Triple

T2855018
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Crying of Lot 49 E63178 entity
Predicate plotElement P2762 FINISHED
Object Tristero
Tristero is a mysterious underground postal system and secret organization central to the conspiracy and ambiguity in Thomas Pynchon's novel "The Crying of Lot 49."
 E304954 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: Tristero | Statement: [The Crying of Lot 49, plotElement, Tristero]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tristero
Context triple: [The Crying of Lot 49, plotElement, Tristero]
  • A. Trife
    Trife is a rapper best known as a member of the Brooklyn hip hop collective Junior M.A.F.I.A.
  • B. The Trick
    The Trick is a British drama film in which George MacKay stars in a story inspired by the real-life "Climategate" email hacking scandal.
  • C. Ubique
    Ubique is a Latin word meaning "everywhere," famously used as the motto of the Royal Regiment of Artillery and the Corps of Royal Engineers to signify their presence in all major battles.
  • D. Four Trials
    Four Trials is a nonfiction book by former U.S. senator and trial lawyer John Edwards recounting four of his most significant courtroom cases and reflecting on the American civil justice system.
  • E. The Pit
    The Pit is a famed college basketball arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico, renowned for its intense atmosphere and distinctive sunken design.
  • 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: Tristero
Triple: [The Crying of Lot 49, plotElement, Tristero]
Generated description
Tristero is a mysterious underground postal system and secret organization central to the conspiracy and ambiguity in Thomas Pynchon's novel "The Crying of Lot 49."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tristero
Target entity description: Tristero is a mysterious underground postal system and secret organization central to the conspiracy and ambiguity in Thomas Pynchon's novel "The Crying of Lot 49."
  • A. Trife
    Trife is a rapper best known as a member of the Brooklyn hip hop collective Junior M.A.F.I.A.
  • B. The Trick
    The Trick is a British drama film in which George MacKay stars in a story inspired by the real-life "Climategate" email hacking scandal.
  • C. Ubique
    Ubique is a Latin word meaning "everywhere," famously used as the motto of the Royal Regiment of Artillery and the Corps of Royal Engineers to signify their presence in all major battles.
  • D. Four Trials
    Four Trials is a nonfiction book by former U.S. senator and trial lawyer John Edwards recounting four of his most significant courtroom cases and reflecting on the American civil justice system.
  • E. The Pit
    The Pit is a famed college basketball arena in Albuquerque, New Mexico, renowned for its intense atmosphere and distinctive sunken design.
  • 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.