Triple

T2881156
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Kansas City Star E59398 entity
Predicate employed P7 FINISHED
Object A. B. Guthrie Jr.
A. B. Guthrie Jr. was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning Western novel "The Way West" and his contributions to the literature of the American frontier.
E307934 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: A. B. Guthrie Jr. | Statement: [The Kansas City Star, employed, A. B. Guthrie Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A. B. Guthrie Jr.
Context triple: [The Kansas City Star, employed, A. B. Guthrie Jr.]
  • A. Sherwood Anderson
    Sherwood Anderson was an American modernist writer best known for his influential short story cycle "Winesburg, Ohio," which deeply explored small-town life and psychological realism.
  • B. Almanzo Wilder
    Almanzo Wilder was an American farmer and the husband of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose frontier life inspired the "Little House" books.
  • C. Larry McMurtry
    Larry McMurtry was an acclaimed American novelist and screenwriter best known for works like "Lonesome Dove" and for adapting literary works into award-winning films.
  • 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. Frank Norris
    Frank Norris was an American novelist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries known for his naturalistic works such as "McTeague" and "The Octopus," which explored the harsh realities of American life and capitalism.
  • 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: A. B. Guthrie Jr.
Triple: [The Kansas City Star, employed, A. B. Guthrie Jr.]
Generated description
A. B. Guthrie Jr. was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning Western novel "The Way West" and his contributions to the literature of the American frontier.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A. B. Guthrie Jr.
Target entity description: A. B. Guthrie Jr. was an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning Western novel "The Way West" and his contributions to the literature of the American frontier.
  • A. Sherwood Anderson
    Sherwood Anderson was an American modernist writer best known for his influential short story cycle "Winesburg, Ohio," which deeply explored small-town life and psychological realism.
  • B. Almanzo Wilder
    Almanzo Wilder was an American farmer and the husband of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose frontier life inspired the "Little House" books.
  • C. Larry McMurtry
    Larry McMurtry was an acclaimed American novelist and screenwriter best known for works like "Lonesome Dove" and for adapting literary works into award-winning films.
  • 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. Frank Norris
    Frank Norris was an American novelist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries known for his naturalistic works such as "McTeague" and "The Octopus," which explored the harsh realities of American life and capitalism.
  • 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_69ab4ac739188190a112f42a5a69c951 completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abe0296be081908070bd48fe4fc926 completed March 7, 2026, 8:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b031633efc819088c2ea29eafaff0f completed March 10, 2026, 2:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b033894ca881908691b88e6108257c completed March 10, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b03c3af7b48190b66bb32df59196e3 completed March 10, 2026, 3:43 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:03 p.m.