Triple

T2855108
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Dean Howells Medal E63180 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Katherine Anne Porter
Katherine Anne Porter was an American journalist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for her short stories and the novel "Ship of Fools."
E309373 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: Katherine Anne Porter | Statement: [William Dean Howells Medal, hasRecipient, Katherine Anne Porter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Katherine Anne Porter
Context triple: [William Dean Howells Medal, hasRecipient, Katherine Anne Porter]
  • A. Kay Boyle
    Kay Boyle was an American writer and political activist associated with the Lost Generation, known for her experimental fiction, poetry, and short stories set in Europe between the World Wars.
  • B. Eudora Welty
    Eudora Welty was an American author known for her richly detailed short stories and novels set in the American South, often blending Southern Gothic elements with keen psychological insight and a strong sense of place.
  • C. Carson McCullers
    Carson McCullers was an American novelist and short story writer known for her haunting explorations of loneliness, identity, and the human condition in the mid-20th-century American South.
  • D. Willa Cather
    Willa Cather was a prominent American novelist best known for her evocative depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in works such as "My Ántonia" and "O Pioneers!".
  • E. Annie Proulx
    Annie Proulx is an acclaimed American author best known for her richly detailed fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Shipping News" and the short story "Brokeback Mountain."
  • 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: Katherine Anne Porter
Triple: [William Dean Howells Medal, hasRecipient, Katherine Anne Porter]
Generated description
Katherine Anne Porter was an American journalist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for her short stories and the novel "Ship of Fools."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Katherine Anne Porter
Target entity description: Katherine Anne Porter was an American journalist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for her short stories and the novel "Ship of Fools."
  • A. Kay Boyle
    Kay Boyle was an American writer and political activist associated with the Lost Generation, known for her experimental fiction, poetry, and short stories set in Europe between the World Wars.
  • B. Eudora Welty
    Eudora Welty was an American author known for her richly detailed short stories and novels set in the American South, often blending Southern Gothic elements with keen psychological insight and a strong sense of place.
  • C. Carson McCullers
    Carson McCullers was an American novelist and short story writer known for her haunting explorations of loneliness, identity, and the human condition in the mid-20th-century American South.
  • D. Willa Cather
    Willa Cather was a prominent American novelist best known for her evocative depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in works such as "My Ántonia" and "O Pioneers!".
  • E. Annie Proulx
    Annie Proulx is an acclaimed American author best known for her richly detailed fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Shipping News" and the short story "Brokeback Mountain."
  • 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_69b055e0c8088190a0fa67c9c14fc29b completed March 10, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b0639974448190b59b6d8ed951f69f completed March 10, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b063f9172481908e68c97059cf4b89 completed March 10, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:02 p.m.