Triple

T16922668
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ian Thomson (writer) E410478 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Dead Yard
The Dead Yard is a critically acclaimed non-fiction book by Ian Thomson that offers a vivid, often unsettling portrait of contemporary Jamaica’s culture, history, and social struggles.
E1241223 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 Dead Yard | Statement: [Ian Thomson (writer), notableWork, The Dead Yard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Dead Yard
Context triple: [Ian Thomson (writer), notableWork, The Dead Yard]
  • A. Where the Dead Lay
    "Where the Dead Lay" is a hard-boiled crime thriller novel by David Levien featuring private investigator Frank Behr as he delves into a violent criminal underworld in Indianapolis.
  • B. A Place Among the Dead
    A Place Among the Dead is a hybrid narrative-documentary vampire film written and directed by Juliet Landau that explores the psychology of evil and abusive relationships through a highly personal, metafictional lens.
  • C. The Graveyard
    The Graveyard is a 2006 American slasher horror film about a group of friends whose deadly prank in a cemetery comes back to haunt them years later.
  • D. Among the Dead
    "Among the Dead" is a darkly comic novel by Michael Tolkin that explores guilt, faith, and moral reckoning through the story of a man confronting his past after surviving a plane crash.
  • E. The Dying Grass
    The Dying Grass is a sprawling historical novel by William T. Vollmann that chronicles the Nez Perce War of 1877 in his characteristically dense, experimental style.
  • 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 Dead Yard
Triple: [Ian Thomson (writer), notableWork, The Dead Yard]
Generated description
The Dead Yard is a critically acclaimed non-fiction book by Ian Thomson that offers a vivid, often unsettling portrait of contemporary Jamaica’s culture, history, and social struggles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Dead Yard
Target entity description: The Dead Yard is a critically acclaimed non-fiction book by Ian Thomson that offers a vivid, often unsettling portrait of contemporary Jamaica’s culture, history, and social struggles.
  • A. Where the Dead Lay
    "Where the Dead Lay" is a hard-boiled crime thriller novel by David Levien featuring private investigator Frank Behr as he delves into a violent criminal underworld in Indianapolis.
  • B. A Place Among the Dead
    A Place Among the Dead is a hybrid narrative-documentary vampire film written and directed by Juliet Landau that explores the psychology of evil and abusive relationships through a highly personal, metafictional lens.
  • C. The Graveyard
    The Graveyard is a 2006 American slasher horror film about a group of friends whose deadly prank in a cemetery comes back to haunt them years later.
  • D. Among the Dead
    "Among the Dead" is a darkly comic novel by Michael Tolkin that explores guilt, faith, and moral reckoning through the story of a man confronting his past after surviving a plane crash.
  • E. The Dying Grass
    The Dying Grass is a sprawling historical novel by William T. Vollmann that chronicles the Nez Perce War of 1877 in his characteristically dense, experimental style.
  • 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_69d886c7b1e481908c3766dfa8c13458 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3cdf06e8c81908028efef2faa6c6b completed April 18, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00cfd5e17481909fc4303fcc1342bf completed May 10, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00d0a0852c8190991af93d50fa2216 completed May 10, 2026, 6:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00d14b83d88190b3dbc124d5b33029 completed May 10, 2026, 6:41 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:30 a.m.