Triple

T23288537
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Sutherland E589959 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Lives of the Novelists NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Lives of the Novelists | Statement: [John Sutherland, notableWork, Lives of the Novelists]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lives of the Novelists
Context triple: [John Sutherland, notableWork, Lives of the Novelists]
  • A. Men of Letters
    The Men of Letters is a secret scholarly organization in the Supernatural universe dedicated to researching and preserving knowledge about the occult and supernatural.
  • B. The Belles Lettres Papers
    The Belles Lettres Papers is a satirical novel by Charles Simmons that humorously portrays the inner workings and eccentricities of an English department at a small American college.
  • C. On Becoming a Novelist
    On Becoming a Novelist is a widely respected craft book in which John Gardner offers practical guidance and philosophical reflections on the life, discipline, and mindset of the fiction writer.
  • D. The King of the Novel
    The King of the Novel is a short piece by John Irving, included in his collection "Trying to Save Piggy Sneed," that reflects on the craft and stature of the novelist.
  • E. The Biographer’s Tale
    The Biographer’s Tale is a metafictional novel by A. S. Byatt that follows a disillusioned academic who abandons literary theory to investigate the elusive life of a Victorian biographer, blurring the boundaries between biography, history, and storytelling.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lives of the Novelists
Target entity description: Lives of the Novelists is a comprehensive biographical and critical survey of major English-language novelists, written by literary scholar John Sutherland.
  • A. Men of Letters
    The Men of Letters is a secret scholarly organization in the Supernatural universe dedicated to researching and preserving knowledge about the occult and supernatural.
  • B. The Belles Lettres Papers
    The Belles Lettres Papers is a satirical novel by Charles Simmons that humorously portrays the inner workings and eccentricities of an English department at a small American college.
  • C. On Becoming a Novelist
    On Becoming a Novelist is a widely respected craft book in which John Gardner offers practical guidance and philosophical reflections on the life, discipline, and mindset of the fiction writer.
  • D. The King of the Novel
    The King of the Novel is a short piece by John Irving, included in his collection "Trying to Save Piggy Sneed," that reflects on the craft and stature of the novelist.
  • E. The Biographer’s Tale
    The Biographer’s Tale is a metafictional novel by A. S. Byatt that follows a disillusioned academic who abandons literary theory to investigate the elusive life of a Victorian biographer, blurring the boundaries between biography, history, and storytelling.
  • F. None of above. chosen

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_69e25d1af9d88190a0b9b5e8fa608618 completed April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f19649570c8190b565fafa55b1f886 completed April 29, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:01 p.m.