Triple

T15779645
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Paul A. Marks E382578 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object autobiographical book "On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution"
"On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution" is an autobiographical book by cancer researcher and leader Paul A. Marks that chronicles his life’s work and the scientific and institutional advances that transformed modern cancer treatment.
E1177504 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: autobiographical book "On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution" | Statement: [Paul A. Marks, notableWork, autobiographical book "On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: autobiographical book "On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution"
Context triple: [Paul A. Marks, notableWork, autobiographical book "On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution"]
  • A. autobiography "Up Front"
    "Up Front" is the candid autobiography of English singer and television personality Coleen Nolan, detailing her life, career, and personal struggles.
  • B. The Death of Cancer
    The Death of Cancer is a nonfiction book by oncologist Vincent T. DeVita Jr. that chronicles the history, politics, and evolving science of cancer treatment from an insider’s perspective.
  • C. autobiography "Back from the Brink"
    "Back from the Brink" is the acclaimed autobiography of Irish footballer Paul McGrath, detailing his celebrated career and his struggles with alcoholism, mental health, and personal adversity.
  • D. The Cancer Journals
    The Cancer Journals is Audre Lorde’s groundbreaking collection of essays and reflections that intertwines her personal experience with breast cancer with feminist, queer, and anti-racist critique.
  • E. Our Cancer Year
    Our Cancer Year is a graphic novel memoir by Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner that chronicles their harrowing experiences with Pekar’s cancer diagnosis and treatment.
  • 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: autobiographical book "On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution"
Triple: [Paul A. Marks, notableWork, autobiographical book "On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution"]
Generated description
"On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution" is an autobiographical book by cancer researcher and leader Paul A. Marks that chronicles his life’s work and the scientific and institutional advances that transformed modern cancer treatment.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: autobiographical book "On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution"
Target entity description: "On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution" is an autobiographical book by cancer researcher and leader Paul A. Marks that chronicles his life’s work and the scientific and institutional advances that transformed modern cancer treatment.
  • A. autobiography "Up Front"
    "Up Front" is the candid autobiography of English singer and television personality Coleen Nolan, detailing her life, career, and personal struggles.
  • B. The Death of Cancer
    The Death of Cancer is a nonfiction book by oncologist Vincent T. DeVita Jr. that chronicles the history, politics, and evolving science of cancer treatment from an insider’s perspective.
  • C. autobiography "Back from the Brink"
    "Back from the Brink" is the acclaimed autobiography of Irish footballer Paul McGrath, detailing his celebrated career and his struggles with alcoholism, mental health, and personal adversity.
  • D. The Cancer Journals
    The Cancer Journals is Audre Lorde’s groundbreaking collection of essays and reflections that intertwines her personal experience with breast cancer with feminist, queer, and anti-racist critique.
  • E. Our Cancer Year
    Our Cancer Year is a graphic novel memoir by Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner that chronicles their harrowing experiences with Pekar’s cancer diagnosis and treatment.
  • 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_69d86da09a10819082fe9797b23e4664 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e053fea90081908e3fe4f91475bead completed April 16, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff909f7f4481909cceb32e26af3780 completed May 9, 2026, 7:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff93cf529c819097537d87689aad93 completed May 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff944ac4248190a3d60c2486910eaf completed May 9, 2026, 8:08 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:48 a.m.