Triple

T6976284
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Modest Mouse E161724 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank is a 2007 indie rock album by Modest Mouse that features a more expansive, polished sound and includes former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr.
E633807 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: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank | Statement: [Modest Mouse, notableWork, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Context triple: [Modest Mouse, notableWork, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank]
  • A. The Drowned and the Saved
    The Drowned and the Saved is Primo Levi’s final, reflective work of essays examining the moral, psychological, and historical complexities of the Holocaust and its survivors.
  • B. The Ship That Would Not Die
    The Ship That Would Not Die is the famed nickname of the World War II destroyer USS Laffey, renowned for surviving an intense and prolonged kamikaze and bomb attack off Okinawa.
  • C. Overboard
    Overboard is a 1987 romantic comedy film starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, known for its amnesia-based plot and lighthearted take on class differences and family.
  • D. When We Went to See the End of the World
    "When We Went to See the End of the World" is a short story by Neil Gaiman that blends dark fantasy and surrealism to explore human relationships and apocalyptic anxieties.
  • E. The Glorious Dead
    "The Glorious Dead" is a solemn commemorative phrase honoring those who lost their lives in war, famously inscribed on the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London.
  • 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: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Triple: [Modest Mouse, notableWork, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank]
Generated description
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank is a 2007 indie rock album by Modest Mouse that features a more expansive, polished sound and includes former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Target entity description: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank is a 2007 indie rock album by Modest Mouse that features a more expansive, polished sound and includes former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr.
  • A. The Drowned and the Saved
    The Drowned and the Saved is Primo Levi’s final, reflective work of essays examining the moral, psychological, and historical complexities of the Holocaust and its survivors.
  • B. The Ship That Would Not Die
    The Ship That Would Not Die is the famed nickname of the World War II destroyer USS Laffey, renowned for surviving an intense and prolonged kamikaze and bomb attack off Okinawa.
  • C. Overboard
    Overboard is a 1987 romantic comedy film starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, known for its amnesia-based plot and lighthearted take on class differences and family.
  • D. When We Went to See the End of the World
    "When We Went to See the End of the World" is a short story by Neil Gaiman that blends dark fantasy and surrealism to explore human relationships and apocalyptic anxieties.
  • E. The Glorious Dead
    "The Glorious Dead" is a solemn commemorative phrase honoring those who lost their lives in war, famously inscribed on the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London.
  • 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_69c68854a0d88190bc0bf82263f1afce completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6db677bbc8190a084b6951e5c3182 completed March 27, 2026, 7:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c761ab41b0819084d26c10bb763f8e completed March 28, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c763b0d5cc8190bdd82fc8a5a95ef1 completed March 28, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c76435fd2c819099143ea12f21d095 completed March 28, 2026, 5:16 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:31 p.m.