Triple
T2640858
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Blake Bailey |
E62861
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Cheever: A Life
Cheever: A Life is a comprehensive literary biography of American writer John Cheever, written by Blake Bailey.
|
E286198
|
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: Cheever: A Life | Statement: [Blake Bailey, notableWork, Cheever: A Life]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cheever: A Life Context triple: [Blake Bailey, notableWork, Cheever: A Life]
-
A.
Hampton Sides
Hampton Sides is an American historian and bestselling narrative nonfiction author known for his gripping accounts of exploration, war, and adventure.
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B.
Keyserling
Keyserling is a surname most notably associated with Leon H. Keyserling, an influential American economist and former chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers.
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C.
Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe was an American author and journalist renowned for pioneering New Journalism and writing influential works such as "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" and "The Bonfire of the Vanities."
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D.
Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his narrative nonfiction works such as "The Soul of a New Machine" and "Mountains Beyond Mountains."
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E.
Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry is a 1960 American drama film, based on Sinclair Lewis’s novel, about a charismatic but morally conflicted salesman-turned-evangelist.
- 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: Cheever: A Life Triple: [Blake Bailey, notableWork, Cheever: A Life]
Generated description
Cheever: A Life is a comprehensive literary biography of American writer John Cheever, written by Blake Bailey.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cheever: A Life Target entity description: Cheever: A Life is a comprehensive literary biography of American writer John Cheever, written by Blake Bailey.
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A.
Hampton Sides
Hampton Sides is an American historian and bestselling narrative nonfiction author known for his gripping accounts of exploration, war, and adventure.
-
B.
Keyserling
Keyserling is a surname most notably associated with Leon H. Keyserling, an influential American economist and former chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers.
-
C.
Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe was an American author and journalist renowned for pioneering New Journalism and writing influential works such as "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" and "The Bonfire of the Vanities."
-
D.
Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his narrative nonfiction works such as "The Soul of a New Machine" and "Mountains Beyond Mountains."
-
E.
Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry is a 1960 American drama film, based on Sinclair Lewis’s novel, about a charismatic but morally conflicted salesman-turned-evangelist.
- 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_69ab4c3f2dcc819082df80f5e032f690 |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abd8fc8ee881908a9f6820d8934a62 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 7:51 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69af98bd689481908568d35baac1e065 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 4:06 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69af99c237548190838559ccac95f1c5 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 4:10 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69af9a5938b48190820f37f2e2280438 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 4:13 a.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:53 p.m.