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.
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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."
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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."
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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.
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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.