Triple

T3174905
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Ox-Bow Incident E66438 entity
Predicate authorOfSourceWork P2353 FINISHED
Object Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Walter Van Tilburg Clark was an American author best known for his classic Western novel "The Ox-Bow Incident," which explores themes of mob justice and moral responsibility.
E336088 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: Walter Van Tilburg Clark | Statement: [The Ox-Bow Incident, authorOfSourceWork, Walter Van Tilburg Clark]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Context triple: [The Ox-Bow Incident, authorOfSourceWork, Walter Van Tilburg Clark]
  • A. Reeves McCullers
    Reeves McCullers was the husband of American novelist Carson McCullers and a key figure in her tumultuous personal life.
  • B. Sherwood Anderson
    Sherwood Anderson was an American modernist writer best known for his influential short story cycle "Winesburg, Ohio," which deeply explored small-town life and psychological realism.
  • C. Cecil Purdy
    Cecil Purdy was an Australian chess player, writer, and the first official World Correspondence Chess Champion, renowned for his instructional contributions to the game.
  • D. James Bridie
    James Bridie was a Scottish playwright and screenwriter, noted for his influential role in 20th-century British theatre and his collaborations on several major film adaptations.
  • E. Irving Morrow
    Irving Morrow was an American architect best known for designing the Art Deco elements and iconic International Orange color scheme of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
  • 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: Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Triple: [The Ox-Bow Incident, authorOfSourceWork, Walter Van Tilburg Clark]
Generated description
Walter Van Tilburg Clark was an American author best known for his classic Western novel "The Ox-Bow Incident," which explores themes of mob justice and moral responsibility.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Target entity description: Walter Van Tilburg Clark was an American author best known for his classic Western novel "The Ox-Bow Incident," which explores themes of mob justice and moral responsibility.
  • A. Reeves McCullers
    Reeves McCullers was the husband of American novelist Carson McCullers and a key figure in her tumultuous personal life.
  • B. Sherwood Anderson
    Sherwood Anderson was an American modernist writer best known for his influential short story cycle "Winesburg, Ohio," which deeply explored small-town life and psychological realism.
  • C. Cecil Purdy
    Cecil Purdy was an Australian chess player, writer, and the first official World Correspondence Chess Champion, renowned for his instructional contributions to the game.
  • D. James Bridie
    James Bridie was a Scottish playwright and screenwriter, noted for his influential role in 20th-century British theatre and his collaborations on several major film adaptations.
  • E. Irving Morrow
    Irving Morrow was an American architect best known for designing the Art Deco elements and iconic International Orange color scheme of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
  • 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_69ad8586a34c8190944c63ec11a8de1a completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada671e6848190a683eec1519b9268 completed March 8, 2026, 4:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b24b66b3e081908e8ea11d9b36e50a completed March 12, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b24f6f5ee08190b42e2ae0610c34d3 completed March 12, 2026, 5:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b24ff7eff88190973925ae3ef804c7 completed March 12, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:06 p.m.