Triple

T8685165
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Hucksters E206138 entity
Predicate basedOnAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object Frederic Wakeman Sr.
Frederic Wakeman Sr. was an American novelist best known for his sharp, satirical depictions of postwar American business and advertising culture.
E751318 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: Frederic Wakeman Sr. | Statement: [The Hucksters, basedOnAuthor, Frederic Wakeman Sr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederic Wakeman Sr.
Context triple: [The Hucksters, basedOnAuthor, Frederic Wakeman Sr.]
  • A. Stanley G. Payne
    Stanley G. Payne is an American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on fascism, Spanish history, and European authoritarian regimes in the 20th century.
  • B. Geoffrey Lloyd
    Geoffrey Lloyd was a British Conservative politician who served in several ministerial roles in the mid-20th century, particularly in areas related to energy and industry.
  • C. Richard Pakenham
    Richard Pakenham was a 19th-century British diplomat best known for his role in negotiating Anglo-American boundary disputes, including the settlement of the Oregon boundary question.
  • D. Sir John H. Plumb
    Sir John H. Plumb was a prominent 20th-century British historian renowned for his influential works on 18th-century Britain and his role in shaping modern historical scholarship.
  • E. Kenneth H. Jackson
    Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
  • 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: Frederic Wakeman Sr.
Triple: [The Hucksters, basedOnAuthor, Frederic Wakeman Sr.]
Generated description
Frederic Wakeman Sr. was an American novelist best known for his sharp, satirical depictions of postwar American business and advertising culture.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frederic Wakeman Sr.
Target entity description: Frederic Wakeman Sr. was an American novelist best known for his sharp, satirical depictions of postwar American business and advertising culture.
  • A. Stanley G. Payne
    Stanley G. Payne is an American historian renowned for his influential scholarship on fascism, Spanish history, and European authoritarian regimes in the 20th century.
  • B. Geoffrey Lloyd
    Geoffrey Lloyd was a British Conservative politician who served in several ministerial roles in the mid-20th century, particularly in areas related to energy and industry.
  • C. Richard Pakenham
    Richard Pakenham was a 19th-century British diplomat best known for his role in negotiating Anglo-American boundary disputes, including the settlement of the Oregon boundary question.
  • D. Sir John H. Plumb
    Sir John H. Plumb was a prominent 20th-century British historian renowned for his influential works on 18th-century Britain and his role in shaping modern historical scholarship.
  • E. Kenneth H. Jackson
    Kenneth H. Jackson was a prominent 20th-century British linguist and historian renowned for his pioneering research on the history and development of the Celtic languages.
  • 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_69ca835379688190aa06b9d98e684d58 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc4aeae740819099093906ccc5f640 completed March 31, 2026, 10:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cef3cd888c81909fb1ece99988db36 completed April 2, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cef521010081908815779c0bd2aac9 completed April 2, 2026, 11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cef727ea088190bf40eaf5424ae864 completed April 2, 2026, 11:09 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:32 p.m.