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]
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • 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.