Triple

T2894258
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William S. Burroughs E63899 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Junky
Junky is a semi-autobiographical novel by William S. Burroughs that candidly chronicles heroin addiction and the American drug underworld in the mid-20th century.
E308203 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: Junky | Statement: [William S. Burroughs, notableWork, Junky]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Junky
Context triple: [William S. Burroughs, notableWork, Junky]
  • A. That Yellow Bastard
    That Yellow Bastard is a neo-noir crime thriller segment of Frank Miller’s Sin City, centered on an aging cop’s final battle to save a young woman from a grotesquely deformed serial predator.
  • B. Nil by Mouth
    Nil by Mouth is a 1997 British drama film written and directed by Gary Oldman that portrays a brutal, unflinching look at domestic violence and addiction in South London.
  • C. Riff-Raff
    Riff-Raff is a 1991 British social-realist drama film directed by Ken Loach that follows the struggles of construction workers living on the margins of society.
  • D. The Yard
    The Yard is a popular nickname for Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the retro-style home ballpark of Major League Baseball’s Baltimore Orioles.
  • E. The Yard
    The Yard is the central campus of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, encompassing its main academic, residential, and ceremonial facilities.
  • 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: Junky
Triple: [William S. Burroughs, notableWork, Junky]
Generated description
Junky is a semi-autobiographical novel by William S. Burroughs that candidly chronicles heroin addiction and the American drug underworld in the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Junky
Target entity description: Junky is a semi-autobiographical novel by William S. Burroughs that candidly chronicles heroin addiction and the American drug underworld in the mid-20th century.
  • A. That Yellow Bastard
    That Yellow Bastard is a neo-noir crime thriller segment of Frank Miller’s Sin City, centered on an aging cop’s final battle to save a young woman from a grotesquely deformed serial predator.
  • B. Nil by Mouth
    Nil by Mouth is a 1997 British drama film written and directed by Gary Oldman that portrays a brutal, unflinching look at domestic violence and addiction in South London.
  • C. Riff-Raff
    Riff-Raff is a 1991 British social-realist drama film directed by Ken Loach that follows the struggles of construction workers living on the margins of society.
  • D. The Yard
    The Yard is the central campus of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, encompassing its main academic, residential, and ceremonial facilities.
  • E. The Yard
    The Yard is a popular nickname for Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the retro-style home ballpark of Major League Baseball’s Baltimore Orioles.
  • 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_69ab4c45822c8190830c5f2bb97bcfd0 completed March 6, 2026, 9:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abe063de6c8190bce9ddefd1dd62e1 completed March 7, 2026, 8:23 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b031814764819096a1664b468ec817 completed March 10, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b03206ad288190aaa97a9379f3438c completed March 10, 2026, 3 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b0398b955c81909c6155706f4b90e9 completed March 10, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:07 p.m.