Triple

T549375
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Don DeLillo E11803 entity
Predicate awardReceived P11 FINISHED
Object William Dean Howells Medal E63180 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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 Dean Howells Medal | Statement: [Don DeLillo, awardReceived, William Dean Howells Medal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Dean Howells Medal
Context triple: [Don DeLillo, awardReceived, William Dean Howells Medal]
  • A. William Dean Howells Medal chosen
    The William Dean Howells Medal is a prestigious American literary award presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for outstanding achievement in fiction, typically recognizing a distinguished novel.
  • B. PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
    The PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction is a prestigious literary honor recognizing a living American author whose body of work exemplifies excellence and lasting significance in fiction.
  • C. O. Henry Award
    The O. Henry Award is a prestigious annual American prize recognizing outstanding short stories.
  • D. James Tait Black Memorial Prize
    The James Tait Black Memorial Prize is one of the United Kingdom’s oldest and most prestigious literary awards, given annually for outstanding works of fiction and biography.
  • E. Melville Medal
    The Melville Medal is a prestigious honor awarded by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for the best original technical paper published in its journals.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69a4932941d08190815efd422f0b4ca7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49901e4e481909a5ed93c21ab37bd completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4ed331fa481909bd9c633ac952585 completed March 2, 2026, 1:51 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.