Triple

T16417284
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dorothy B. Hughes E398721 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Expendable Man
The Expendable Man is a 1963 psychological crime novel by Dorothy B. Hughes, acclaimed for its tense, noir-inflected exploration of paranoia, prejudice, and wrongful accusation in the American Southwest.
E1211763 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: The Expendable Man | Statement: [Dorothy B. Hughes, notableWork, The Expendable Man]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Expendable Man
Context triple: [Dorothy B. Hughes, notableWork, The Expendable Man]
  • A. The Indestructible Man
    The Indestructible Man is a 1956 American science fiction horror film starring Lon Chaney Jr. as a resurrected criminal seeking revenge.
  • B. The Outside Man
    The Outside Man is a 1972 French-Italian-American crime thriller film directed by Jacques Deray and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Ann-Margret.
  • C. The Other Man
    The Other Man is a 2008 psychological thriller film about a husband who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about his wife's secret lover.
  • D. Animal Man
    Animal Man is a DC Comics superhero, often associated with mature-reader Vertigo stories, who can mimic the abilities of any animal and frequently explores metafictional and philosophical themes.
  • E. The Man Beneath
    The Man Beneath is a 1919 silent drama film starring Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa, showcasing his early Hollywood leading-man career.
  • 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: The Expendable Man
Triple: [Dorothy B. Hughes, notableWork, The Expendable Man]
Generated description
The Expendable Man is a 1963 psychological crime novel by Dorothy B. Hughes, acclaimed for its tense, noir-inflected exploration of paranoia, prejudice, and wrongful accusation in the American Southwest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Expendable Man
Target entity description: The Expendable Man is a 1963 psychological crime novel by Dorothy B. Hughes, acclaimed for its tense, noir-inflected exploration of paranoia, prejudice, and wrongful accusation in the American Southwest.
  • A. The Indestructible Man
    The Indestructible Man is a 1956 American science fiction horror film starring Lon Chaney Jr. as a resurrected criminal seeking revenge.
  • B. The Outside Man
    The Outside Man is a 1972 French-Italian-American crime thriller film directed by Jacques Deray and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Ann-Margret.
  • C. The Other Man
    The Other Man is a 2008 psychological thriller film about a husband who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about his wife's secret lover.
  • D. Animal Man
    Animal Man is a DC Comics superhero, often associated with mature-reader Vertigo stories, who can mimic the abilities of any animal and frequently explores metafictional and philosophical themes.
  • E. The Man Beneath
    The Man Beneath is a 1919 silent drama film starring Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa, showcasing his early Hollywood leading-man career.
  • 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_69d87f2b9024819085c20e52de95d583 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e328798a488190a5fad01c3c95584c completed April 18, 2026, 6:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a003c6ca1bc8190a6c4f675ec8e3a53 completed May 10, 2026, 8:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a003e3b113c819083e1abc512631e2b completed May 10, 2026, 8:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a003eb6aa748190b0c8866af405794a completed May 10, 2026, 8:15 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:09 a.m.