Triple

T2008817
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sophie's Choice E43645 entity
Predicate authorOfSourceWork P2353 FINISHED
Object William Styron
William Styron was an American novelist known for his psychologically intense, stylistically rich works that confront themes of guilt, memory, and moral catastrophe.
E226074 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: William Styron | Statement: [Sophie's Choice, authorOfSourceWork, William Styron]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Styron
Context triple: [Sophie's Choice, authorOfSourceWork, William Styron]
  • A. Richard Yates
    Richard Yates was an American politician who served as the Civil War–era governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. senator.
  • B. Richard Yates
    Richard Yates was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his bleak, incisive portrayals of mid-20th-century suburban disillusionment, particularly in his novel "Revolutionary Road."
  • C. Thomas Wolfe
    Thomas Wolfe was a major early 20th-century American novelist best known for his sprawling, autobiographical works such as "Look Homeward, Angel."
  • D. Carson McCullers
    Carson McCullers was an American novelist and short story writer known for her haunting explorations of loneliness, identity, and the human condition in the mid-20th-century American South.
  • E. Norman Mailer
    Norman Mailer was a prominent American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for works like "The Naked and the Dead" and for co-founding The Village Voice.
  • 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: William Styron
Triple: [Sophie's Choice, authorOfSourceWork, William Styron]
Generated description
William Styron was an American novelist known for his psychologically intense, stylistically rich works that confront themes of guilt, memory, and moral catastrophe.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Styron
Target entity description: William Styron was an American novelist known for his psychologically intense, stylistically rich works that confront themes of guilt, memory, and moral catastrophe.
  • A. Richard Yates
    Richard Yates was an American politician who served as the Civil War–era governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. senator.
  • B. Richard Yates
    Richard Yates was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his bleak, incisive portrayals of mid-20th-century suburban disillusionment, particularly in his novel "Revolutionary Road."
  • C. Thomas Wolfe
    Thomas Wolfe was a major early 20th-century American novelist best known for his sprawling, autobiographical works such as "Look Homeward, Angel."
  • D. Carson McCullers
    Carson McCullers was an American novelist and short story writer known for her haunting explorations of loneliness, identity, and the human condition in the mid-20th-century American South.
  • E. Norman Mailer
    Norman Mailer was a prominent American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for works like "The Naked and the Dead" and for co-founding The Village Voice.
  • 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_69a88716e9f08190946313fdc949e3cf completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb89be08c81909eb5ea672ea46b2b completed March 7, 2026, 5:33 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae0ae395a08190abf2077ad7a975ba completed March 8, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae0bb8b34c81908f817bb1fbcb1873 completed March 8, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae0c20aaf48190852334f9c76d0d18 completed March 8, 2026, 11:54 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.