Triple

T6823259
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Life of the Mind E156950 entity
Predicate posthumouslyEditedBy P64983 FINISHED
Object Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy was an American novelist, critic, and public intellectual known for her sharp wit, political engagement, and influential works such as "The Group."
E622247 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: Mary McCarthy | Statement: [The Life of the Mind, posthumouslyEditedBy, Mary McCarthy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary McCarthy
Context triple: [The Life of the Mind, posthumouslyEditedBy, Mary McCarthy]
  • A. Jessica Mitford
    Jessica Mitford was a British-born writer and investigative journalist best known for her muckraking exposés such as "The American Way of Death" and for her involvement in left-wing politics.
  • B. Elizabeth Hardwick
    Elizabeth Hardwick was an influential American literary critic, novelist, and co-founder of The New York Review of Books, renowned for her incisive essays and stylistic precision.
  • C. Dawn Powell
    Dawn Powell was an American novelist, playwright, and satirist known for her sharp, witty portrayals of New York City life in the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. Edith Willkie
    Edith Willkie was the wife of 1940 Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie and an American civic figure active in public and charitable affairs.
  • E. Jean Stafford
    Jean Stafford was an American novelist and short story writer known for her psychologically acute fiction and for winning the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
  • 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: Mary McCarthy
Triple: [The Life of the Mind, posthumouslyEditedBy, Mary McCarthy]
Generated description
Mary McCarthy was an American novelist, critic, and public intellectual known for her sharp wit, political engagement, and influential works such as "The Group."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary McCarthy
Target entity description: Mary McCarthy was an American novelist, critic, and public intellectual known for her sharp wit, political engagement, and influential works such as "The Group."
  • A. Jessica Mitford
    Jessica Mitford was a British-born writer and investigative journalist best known for her muckraking exposés such as "The American Way of Death" and for her involvement in left-wing politics.
  • B. Elizabeth Hardwick
    Elizabeth Hardwick was an influential American literary critic, novelist, and co-founder of The New York Review of Books, renowned for her incisive essays and stylistic precision.
  • C. Dawn Powell
    Dawn Powell was an American novelist, playwright, and satirist known for her sharp, witty portrayals of New York City life in the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. Edith Willkie
    Edith Willkie was the wife of 1940 Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie and an American civic figure active in public and charitable affairs.
  • E. Jean Stafford
    Jean Stafford was an American novelist and short story writer known for her psychologically acute fiction and for winning the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
  • 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_69c688298a288190af3f285d57f76bbe completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d57f69cc8190bbd08a8d447e616f completed March 27, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c723ee0e94819095a678e1073869d5 completed March 28, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7254674008190972b4f8619b28776 completed March 28, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c725be2ad881908e97017baabbd854 completed March 28, 2026, 12:50 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:18 p.m.