Triple
T2894425
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | David Foster Wallace |
E63902
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Brief Interviews with Hideous Men |
E126623
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | Statement: [David Foster Wallace, notableWork, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men Context triple: [David Foster Wallace, notableWork, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men]
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A.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
chosen
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a 2009 independent film written and directed by John Krasinski, adapted from David Foster Wallace’s short story collection of the same name, exploring modern masculinity through a series of darkly comic interviews.
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B.
Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch is a groundbreaking and controversial novel by William S. Burroughs, known for its nonlinear, hallucinatory depiction of addiction and its central place in Beat Generation literature.
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C.
The Art of Cruelty
The Art of Cruelty is a critical work of cultural theory in which Maggie Nelson examines representations of violence and suffering in art, film, and literature, questioning their ethical and aesthetic implications.
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D.
Jar of Flies
Jar of Flies is a critically acclaimed 1994 EP by American rock band Alice in Chains, known for its dark, acoustic sound and introspective themes.
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E.
The Great Masturbator
The Great Masturbator is a 1929 surrealist painting by Salvador Dalí that depicts a distorted, dreamlike self-portrait exploring themes of sexuality, anxiety, and desire.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:07 p.m.