Triple

T2894424
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Foster Wallace E63902 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Consider the Lobster
Consider the Lobster is a celebrated essay collection by David Foster Wallace that blends literary criticism, cultural commentary, and philosophical inquiry with his signature footnoted, digressive style.
E308225 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: Consider the Lobster | Statement: [David Foster Wallace, notableWork, Consider the Lobster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Consider the Lobster
Context triple: [David Foster Wallace, notableWork, Consider the Lobster]
  • A. Lobster Telephone
    Lobster Telephone is a surrealist sculpture by Salvador Dalí that combines a lobster and a telephone to create an absurd, dreamlike everyday object.
  • B. Lobster Trap and Fish Tail
    Lobster Trap and Fish Tail is a famous hanging mobile sculpture by Alexander Calder, celebrated for its abstract, kinetic forms that evoke marine life and movement.
  • C. The Octopus
    The Octopus is the flamboyant, sadistic arch-villain in the 2008 film "The Spirit," known for his theatrical personality and brutal methods.
  • D. The Crab Pot
    The Crab Pot is a popular Seattle waterfront seafood restaurant known for its casual atmosphere and signature “seafeast” crab and shellfish boils served family-style on paper-covered tables.
  • E. El Pulpo
    El Pulpo is the notorious nickname for the United Fruit Company, a powerful U.S. corporation historically known for its vast control over banana production and politics in Latin America.
  • 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: Consider the Lobster
Triple: [David Foster Wallace, notableWork, Consider the Lobster]
Generated description
Consider the Lobster is a celebrated essay collection by David Foster Wallace that blends literary criticism, cultural commentary, and philosophical inquiry with his signature footnoted, digressive style.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Consider the Lobster
Target entity description: Consider the Lobster is a celebrated essay collection by David Foster Wallace that blends literary criticism, cultural commentary, and philosophical inquiry with his signature footnoted, digressive style.
  • A. Lobster Telephone
    Lobster Telephone is a surrealist sculpture by Salvador Dalí that combines a lobster and a telephone to create an absurd, dreamlike everyday object.
  • B. Lobster Trap and Fish Tail
    Lobster Trap and Fish Tail is a famous hanging mobile sculpture by Alexander Calder, celebrated for its abstract, kinetic forms that evoke marine life and movement.
  • C. The Octopus
    The Octopus is the flamboyant, sadistic arch-villain in the 2008 film "The Spirit," known for his theatrical personality and brutal methods.
  • D. The Crab Pot
    The Crab Pot is a popular Seattle waterfront seafood restaurant known for its casual atmosphere and signature “seafeast” crab and shellfish boils served family-style on paper-covered tables.
  • E. El Pulpo
    El Pulpo is the notorious nickname for the United Fruit Company, a powerful U.S. corporation historically known for its vast control over banana production and politics in Latin America.
  • 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.