Triple

T15340280
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alistair MacLeod E366774 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood is a collection of short stories by Canadian author Alistair MacLeod that poignantly portrays the lives, hardships, and traditions of Cape Breton’s coastal communities.
E1152037 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: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood | Statement: [Alistair MacLeod, notableWork, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
Context triple: [Alistair MacLeod, notableWork, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood]
  • A. Blood and Gifts
    Blood and Gifts is a stage play by American playwright J.T. Rogers that dramatizes the covert geopolitical maneuvering and CIA involvement in Afghanistan during the Soviet–Afghan War.
  • B. Lifeblood
    Lifeblood is a 2004 studio album by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers, noted for its sleek, synth-tinged sound and introspective lyrical themes.
  • C. Lifeblood
    Lifeblood is a major expansion for the sci-fi MMORPG EVE Online that introduced significant changes to resource gathering, industry, and player-versus-environment content.
  • D. In the Blood
    "In the Blood" is a reflective pop-rock song by John Mayer that explores themes of identity and inherited traits, featured on his 2017 album *The Search for Everything*.
  • E. In the Blood
    "In the Blood" is a thriller film featuring Eloise Mumford in a prominent role, centered on a woman’s desperate search for her missing husband during a Caribbean vacation.
  • 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: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
Triple: [Alistair MacLeod, notableWork, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood]
Generated description
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood is a collection of short stories by Canadian author Alistair MacLeod that poignantly portrays the lives, hardships, and traditions of Cape Breton’s coastal communities.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
Target entity description: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood is a collection of short stories by Canadian author Alistair MacLeod that poignantly portrays the lives, hardships, and traditions of Cape Breton’s coastal communities.
  • A. Blood and Gifts
    Blood and Gifts is a stage play by American playwright J.T. Rogers that dramatizes the covert geopolitical maneuvering and CIA involvement in Afghanistan during the Soviet–Afghan War.
  • B. Lifeblood
    Lifeblood is a 2004 studio album by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers, noted for its sleek, synth-tinged sound and introspective lyrical themes.
  • C. Lifeblood
    Lifeblood is a major expansion for the sci-fi MMORPG EVE Online that introduced significant changes to resource gathering, industry, and player-versus-environment content.
  • D. In the Blood
    "In the Blood" is a reflective pop-rock song by John Mayer that explores themes of identity and inherited traits, featured on his 2017 album *The Search for Everything*.
  • E. In the Blood
    "In the Blood" is a thriller film featuring Eloise Mumford in a prominent role, centered on a woman’s desperate search for her missing husband during a Caribbean vacation.
  • 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_69d85a1355608190a6673ddb67231d54 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e03e12eb7c8190944a260aa1aa9156 completed April 16, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff01f55e9881908612c4e384836fb5 completed May 9, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff030970588190a793cd710e819635 completed May 9, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff04633de08190867ad3baec6b2b02 completed May 9, 2026, 9:54 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:17 a.m.