by E. L. Doctorow that blends real and fictional characters to portray early 20th-century American society and its social upheavals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ragtime
Target entity description: Ragtime is a critically acclaimed 1975 historical novel by E. L. Doctorow that blends real and fictional characters to portray early 20th-century American society and its social upheavals.
  • A. Ragtime chosen
    Ragtime is a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical that intertwines the stories of three families in early 20th-century America to explore themes of race, class, and social change.
  • B. Swing Time
    Swing Time is a 2016 novel by British author Zadie Smith that explores friendship, race, class, and ambition through the intertwined lives of two mixed-race girls who dream of becoming dancers.
  • C. Swing Time
    Swing Time is a classic 1936 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, renowned for its innovative dance sequences and Jerome Kern–Dorothy Fields score.
  • D. Jazz (novel)
    "Jazz" is a 1992 novel by Toni Morrison that explores love, violence, and memory in 1920s Harlem through a polyphonic, jazz-like narrative style.
  • E. Manhattan Melodrama
    Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 American crime drama film, best known for starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy and for being the movie John Dillinger watched before his death.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d85cd7683881908d405c1b5d7b4f7f completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dff80008c88190840f94222f867478 completed April 15, 2026, 8:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69feae13f76881908485b3507b380799 completed May 9, 2026, 3:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69feafdbf5c08190b4b219009dbeb511 completed May 9, 2026, 3:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69feb05a3a308190930594538d79722a completed May 9, 2026, 3:56 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:03 a.m.