Triple

T15960032
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Walter Kirn E387033 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Thumbsucker
Thumbsucker is a coming-of-age novel by Walter Kirn that follows an anxious teenage boy’s struggles with addiction, identity, and family dysfunction.
E1186613 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: Thumbsucker | Statement: [Walter Kirn, notableWork, Thumbsucker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thumbsucker
Context triple: [Walter Kirn, notableWork, Thumbsucker]
  • A. The Pacifier
    The Pacifier is a 2005 family action-comedy film starring Vin Diesel as a Navy SEAL assigned to protect a group of children.
  • B. The Squid and the Whale
    The Squid and the Whale is a 2005 semi-autobiographical indie drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach that explores the emotional fallout of a bitter divorce on a Brooklyn family in the 1980s.
  • C. Tootsie
    Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film in which Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role, leading to unexpected fame and complications.
  • D. The Nance
    The Nance is a Broadway play by Douglas Carter Beane that explores the life and struggles of a gay burlesque performer in 1930s New York.
  • E. Big Eyes
    Big Eyes is a 2014 biographical drama film directed by Tim Burton that tells the story of painter Margaret Keane and the legal battle over the credit for her distinctive big-eyed children paintings.
  • 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: Thumbsucker
Triple: [Walter Kirn, notableWork, Thumbsucker]
Generated description
Thumbsucker is a coming-of-age novel by Walter Kirn that follows an anxious teenage boy’s struggles with addiction, identity, and family dysfunction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thumbsucker
Target entity description: Thumbsucker is a coming-of-age novel by Walter Kirn that follows an anxious teenage boy’s struggles with addiction, identity, and family dysfunction.
  • A. The Pacifier
    The Pacifier is a 2005 family action-comedy film starring Vin Diesel as a Navy SEAL assigned to protect a group of children.
  • B. The Squid and the Whale
    The Squid and the Whale is a 2005 semi-autobiographical indie drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach that explores the emotional fallout of a bitter divorce on a Brooklyn family in the 1980s.
  • C. Tootsie
    Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film in which Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role, leading to unexpected fame and complications.
  • D. The Nance
    The Nance is a Broadway play by Douglas Carter Beane that explores the life and struggles of a gay burlesque performer in 1930s New York.
  • E. Big Eyes
    Big Eyes is a 2014 biographical drama film directed by Tim Burton that tells the story of painter Margaret Keane and the legal battle over the credit for her distinctive big-eyed children paintings.
  • 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_69d86da882448190a82ea962fe343b79 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e156fe82d081908b5d41bc5a709de2 completed April 16, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffbe806ef4819095a4dfe104d0bdc8 completed May 9, 2026, 11:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffbf61b2ec81909c0f32613bb91a82 completed May 9, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffbfdfe58c8190b5964b6f5812ef65 completed May 9, 2026, 11:14 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:53 a.m.