Triple
T6559966
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Herbert Huncke |
E152553
|
entity |
| Predicate | inspiredCharacter |
P2004
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Elmer Hassel in "Junkie" by William S. Burroughs |
E62684
|
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: Elmer Hassel in "Junkie" by William S. Burroughs | Statement: [Herbert Huncke, inspiredCharacter, Elmer Hassel in "Junkie" by William S. Burroughs]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elmer Hassel in "Junkie" by William S. Burroughs Context triple: [Herbert Huncke, inspiredCharacter, Elmer Hassel in "Junkie" by William S. Burroughs]
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A.
William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs was an influential American novelist and essayist known for his experimental, transgressive works such as "Naked Lunch" and his central role in the development of postwar countercultural literature.
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B.
Burrough
Burrough is a surname most notably associated with Ken Burrough, a former American football wide receiver who starred for the Houston Oilers in the 1970s.
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C.
Junkie
chosen
"Junkie" is a semi-autobiographical novel by William S. Burroughs that offers a stark, firsthand portrayal of drug addiction and urban underworld life, and is considered an early landmark of the Beat Generation.
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D.
Neal Cassady
Neal Cassady was an American writer and charismatic drifter whose freewheeling lifestyle and letters deeply influenced the Beat Generation, most famously inspiring the character Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s "On the Road."
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E.
Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer known for his raw, autobiographical depictions of alcoholism, poverty, and the lives of marginalized people in mid-20th-century America.
- 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_69c688058d6881908c19b309cc55dbfa |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6ae22442081909bd6e2ba0091c56b |
completed | March 27, 2026, 4:19 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c6cb8bae88819089cff70fa1101a39 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 6:25 p.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:52 p.m.