Triple

T3331540
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jonathan Franzen E70042 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object William Gaddis
William Gaddis was an American postmodern novelist known for his dense, allusive, and formally experimental works such as "The Recognitions" and "JR."
 E385387 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: William Gaddis | Statement: [Jonathan Franzen, influencedBy, William Gaddis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Gaddis
Context triple: [Jonathan Franzen, influencedBy, William Gaddis]
  • 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 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."
  • C. Thomas Wolff
    Thomas Wolff was an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
  • D. E. L. Doctorow
    E. L. Doctorow was an acclaimed American novelist known for his innovative works of historical fiction, including "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate."
  • E. John Cheever
    John Cheever was a prominent 20th-century American writer best known for his incisive short stories and novels depicting the anxieties and contradictions of suburban middle-class life.
  • 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: William Gaddis
Triple: [Jonathan Franzen, influencedBy, William Gaddis]
Generated description
William Gaddis was an American postmodern novelist known for his dense, allusive, and formally experimental works such as "The Recognitions" and "JR."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Gaddis
Target entity description: William Gaddis was an American postmodern novelist known for his dense, allusive, and formally experimental works such as "The Recognitions" and "JR."
  • 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 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."
  • C. Thomas Wolff
    Thomas Wolff was an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
  • D. E. L. Doctorow
    E. L. Doctorow was an acclaimed American novelist known for his innovative works of historical fiction, including "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate."
  • E. John Cheever
    John Cheever was a prominent 20th-century American writer best known for his incisive short stories and novels depicting the anxieties and contradictions of suburban middle-class life.
  • 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_69b4e4cd6cd08190ba6d379c8dc48723 completed March 14, 2026, 4:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4e594fe2081909623aac85f517f92 completed March 14, 2026, 4:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4e60d2224819081b7a95592f1fd74 completed March 14, 2026, 4:37 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:12 p.m.