Triple

T15079622
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject E. L. Doctorow E380102 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Homer & Langley
"Homer & Langley" is a novel by E. L. Doctorow that reimagines the lives of the eccentric Collyer brothers in 20th-century New York City.
E1137514 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: Homer & Langley | Statement: [E. L. Doctorow, notableWork, Homer & Langley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Homer & Langley
Context triple: [E. L. Doctorow, notableWork, Homer & Langley]
  • A. Sullivan & Son
    Sullivan & Son is an American sitcom that follows a corporate lawyer who leaves his big-city career to run his family's bar in a working-class Pittsburgh neighborhood.
  • B. Hayes & Harlington
    Hayes & Harlington is a railway station in west London that serves as a key stop on the Elizabeth line, connecting the local area to central London and Heathrow.
  • C. Dewey & Almy
    Dewey & Almy was an architectural firm known for designing major mid-20th-century infrastructure projects in New York City, including the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
  • D. Eggers & Higgins
    Eggers & Higgins was a prominent 20th-century American architectural firm known for major public and institutional projects, including work on the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • E. Delano & Aldrich
    Delano & Aldrich was a prominent early 20th-century American architectural firm known for its elegant Beaux-Arts and neoclassical designs for mansions, clubs, and institutional buildings.
  • 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: Homer & Langley
Triple: [E. L. Doctorow, notableWork, Homer & Langley]
Generated description
"Homer & Langley" is a novel by E. L. Doctorow that reimagines the lives of the eccentric Collyer brothers in 20th-century New York City.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Homer & Langley
Target entity description: "Homer & Langley" is a novel by E. L. Doctorow that reimagines the lives of the eccentric Collyer brothers in 20th-century New York City.
  • A. Sullivan & Son
    Sullivan & Son is an American sitcom that follows a corporate lawyer who leaves his big-city career to run his family's bar in a working-class Pittsburgh neighborhood.
  • B. Hayes & Harlington
    Hayes & Harlington is a railway station in west London that serves as a key stop on the Elizabeth line, connecting the local area to central London and Heathrow.
  • C. Dewey & Almy
    Dewey & Almy was an architectural firm known for designing major mid-20th-century infrastructure projects in New York City, including the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
  • D. Eggers & Higgins
    Eggers & Higgins was a prominent 20th-century American architectural firm known for major public and institutional projects, including work on the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • E. Delano & Aldrich
    Delano & Aldrich was a prominent early 20th-century American architectural firm known for its elegant Beaux-Arts and neoclassical designs for mansions, clubs, and institutional buildings.
  • 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_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.