Triple
T2855100
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Dean Howells Medal |
E63180
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasRecipient |
P108
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Updike |
E106964
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: John Updike | Statement: [William Dean Howells Medal, hasRecipient, John Updike]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Updike Context triple: [William Dean Howells Medal, hasRecipient, John Updike]
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A.
John Updike
chosen
John Updike was an American novelist, short-story writer, and critic best known for his incisive portrayals of middle-class life in works such as the "Rabbit" series.
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B.
John Cheever
John Cheever was a prominent 20th-century American writer best known for his incisive short stories and novels depicting the anxieties and contradictions of suburban middle-class life.
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C.
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born American novelist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his richly intellectual, character-driven explorations of modern urban life and the search for meaning.
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D.
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was a prominent American novelist known for his incisive, often controversial explorations of Jewish-American identity, sexuality, and modern life in works such as "Portnoy’s Complaint" and the "Zuckerman" series.
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E.
Thomas Wolff
Thomas Wolff was an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:02 p.m.