Triple

T2894422
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Foster Wallace E63902 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Pale King
The Pale King is an unfinished posthumous novel by David Foster Wallace that explores boredom, bureaucracy, and the search for meaning through the lives of IRS employees in the 1980s.
E308223 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: The Pale King | Statement: [David Foster Wallace, notableWork, The Pale King]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Pale King
Context triple: [David Foster Wallace, notableWork, The Pale King]
  • A. The Alphabet of Grace
    The Alphabet of Grace is a reflective theological memoir by Frederick Buechner that explores everyday life as a medium of God’s presence and grace.
  • B. Warlight
    Warlight is a postwar coming-of-age novel by Michael Ondaatje that follows two siblings uncovering the mysterious past of their parents in 1940s and 1950s London.
  • C. The Order of Things
    The Order of Things is a seminal 1966 work of philosophy by Michel Foucault that analyzes how different historical periods have structured knowledge and the human sciences.
  • D. El reino de este mundo
    El reino de este mundo is a landmark novel of Latin American literature by Alejo Carpentier that explores the Haitian Revolution through a richly baroque style and the concept of lo real maravilloso (the marvelous real).
  • E. Die Ersten und die Letzten
    Die Ersten und die Letzten is the memoir of German Luftwaffe fighter ace Adolf Galland, recounting his experiences and perspectives as a leading World War II pilot and commander.
  • 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: The Pale King
Triple: [David Foster Wallace, notableWork, The Pale King]
Generated description
The Pale King is an unfinished posthumous novel by David Foster Wallace that explores boredom, bureaucracy, and the search for meaning through the lives of IRS employees in the 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Pale King
Target entity description: The Pale King is an unfinished posthumous novel by David Foster Wallace that explores boredom, bureaucracy, and the search for meaning through the lives of IRS employees in the 1980s.
  • A. The Alphabet of Grace
    The Alphabet of Grace is a reflective theological memoir by Frederick Buechner that explores everyday life as a medium of God’s presence and grace.
  • B. Warlight
    Warlight is a postwar coming-of-age novel by Michael Ondaatje that follows two siblings uncovering the mysterious past of their parents in 1940s and 1950s London.
  • C. The Order of Things
    The Order of Things is a seminal 1966 work of philosophy by Michel Foucault that analyzes how different historical periods have structured knowledge and the human sciences.
  • D. El reino de este mundo
    El reino de este mundo is a landmark novel of Latin American literature by Alejo Carpentier that explores the Haitian Revolution through a richly baroque style and the concept of lo real maravilloso (the marvelous real).
  • E. Die Ersten und die Letzten
    Die Ersten und die Letzten is the memoir of German Luftwaffe fighter ace Adolf Galland, recounting his experiences and perspectives as a leading World War II pilot and commander.
  • 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.