Triple

T823992
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Scribner's Sons E17811 entity
Predicate notableAuthor P4290 FINISHED
Object Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe was a major early 20th-century American novelist best known for his sprawling, autobiographical works such as "Look Homeward, Angel."
E101966 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: Thomas Wolfe | Statement: [Charles Scribner's Sons, notableAuthor, Thomas Wolfe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Wolfe
Context triple: [Charles Scribner's Sons, notableAuthor, Thomas Wolfe]
  • A. Carson McCullers
    Carson McCullers was an American novelist and short story writer known for her haunting explorations of loneliness, identity, and the human condition in the mid-20th-century American South.
  • B. Richard Yates
    Richard Yates was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his bleak, incisive portrayals of mid-20th-century suburban disillusionment, particularly in his novel "Revolutionary Road."
  • C. Richard Yates
    Richard Yates was an American politician who served as the Civil War–era governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. senator.
  • D. William Faulkner
    William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize–winning American novelist and short-story writer renowned for his complex narratives and pioneering use of stream of consciousness, particularly in works set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
  • E. Truman Capote
    Truman Capote was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist best known for works like "In Cold Blood" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's," which helped pioneer the true crime genre and cemented his status as a major literary figure of the 20th century.
  • 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: Thomas Wolfe
Triple: [Charles Scribner's Sons, notableAuthor, Thomas Wolfe]
Generated description
Thomas Wolfe was a major early 20th-century American novelist best known for his sprawling, autobiographical works such as "Look Homeward, Angel."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Wolfe
Target entity description: Thomas Wolfe was a major early 20th-century American novelist best known for his sprawling, autobiographical works such as "Look Homeward, Angel."
  • A. Carson McCullers
    Carson McCullers was an American novelist and short story writer known for her haunting explorations of loneliness, identity, and the human condition in the mid-20th-century American South.
  • B. Richard Yates
    Richard Yates was an American politician who served as the Civil War–era governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. senator.
  • C. Richard Yates
    Richard Yates was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his bleak, incisive portrayals of mid-20th-century suburban disillusionment, particularly in his novel "Revolutionary Road."
  • D. William Faulkner
    William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize–winning American novelist and short-story writer renowned for his complex narratives and pioneering use of stream of consciousness, particularly in works set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
  • E. Truman Capote
    Truman Capote was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist best known for works like "In Cold Blood" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's," which helped pioneer the true crime genre and cemented his status as a major literary figure of the 20th century.
  • 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_69a4937c9c188190aaa216f6b466f452 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ab7d3984819089aefbf12d3b3c2c completed March 1, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7a3b6f0a0819086f8789773f8251e completed March 4, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7a51e0420819092f792ce0b5e69d3 completed March 4, 2026, 3:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7a5b041848190bfa91737c71c217c completed March 4, 2026, 3:23 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.