Triple

T3675716
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Infinite Jest E77986 entity
Predicate follows P134 FINISHED
Object The Broom of the System
The Broom of the System is David Foster Wallace’s debut novel, a postmodern, comic exploration of language, identity, and reality set in a surreal version of Cleveland.
E378541 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 Broom of the System | Statement: [Infinite Jest, follows, The Broom of the System]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Broom of the System
Context triple: [Infinite Jest, follows, The Broom of the System]
  • A. The Cat's-Paw
    The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a naive missionary’s son unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.
  • B. The Flying Housewife
    The Flying Housewife was the nickname of Dutch sprinter and hurdler Fanny Blankers-Koen, a four-time gold medalist at the 1948 Olympics who became an icon for combining elite athletics with motherhood.
  • C. The Scapegoat
    The Scapegoat is a famous 1856 painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt depicting a lone goat symbolically burdened with the sins of the people in a desolate landscape.
  • D. The Debacle
    The Debacle is the English title of Émile Zola’s historical novel depicting the Franco-Prussian War and the fall of the Second French Empire.
  • E. The Limehouse Golem
    The Limehouse Golem is a 2016 British gothic horror-mystery film, based on Peter Ackroyd’s novel "Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem," about a series of gruesome murders in Victorian London.
  • 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 Broom of the System
Triple: [Infinite Jest, follows, The Broom of the System]
Generated description
The Broom of the System is David Foster Wallace’s debut novel, a postmodern, comic exploration of language, identity, and reality set in a surreal version of Cleveland.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Broom of the System
Target entity description: The Broom of the System is David Foster Wallace’s debut novel, a postmodern, comic exploration of language, identity, and reality set in a surreal version of Cleveland.
  • A. The Cat's-Paw
    The Cat's-Paw is a 1934 American comedy film starring Harold Lloyd as a naive missionary’s son unwittingly drawn into small-town political corruption.
  • B. The Flying Housewife
    The Flying Housewife was the nickname of Dutch sprinter and hurdler Fanny Blankers-Koen, a four-time gold medalist at the 1948 Olympics who became an icon for combining elite athletics with motherhood.
  • C. The Scapegoat
    The Scapegoat is a famous 1856 painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt depicting a lone goat symbolically burdened with the sins of the people in a desolate landscape.
  • D. The Debacle
    The Debacle is the English title of Émile Zola’s historical novel depicting the Franco-Prussian War and the fall of the Second French Empire.
  • E. The Limehouse Golem
    The Limehouse Golem is a 2016 British gothic horror-mystery film, based on Peter Ackroyd’s novel "Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem," about a series of gruesome murders in Victorian London.
  • 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_69ad85e083008190b2e1b7085fe500bd completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc462ffdc8190896e9f98f648e2f3 completed March 8, 2026, 6:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b48856b7d481909d9cc32586d61d44 completed March 13, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b489b0de348190a339affb0d59e4b3 completed March 13, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4bc976fc881909a067b73002c5305 completed March 14, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:25 p.m.