Triple

T3266418
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Grann E68538 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The White Darkness
The White Darkness is a nonfiction book by David Grann that recounts British explorer Henry Worsley’s obsessive and perilous Antarctic expeditions inspired by Ernest Shackleton.
E341803 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 White Darkness | Statement: [David Grann, notableWork, The White Darkness]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The White Darkness
Context triple: [David Grann, notableWork, The White Darkness]
  • A. The North Water
    The North Water is a British television drama miniseries adapted from Ian McGuire’s novel, following a disgraced surgeon on a brutal 19th-century whaling expedition in the Arctic.
  • B. The Grey
    The Grey is a 2011 survival thriller film in which Liam Neeson plays an oil-rig worker leading stranded men through the Alaskan wilderness while being hunted by a pack of wolves.
  • C. The Cross of Snow
    The Cross of Snow is a sonnet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that mournfully commemorates his wife Frances Appleton and reflects on enduring grief through the metaphor of a snow-filled mountain ravine.
  • D. The Valley of Ghosts
    The Valley of Ghosts is a mystery novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, known for its suspenseful crime plot and atmospheric setting.
  • E. The Cold and the Dark
    The Cold and the Dark is a 1984 scientific assessment of the potential global climatic and environmental consequences of nuclear war, co-authored by Carl Sagan and colleagues.
  • 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 White Darkness
Triple: [David Grann, notableWork, The White Darkness]
Generated description
The White Darkness is a nonfiction book by David Grann that recounts British explorer Henry Worsley’s obsessive and perilous Antarctic expeditions inspired by Ernest Shackleton.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The White Darkness
Target entity description: The White Darkness is a nonfiction book by David Grann that recounts British explorer Henry Worsley’s obsessive and perilous Antarctic expeditions inspired by Ernest Shackleton.
  • A. The North Water
    The North Water is a British television drama miniseries adapted from Ian McGuire’s novel, following a disgraced surgeon on a brutal 19th-century whaling expedition in the Arctic.
  • B. The Grey
    The Grey is a 2011 survival thriller film in which Liam Neeson plays an oil-rig worker leading stranded men through the Alaskan wilderness while being hunted by a pack of wolves.
  • C. The Cross of Snow
    The Cross of Snow is a sonnet by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that mournfully commemorates his wife Frances Appleton and reflects on enduring grief through the metaphor of a snow-filled mountain ravine.
  • D. The Valley of Ghosts
    The Valley of Ghosts is a mystery novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, known for its suspenseful crime plot and atmospheric setting.
  • E. The Cold and the Dark
    The Cold and the Dark is a 1984 scientific assessment of the potential global climatic and environmental consequences of nuclear war, co-authored by Carl Sagan and colleagues.
  • 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_69ad8590444081909e8107a8aeef3a23 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adafce46dc8190a157e4f5012baed5 completed March 8, 2026, 5:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b28eed68c08190994376bfbfeae949 completed March 12, 2026, 10:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2900805d08190afbda5ee5e984b71 completed March 12, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2ac4c52d48190a87b1e535c2e8a37 completed March 12, 2026, 12:06 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:09 p.m.