Triple

T15710884
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Michael Tolkin E380832 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Among the Dead
"Among the Dead" is a darkly comic novel by Michael Tolkin that explores guilt, faith, and moral reckoning through the story of a man confronting his past after surviving a plane crash.
E1174047 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: Among the Dead | Statement: [Michael Tolkin, notableWork, Among the Dead]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Among the Dead
Context triple: [Michael Tolkin, notableWork, Among the Dead]
  • A. From the Dead
    "From the Dead" is a song from the Broadway musical adaptation of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, Lestat, composed by Elton John with lyrics by Bernie Taupin.
  • B. The Living and the Dead
    The Living and the Dead is a British supernatural drama television series set in Victorian rural England, blending ghostly mysteries with psychological and folk-horror elements.
  • C. The Living and the Dead
    The Living and the Dead is a major poetry collection by Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky, reflecting his philosophical and lyrical meditations on life, memory, and mortality.
  • D. Where the Dead Lay
    "Where the Dead Lay" is a hard-boiled crime thriller novel by David Levien featuring private investigator Frank Behr as he delves into a violent criminal underworld in Indianapolis.
  • E. Office of the Dead
    The Office of the Dead is a traditional set of prayers in the Roman Catholic liturgy, recited for the souls of the deceased, especially in connection with funerals and All Souls’ Day.
  • 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: Among the Dead
Triple: [Michael Tolkin, notableWork, Among the Dead]
Generated description
"Among the Dead" is a darkly comic novel by Michael Tolkin that explores guilt, faith, and moral reckoning through the story of a man confronting his past after surviving a plane crash.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Among the Dead
Target entity description: "Among the Dead" is a darkly comic novel by Michael Tolkin that explores guilt, faith, and moral reckoning through the story of a man confronting his past after surviving a plane crash.
  • A. From the Dead
    "From the Dead" is a song from the Broadway musical adaptation of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, Lestat, composed by Elton John with lyrics by Bernie Taupin.
  • B. The Living and the Dead
    The Living and the Dead is a British supernatural drama television series set in Victorian rural England, blending ghostly mysteries with psychological and folk-horror elements.
  • C. The Living and the Dead
    The Living and the Dead is a major poetry collection by Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky, reflecting his philosophical and lyrical meditations on life, memory, and mortality.
  • D. Where the Dead Lay
    "Where the Dead Lay" is a hard-boiled crime thriller novel by David Levien featuring private investigator Frank Behr as he delves into a violent criminal underworld in Indianapolis.
  • E. Office of the Dead
    The Office of the Dead is a traditional set of prayers in the Roman Catholic liturgy, recited for the souls of the deceased, especially in connection with funerals and All Souls’ Day.
  • 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_69d86d9bf930819082b30cf6d169297c completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04f8f5d6081908243fa59b46b7c76 completed April 16, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff82f22fc88190820ecb171041136d completed May 9, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff83ff8c7481909fbc502143c1852f completed May 9, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff846436e48190b711da134c9a3b81 completed May 9, 2026, 7 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:45 a.m.