Triple

T3101106
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jonathan Lethem E64719 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn is a crime novel by Jonathan Lethem that follows a detective with Tourette’s syndrome as he investigates his mentor’s murder in a noir-inflected, character-driven mystery.
E326655 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: Motherless Brooklyn | Statement: [Jonathan Lethem, notableWork, Motherless Brooklyn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Motherless Brooklyn
Context triple: [Jonathan Lethem, notableWork, Motherless Brooklyn]
  • A. The Devil All the Time
    The Devil All the Time is a 2020 American psychological thriller film, based on Donald Ray Pollock’s novel, that weaves together violent, gothic tales of faith, corruption, and trauma in mid-20th-century rural Ohio and West Virginia.
  • B. Stingo
    Stingo is the young Southern writer and narrator in William Styron’s novel "Sophie’s Choice," through whose perspective the tragic story unfolds.
  • C. The Corrections
    The Corrections is a critically acclaimed novel by Jonathan Franzen that explores the complexities of a Midwestern American family at the turn of the 21st century.
  • D. The Only Living Boy in New York
    "The Only Living Boy in New York" is a reflective folk-rock song by Simon & Garfunkel, noted for its lush harmonies and introspective lyrics about isolation and friendship.
  • E. The Believer
    The Believer is a 2001 drama film about a young Jewish man who becomes a neo-Nazi, known for its intense exploration of identity and extremism.
  • 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: Motherless Brooklyn
Triple: [Jonathan Lethem, notableWork, Motherless Brooklyn]
Generated description
Motherless Brooklyn is a crime novel by Jonathan Lethem that follows a detective with Tourette’s syndrome as he investigates his mentor’s murder in a noir-inflected, character-driven mystery.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Motherless Brooklyn
Target entity description: Motherless Brooklyn is a crime novel by Jonathan Lethem that follows a detective with Tourette’s syndrome as he investigates his mentor’s murder in a noir-inflected, character-driven mystery.
  • A. The Devil All the Time
    The Devil All the Time is a 2020 American psychological thriller film, based on Donald Ray Pollock’s novel, that weaves together violent, gothic tales of faith, corruption, and trauma in mid-20th-century rural Ohio and West Virginia.
  • B. Stingo
    Stingo is the young Southern writer and narrator in William Styron’s novel "Sophie’s Choice," through whose perspective the tragic story unfolds.
  • C. The Corrections
    The Corrections is a critically acclaimed novel by Jonathan Franzen that explores the complexities of a Midwestern American family at the turn of the 21st century.
  • D. The Only Living Boy in New York
    "The Only Living Boy in New York" is a reflective folk-rock song by Simon & Garfunkel, noted for its lush harmonies and introspective lyrics about isolation and friendship.
  • E. The Believer
    The Believer is a 2001 drama film about a young Jewish man who becomes a neo-Nazi, known for its intense exploration of identity and extremism.
  • 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_69ad857dc98481909e585dc3372e3ed5 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada26c76ec81908d11f82be573c518 completed March 8, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b203809fac81908047b1139b13cb04 completed March 12, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b20532b7388190be5f7bcf48db6f45 completed March 12, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2058d7c4c8190a44fc8745df3b1b3 completed March 12, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:03 p.m.