Triple

T2658565
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject This Boy's Life E54671 entity
Predicate basedOnAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff is an American author and memoirist renowned for his autobiographical works and short stories exploring memory, identity, and moral ambiguity.
E285510 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: Tobias Wolff | Statement: [This Boy's Life, basedOnAuthor, Tobias Wolff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tobias Wolff
Context triple: [This Boy's Life, basedOnAuthor, Tobias Wolff]
  • A. Thomas Wolff
    Thomas Wolff was an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
  • B. T.C. Boyle
    T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, stylistically inventive fiction and exploration of social and environmental themes.
  • C. William Faulks
    William Faulks is known as the son of British novelist Sebastian Faulks.
  • D. Adam Johnson
    Adam Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his novel "The Orphan Master's Son," which explores life in North Korea.
  • E. Jennifer Egan
    Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning, formally inventive novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad."
  • 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: Tobias Wolff
Triple: [This Boy's Life, basedOnAuthor, Tobias Wolff]
Generated description
Tobias Wolff is an American author and memoirist renowned for his autobiographical works and short stories exploring memory, identity, and moral ambiguity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tobias Wolff
Target entity description: Tobias Wolff is an American author and memoirist renowned for his autobiographical works and short stories exploring memory, identity, and moral ambiguity.
  • A. Thomas Wolff
    Thomas Wolff was an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
  • B. T.C. Boyle
    T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, stylistically inventive fiction and exploration of social and environmental themes.
  • C. William Faulks
    William Faulks is known as the son of British novelist Sebastian Faulks.
  • D. Adam Johnson
    Adam Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his novel "The Orphan Master's Son," which explores life in North Korea.
  • E. Jennifer Egan
    Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning, formally inventive novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad."
  • 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_69ab49e028948190b97e01d73548b1d9 completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd94dcaa48190aec625f68ce61a02 completed March 7, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af98d765c48190a227137467b7dbe1 completed March 10, 2026, 4:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af9952a95881908d01aa13f5feef43 completed March 10, 2026, 4:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af99e68f10819094d758d3a4bc2e9c completed March 10, 2026, 4:11 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:53 p.m.