Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas King E143130 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Back of the Turtle
The Back of the Turtle is a novel by Thomas King that explores environmental disaster, Indigenous identity, and corporate responsibility through a scientist’s return to his devastated home community.
E587970 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 Back of the Turtle | Statement: [Thomas King, notableWork, The Back of the Turtle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Back of the Turtle
Context triple: [Thomas King, notableWork, The Back of the Turtle]
  • A. The Turtle Hospital
    The Turtle Hospital is a rehabilitation and conservation facility in the Florida Keys dedicated to rescuing, treating, and releasing injured sea turtles while educating the public about marine conservation.
  • B. The Snail
    The Snail is a late-career cut-out collage by Henri Matisse that arranges bold, colorful paper shapes into a semi-abstract spiral composition.
  • C. The Bent Twig
    The Bent Twig is an essay featured in the magazine Against the Current, likely addressing political or social issues from a critical or leftist perspective.
  • D. The Dream of the Blue Turtles
    The Dream of the Blue Turtles is Sting's debut solo studio album, blending pop, rock, and jazz influences and marking his artistic transition after leaving The Police.
  • E. The Pond
    The Pond is a picturesque man-made lake in the southeast corner of New York City's Central Park, known for its tranquil scenery, wildlife, and views of the surrounding skyline.
  • 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 Back of the Turtle
Triple: [Thomas King, notableWork, The Back of the Turtle]
Generated description
The Back of the Turtle is a novel by Thomas King that explores environmental disaster, Indigenous identity, and corporate responsibility through a scientist’s return to his devastated home community.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Back of the Turtle
Target entity description: The Back of the Turtle is a novel by Thomas King that explores environmental disaster, Indigenous identity, and corporate responsibility through a scientist’s return to his devastated home community.
  • A. The Turtle Hospital
    The Turtle Hospital is a rehabilitation and conservation facility in the Florida Keys dedicated to rescuing, treating, and releasing injured sea turtles while educating the public about marine conservation.
  • B. The Snail
    The Snail is a late-career cut-out collage by Henri Matisse that arranges bold, colorful paper shapes into a semi-abstract spiral composition.
  • C. The Bent Twig
    The Bent Twig is an essay featured in the magazine Against the Current, likely addressing political or social issues from a critical or leftist perspective.
  • D. The Dream of the Blue Turtles
    The Dream of the Blue Turtles is Sting's debut solo studio album, blending pop, rock, and jazz influences and marking his artistic transition after leaving The Police.
  • E. The Pond
    "The Pond" is a painting by British artist L. S. Lowry, depicting an industrial urban scene in his distinctive naïve style populated by matchstick-like figures.
  • 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_69c008d7a9c4819098d647ec47776917 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0680c02b481908618317566e31a5c completed March 22, 2026, 10:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c62d6d906481908b5883bff18ceec8 completed March 27, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c62e2072808190a4f2dd262b631c88 completed March 27, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c62f1bbdac8190b0cff9fbcddd68a7 completed March 27, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:32 p.m.