Triple

T6391371
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lincoln Steffens E143834 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens is the memoir of American muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens, chronicling his life, career, and observations on political and social corruption in the early 20th century.
E591250 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: Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens | Statement: [Lincoln Steffens, notableWork, Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
Context triple: [Lincoln Steffens, notableWork, Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens]
  • A. Ten Days in a Mad-House
    "Ten Days in a Mad-House" is an 1887 investigative exposé by journalist Nellie Bly recounting her undercover experience in a New York insane asylum, which helped spark major reforms in mental health care.
  • B. The Brass Check
    The Brass Check is a 1919 exposé by Upton Sinclair that harshly criticizes the American newspaper industry for corruption, bias, and manipulation of public opinion.
  • C. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
    "The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism" is a historical nonfiction book by Doris Kearns Goodwin that explores the intertwined careers of Roosevelt and Taft alongside the rise of progressive-era investigative journalism.
  • D. The Gospel of Wealth
    The Gospel of Wealth is an 1889 essay by industrialist Andrew Carnegie that argues the rich have a moral obligation to distribute their fortunes for the benefit of society.
  • E. The Honest Men
    The Honest Men is the traditional nickname of Scottish football club Ayr United F.C., reflecting the club’s historic identity and local pride.
  • 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: Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
Triple: [Lincoln Steffens, notableWork, Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens]
Generated description
Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens is the memoir of American muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens, chronicling his life, career, and observations on political and social corruption in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
Target entity description: Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens is the memoir of American muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens, chronicling his life, career, and observations on political and social corruption in the early 20th century.
  • A. Ten Days in a Mad-House
    "Ten Days in a Mad-House" is an 1887 investigative exposé by journalist Nellie Bly recounting her undercover experience in a New York insane asylum, which helped spark major reforms in mental health care.
  • B. The Brass Check
    The Brass Check is a 1919 exposé by Upton Sinclair that harshly criticizes the American newspaper industry for corruption, bias, and manipulation of public opinion.
  • C. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
    "The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism" is a historical nonfiction book by Doris Kearns Goodwin that explores the intertwined careers of Roosevelt and Taft alongside the rise of progressive-era investigative journalism.
  • D. The Gospel of Wealth
    The Gospel of Wealth is an 1889 essay by industrialist Andrew Carnegie that argues the rich have a moral obligation to distribute their fortunes for the benefit of society.
  • E. The Honest Men
    The Honest Men is the traditional nickname of Scottish football club Ayr United F.C., reflecting the club’s historic identity and local pride.
  • 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_69c008db906c819096f3597d55d95432 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0687c7fdc819099cbbb937dec215e completed March 22, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6388b02888190989623c658469a5a completed March 27, 2026, 7:58 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c63c71ac188190ad7912d2e6a68af8 completed March 27, 2026, 8:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c63cdf225c8190b26a23496d0acc1a completed March 27, 2026, 8:16 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:34 p.m.