Triple
T18190279
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Erskine Caldwell |
E435514
|
entity |
| Predicate | name |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Erskine Caldwell |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
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: Erskine Caldwell | Statement: [Erskine Caldwell, name, Erskine Caldwell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Erskine Caldwell Context triple: [Erskine Caldwell, name, Erskine Caldwell]
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A.
Erskine Caldwell
chosen
Erskine Caldwell was an American author best known for his novels and short stories depicting poverty and social issues in the rural American South, including works like "Tobacco Road" and "God's Little Acre."
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B.
William Aiken
William Aiken was a prominent 19th-century South Carolina politician and governor whose influence led to places such as Aiken County being named in his honor.
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C.
W. R. Burnett
W. R. Burnett was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his hardboiled crime fiction that inspired numerous classic Hollywood films.
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D.
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Walter Van Tilburg Clark was an American author best known for his classic Western novel "The Ox-Bow Incident," which explores themes of mob justice and moral responsibility.
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E.
Jim Dickey
Jim Dickey is an American football coach best known for leading Kansas State University’s program in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including guiding the Wildcats to their first-ever bowl appearance.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b90c7ec081909b4694ccecb449c6 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e4e0016ec08190ae853dbc89865a41 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 2 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:31 a.m.