Triple

T2855000
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Crying of Lot 49 E63178 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Randolph Driblette
Randolph Driblette is a reclusive, visionary theater director and actor in Thomas Pynchon’s novel *The Crying of Lot 49*, whose enigmatic production of the play *The Courier’s Tragedy* deepens the book’s themes of conspiracy and interpretation.
E304952 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: Randolph Driblette | Statement: [The Crying of Lot 49, mainCharacter, Randolph Driblette]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Randolph Driblette
Context triple: [The Crying of Lot 49, mainCharacter, Randolph Driblette]
  • A. Elwood Mead
    Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
  • B. Jack McDuff
    Jack McDuff was an American jazz organist and bandleader known for his soulful Hammond B-3 playing and influential work in the soul-jazz and hard bop genres.
  • C. Roscoe Dash
    Roscoe Dash is an American rapper and songwriter known for his melodic hooks and contributions to early 2010s hip hop hits like "No Hands" and "All the Way Turnt Up."
  • D. Mr. Franks
    Mr. Franks is a music producer best known for his work with the hip-hop collective Legend.
  • E. Marv Tarplin
    Marv Tarplin was an American guitarist and songwriter best known for crafting the signature guitar riffs and co-writing many of the classic hits of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.
  • 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: Randolph Driblette
Triple: [The Crying of Lot 49, mainCharacter, Randolph Driblette]
Generated description
Randolph Driblette is a reclusive, visionary theater director and actor in Thomas Pynchon’s novel *The Crying of Lot 49*, whose enigmatic production of the play *The Courier’s Tragedy* deepens the book’s themes of conspiracy and interpretation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Randolph Driblette
Target entity description: Randolph Driblette is a reclusive, visionary theater director and actor in Thomas Pynchon’s novel *The Crying of Lot 49*, whose enigmatic production of the play *The Courier’s Tragedy* deepens the book’s themes of conspiracy and interpretation.
  • A. Elwood Mead
    Elwood Mead was an American engineer and public official who served as U.S. Commissioner of Reclamation and oversaw major Western water projects, including the development associated with Hoover Dam.
  • B. Jack McDuff
    Jack McDuff was an American jazz organist and bandleader known for his soulful Hammond B-3 playing and influential work in the soul-jazz and hard bop genres.
  • C. Roscoe Dash
    Roscoe Dash is an American rapper and songwriter known for his melodic hooks and contributions to early 2010s hip hop hits like "No Hands" and "All the Way Turnt Up."
  • D. Mr. Franks
    Mr. Franks is a music producer best known for his work with the hip-hop collective Legend.
  • E. Marv Tarplin
    Marv Tarplin was an American guitarist and songwriter best known for crafting the signature guitar riffs and co-writing many of the classic hits of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.
  • 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_69ab4c407c408190857d25e027155ce9 completed March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdf60852c8190b66c8719c63a723e completed March 7, 2026, 8:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b01d8d0eec8190b0b29407264fb2bd completed March 10, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b020869d7c81909d9a00cc43f0ed7d completed March 10, 2026, 1:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b02122270c8190a063f09acefcbb18 completed March 10, 2026, 1:48 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:02 p.m.