Triple

T15899383
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bernard Malamud E385543 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Dubin’s Lives
Dubin’s Lives is a 1979 novel by Bernard Malamud that follows a middle-aged biographer whose obsessive engagement with the lives he writes about complicates his own search for meaning, love, and identity.
E1183147 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: Dubin’s Lives | Statement: [Bernard Malamud, notableWork, Dubin’s Lives]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dubin’s Lives
Context triple: [Bernard Malamud, notableWork, Dubin’s Lives]
  • A. Three Lives
    Three Lives is a 1909 modernist short story collection by Gertrude Stein that experiments with language and narrative in portraying the inner lives of three working-class women.
  • B. Two Lives
    Two Lives is a memoir by Reeve Lindbergh that reflects on her complex family legacy and the contrasting lives of her parents, aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
  • C. A Double Life
    A Double Life is a 1947 psychological film noir drama about an actor whose immersion in a murderous stage role begins to blur the line between performance and reality.
  • D. Life of Tom Dula
    Life of Tom Dula is a biographical work recounting the life and infamous murder case of Tom Dula, the 19th-century North Carolina figure later immortalized in the folk song "Tom Dooley."
  • E. Bliss and Dickie
    Bliss and Dickie were pioneering late-19th-century archaeologists known for their early systematic excavations in Jerusalem and the Holy Land.
  • 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: Dubin’s Lives
Triple: [Bernard Malamud, notableWork, Dubin’s Lives]
Generated description
Dubin’s Lives is a 1979 novel by Bernard Malamud that follows a middle-aged biographer whose obsessive engagement with the lives he writes about complicates his own search for meaning, love, and identity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dubin’s Lives
Target entity description: Dubin’s Lives is a 1979 novel by Bernard Malamud that follows a middle-aged biographer whose obsessive engagement with the lives he writes about complicates his own search for meaning, love, and identity.
  • A. Three Lives
    Three Lives is a 1909 modernist short story collection by Gertrude Stein that experiments with language and narrative in portraying the inner lives of three working-class women.
  • B. Two Lives
    Two Lives is a memoir by Reeve Lindbergh that reflects on her complex family legacy and the contrasting lives of her parents, aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
  • C. A Double Life
    A Double Life is a 1947 psychological film noir drama about an actor whose immersion in a murderous stage role begins to blur the line between performance and reality.
  • D. Life of Tom Dula
    Life of Tom Dula is a biographical work recounting the life and infamous murder case of Tom Dula, the 19th-century North Carolina figure later immortalized in the folk song "Tom Dooley."
  • E. Bliss and Dickie
    Bliss and Dickie were pioneering late-19th-century archaeologists known for their early systematic excavations in Jerusalem and the Holy Land.
  • 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_69d86da5b800819083a31be937d738b0 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e1563bd0688190b6f7a695be0a4625 completed April 16, 2026, 9:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffb04d4d1c819091d9b3357ca0deca completed May 9, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffb190ae4881909ac299dfa6e7d9b6 completed May 9, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffb25747148190bc96cf19acf85e29 completed May 9, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:51 a.m.