Triple

T7390287
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Susan Sontag E170479 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Illness as Metaphor
Illness as Metaphor is a 1978 critical essay by Susan Sontag that examines how metaphorical language surrounding diseases like cancer and tuberculosis shapes cultural attitudes and stigmatizes the ill.
E662540 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: Illness as Metaphor | Statement: [Susan Sontag, notableWork, Illness as Metaphor]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Illness as Metaphor
Context triple: [Susan Sontag, notableWork, Illness as Metaphor]
  • A. The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath
    The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath is a posthumously published volume that gathers the complete poetic works of the American poet Sylvia Plath, showcasing her development from early writings to her most famous and final poems.
  • B. Life Is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962–1995
    Life Is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962–1995 is a poetry collection by Native American writer and scholar Paula Gunn Allen that spans over three decades of her work, exploring themes of identity, spirituality, and Indigenous experience.
  • C. I Sing the Body Electric
    "I Sing the Body Electric" is a celebrated free-verse poem by Walt Whitman that exalts the human body and soul as sacred, democratic, and inseparable aspects of the self.
  • D. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
    In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens is a collection of essays by Alice Walker that explores Black women's creativity, history, and resilience through literary criticism, biography, and personal reflection.
  • E. Milk and Honey
    Milk and Honey is a 1961 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, centered on romance and new beginnings among American tourists in the newly founded state of Israel.
  • 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: Illness as Metaphor
Triple: [Susan Sontag, notableWork, Illness as Metaphor]
Generated description
Illness as Metaphor is a 1978 critical essay by Susan Sontag that examines how metaphorical language surrounding diseases like cancer and tuberculosis shapes cultural attitudes and stigmatizes the ill.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Illness as Metaphor
Target entity description: Illness as Metaphor is a 1978 critical essay by Susan Sontag that examines how metaphorical language surrounding diseases like cancer and tuberculosis shapes cultural attitudes and stigmatizes the ill.
  • A. The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath
    The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath is a posthumously published volume that gathers the complete poetic works of the American poet Sylvia Plath, showcasing her development from early writings to her most famous and final poems.
  • B. Life Is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962–1995
    Life Is a Fatal Disease: Collected Poems 1962–1995 is a poetry collection by Native American writer and scholar Paula Gunn Allen that spans over three decades of her work, exploring themes of identity, spirituality, and Indigenous experience.
  • C. I Sing the Body Electric
    "I Sing the Body Electric" is a celebrated free-verse poem by Walt Whitman that exalts the human body and soul as sacred, democratic, and inseparable aspects of the self.
  • D. In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
    In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens is a collection of essays by Alice Walker that explores Black women's creativity, history, and resilience through literary criticism, biography, and personal reflection.
  • E. Milk and Honey
    Milk and Honey is a 1961 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman, centered on romance and new beginnings among American tourists in the newly founded state of Israel.
  • 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_69c68a5e2c9081909e713ce866e0060a completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f2216a5c8190a933b24fda4530d8 completed March 27, 2026, 9:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c810f2bff4819093b0082dec4ee773 completed March 28, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c814ff89708190a6a626ac204f8c6b completed March 28, 2026, 5:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c819174bc48190b5575818ccc2f144 completed March 28, 2026, 6:08 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:09 p.m.