Triple

T6828202
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Paul Auster E157067 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Man in the Dark
Man in the Dark is a 2008 metafictional novel by Paul Auster that intertwines political dystopia with a grieving critic’s nighttime imaginings about war, loss, and alternate realities.
E622133 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: Man in the Dark | Statement: [Paul Auster, notableWork, Man in the Dark]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Man in the Dark
Context triple: [Paul Auster, notableWork, Man in the Dark]
  • A. Door into the Dark
    Door into the Dark is a 1969 poetry collection by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that deepens his exploration of rural life, memory, and identity through richly textured, earthy verse.
  • B. Out of the Dark
    Out of the Dark is a collection of essays by Helen Keller in which she reflects on socialism, social justice, and her political beliefs.
  • C. Footsteps in the Dark
    "Footsteps in the Dark" is a smooth, soulful R&B ballad by The Isley Brothers, best known for its mellow groove and for being heavily sampled in later hip-hop music.
  • D. Underground Man
    Underground Man is the bitter, introspective, and self-contradictory protagonist of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella "Notes from Underground," often seen as an early embodiment of existential anti-heroism.
  • E. In the Dark
    "In the Dark" is a 1987 studio album by the Grateful Dead that became their biggest commercial success, featuring the hit single "Touch of Grey."
  • 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: Man in the Dark
Triple: [Paul Auster, notableWork, Man in the Dark]
Generated description
Man in the Dark is a 2008 metafictional novel by Paul Auster that intertwines political dystopia with a grieving critic’s nighttime imaginings about war, loss, and alternate realities.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Man in the Dark
Target entity description: Man in the Dark is a 2008 metafictional novel by Paul Auster that intertwines political dystopia with a grieving critic’s nighttime imaginings about war, loss, and alternate realities.
  • A. Door into the Dark
    Door into the Dark is a 1969 poetry collection by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that deepens his exploration of rural life, memory, and identity through richly textured, earthy verse.
  • B. Out of the Dark
    Out of the Dark is a collection of essays by Helen Keller in which she reflects on socialism, social justice, and her political beliefs.
  • C. Footsteps in the Dark
    "Footsteps in the Dark" is a smooth, soulful R&B ballad by The Isley Brothers, best known for its mellow groove and for being heavily sampled in later hip-hop music.
  • D. Underground Man
    Underground Man is the bitter, introspective, and self-contradictory protagonist of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella "Notes from Underground," often seen as an early embodiment of existential anti-heroism.
  • E. In the Dark
    "In the Dark" is a 1987 studio album by the Grateful Dead that became their biggest commercial success, featuring the hit single "Touch of Grey."
  • 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_69c6882a5b5c8190917a7db9ed36bad1 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d6254bd88190a2a424537c2c12e2 completed March 27, 2026, 7:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c723f49bdc8190af39b34dbaf3f0c9 completed March 28, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c724d7f0308190abb494ea663ceeb9 completed March 28, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c72568866c8190bf88a02e566d5c3a completed March 28, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:18 p.m.