Triple

T6898489
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject W. Somerset Maugham E159432 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Cakes and Ale
Cakes and Ale is a satirical novel by W. Somerset Maugham that explores literary fame, hypocrisy, and social pretensions in early 20th-century England.
E626924 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: Cakes and Ale | Statement: [W. Somerset Maugham, notableWork, Cakes and Ale]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cakes and Ale
Context triple: [W. Somerset Maugham, notableWork, Cakes and Ale]
  • A. The Garden Party
    The Garden Party is an absurdist satirical play by Czech writer and future president Václav Havel that critiques bureaucratic conformity and the loss of individual identity under totalitarian systems.
  • B. The Golden Bowl
    The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James that intricately explores marriage, betrayal, and moral consciousness among wealthy Americans and Europeans.
  • C. In a Glass Darkly
    In a Glass Darkly is a classic 1872 collection of supernatural and gothic tales by Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu, best known for including the influential vampire novella "Carmilla."
  • D. The Whitsun Weddings
    The Whitsun Weddings is a celebrated poetry collection by Philip Larkin that captures postwar English life through observant, often melancholic reflections on ordinary experiences and relationships.
  • E. The Mayor of Casterbridge
    The Mayor of Casterbridge is a classic 1886 novel by Thomas Hardy that traces the tragic rise and fall of Michael Henchard, a flawed grain merchant in a fictional Wessex town.
  • 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: Cakes and Ale
Triple: [W. Somerset Maugham, notableWork, Cakes and Ale]
Generated description
Cakes and Ale is a satirical novel by W. Somerset Maugham that explores literary fame, hypocrisy, and social pretensions in early 20th-century England.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cakes and Ale
Target entity description: Cakes and Ale is a satirical novel by W. Somerset Maugham that explores literary fame, hypocrisy, and social pretensions in early 20th-century England.
  • A. The Garden Party
    The Garden Party is an absurdist satirical play by Czech writer and future president Václav Havel that critiques bureaucratic conformity and the loss of individual identity under totalitarian systems.
  • B. The Golden Bowl
    The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James that intricately explores marriage, betrayal, and moral consciousness among wealthy Americans and Europeans.
  • C. In a Glass Darkly
    In a Glass Darkly is a classic 1872 collection of supernatural and gothic tales by Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu, best known for including the influential vampire novella "Carmilla."
  • D. The Whitsun Weddings
    The Whitsun Weddings is a celebrated poetry collection by Philip Larkin that captures postwar English life through observant, often melancholic reflections on ordinary experiences and relationships.
  • E. The Mayor of Casterbridge
    The Mayor of Casterbridge is a classic 1886 novel by Thomas Hardy that traces the tragic rise and fall of Michael Henchard, a flawed grain merchant in a fictional Wessex town.
  • 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_69c6883822e0819091e321526f20ae0a completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d95d67448190857f36b8115b03f6 completed March 27, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c748eb23888190bca6e42dc03ab31b completed March 28, 2026, 3:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c749b9f4048190b7f8564f804e1231 completed March 28, 2026, 3:23 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c74a8b5af88190a60782e247129d1a completed March 28, 2026, 3:27 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:24 p.m.