Triple

T7827121
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Sedaris E181274 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002)
Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002) is a published collection of David Sedaris’s personal diary entries spanning 25 years, offering candid, humorous, and often poignant glimpses into his life and development as a writer.
E698444 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: Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002) | Statement: [David Sedaris, notableWork, Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002)
Context triple: [David Sedaris, notableWork, Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002)]
  • A. Theft: A Love Story
    Theft: A Love Story is a darkly comic novel by Australian author Peter Carey that explores art, authenticity, and betrayal through the intertwined lives of a disgraced painter and his mentally disabled brother.
  • B. Dispatches from Elsewhere
    Dispatches from Elsewhere is a surreal, character-driven anthology-style television series that blends mystery, whimsy, and emotional drama as ordinary people are drawn into an elaborate, reality-bending game.
  • C. Fugitive Pieces
    Fugitive Pieces is a 2007 drama film adaptation of Anne Michaels’ novel, exploring memory, loss, and the lasting impact of the Holocaust through the life of a rescued Polish boy.
  • D. The Separate Notebooks
    The Separate Notebooks is a poetry collection by Nobel Prize–winning Polish poet Czesław Miłosz that reflects on history, memory, and moral responsibility in the 20th century.
  • E. The Man Who Found Himself
    The Man Who Found Himself is an early 20th-century American silent film drama produced by the Vitagraph Company of America.
  • 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: Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002)
Triple: [David Sedaris, notableWork, Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002)]
Generated description
Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002) is a published collection of David Sedaris’s personal diary entries spanning 25 years, offering candid, humorous, and often poignant glimpses into his life and development as a writer.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002)
Target entity description: Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002) is a published collection of David Sedaris’s personal diary entries spanning 25 years, offering candid, humorous, and often poignant glimpses into his life and development as a writer.
  • A. Theft: A Love Story
    Theft: A Love Story is a darkly comic novel by Australian author Peter Carey that explores art, authenticity, and betrayal through the intertwined lives of a disgraced painter and his mentally disabled brother.
  • B. Dispatches from Elsewhere
    Dispatches from Elsewhere is a surreal, character-driven anthology-style television series that blends mystery, whimsy, and emotional drama as ordinary people are drawn into an elaborate, reality-bending game.
  • C. Fugitive Pieces
    Fugitive Pieces is a 2007 drama film adaptation of Anne Michaels’ novel, exploring memory, loss, and the lasting impact of the Holocaust through the life of a rescued Polish boy.
  • D. The Separate Notebooks
    The Separate Notebooks is a poetry collection by Nobel Prize–winning Polish poet Czesław Miłosz that reflects on history, memory, and moral responsibility in the 20th century.
  • E. The Man Who Found Himself
    The Man Who Found Himself is an early 20th-century American silent film drama produced by the Vitagraph Company of America.
  • 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_69ca8282ccec819083c48efb72d21cf9 completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb04a7f3b8819080f8a8283d6118fb completed March 30, 2026, 11:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb5a797ee881908068ba7346042756 completed March 31, 2026, 5:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb5ded0284819086c40a379b52a5bd completed March 31, 2026, 5:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cb764973f88190964f91ee7e3fdc06 completed March 31, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:43 p.m.