Triple
T15893427
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Gaddis |
E385387
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Thomas Gaddis |
E385387
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: William Thomas Gaddis | Statement: [William Gaddis, fullName, William Thomas Gaddis]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Thomas Gaddis Context triple: [William Gaddis, fullName, William Thomas Gaddis]
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A.
William Gaddis
chosen
William Gaddis was an American postmodern novelist known for his dense, allusive, and formally experimental works such as "The Recognitions" and "JR."
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B.
William Gass
William Gass was an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic known for his innovative, philosophically rich fiction and influential essays on literature and language.
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C.
E. L. Doctorow
E. L. Doctorow was an acclaimed American novelist known for his innovative works of historical fiction, including "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate."
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D.
Thomas Wolff
Thomas Wolff was an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
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E.
Edward Bunker
Edward Bunker was an American ex-convict turned acclaimed crime novelist and screenwriter known for his gritty, realistic portrayals of criminal life.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d86da5b800819083a31be937d738b0 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e1563727cc819086b5c18b655dd7f6 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 9:35 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ffb0497cb481908e8ea4ebb9c4039d |
completed | May 9, 2026, 10:08 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:51 a.m.