Triple
T3331466
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction |
E70041
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableRecipient |
P108
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
E. L. Doctorow
E. L. Doctorow was an acclaimed American novelist known for his innovative works of historical fiction, including "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate."
|
E380102
|
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: E. L. Doctorow | Statement: [PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, notableRecipient, E. L. Doctorow]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: E. L. Doctorow Context triple: [PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, notableRecipient, E. L. Doctorow]
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A.
Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo is a critically acclaimed American novelist known for his postmodern works that explore themes of consumerism, technology, and the anxieties of contemporary life, including novels such as "White Noise" and "Underworld."
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B.
Thomas Wolff
Thomas Wolff was an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
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C.
William T. Vollmann
William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for his ambitious, genre-blurring works that often explore violence, marginalization, and the moral complexities of history and contemporary society.
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D.
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon is a reclusive American novelist known for his dense, complex, and postmodern works such as "Gravity’s Rainbow" and "The Crying of Lot 49."
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E.
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was a prominent American novelist known for his incisive, often controversial explorations of Jewish-American identity, sexuality, and modern life in works such as "Portnoy’s Complaint" and the "Zuckerman" series.
- 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: E. L. Doctorow Triple: [PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, notableRecipient, E. L. Doctorow]
Generated description
E. L. Doctorow was an acclaimed American novelist known for his innovative works of historical fiction, including "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: E. L. Doctorow Target entity description: E. L. Doctorow was an acclaimed American novelist known for his innovative works of historical fiction, including "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate."
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A.
Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo is a critically acclaimed American novelist known for his postmodern works that explore themes of consumerism, technology, and the anxieties of contemporary life, including novels such as "White Noise" and "Underworld."
-
B.
Thomas Wolff
Thomas Wolff was an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
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C.
William T. Vollmann
William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for his ambitious, genre-blurring works that often explore violence, marginalization, and the moral complexities of history and contemporary society.
-
D.
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon is a reclusive American novelist known for his dense, complex, and postmodern works such as "Gravity’s Rainbow" and "The Crying of Lot 49."
-
E.
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was a prominent American novelist known for his incisive, often controversial explorations of Jewish-American identity, sexuality, and modern life in works such as "Portnoy’s Complaint" and the "Zuckerman" series.
- 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_69ad85a24f208190bcf83131bfed3521 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adb191e1988190a1d88596f6605aff |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:27 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b4c3667a288190aa79835f5d621942 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 2:09 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b4c71f486881909f18b26240cb7cf1 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 2:25 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b4c7b31e648190b9b8e1f761163035 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 2:28 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:12 p.m.