Triple

T8738294
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Gardner (British writer) E207438 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object A Complete State of Death
A Complete State of Death is a crime novel by British author John Gardner featuring espionage, murder, and psychological intrigue.
E755778 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: A Complete State of Death | Statement: [John Gardner (British writer), notableWork, A Complete State of Death]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Complete State of Death
Context triple: [John Gardner (British writer), notableWork, A Complete State of Death]
  • A. The Dead and the Living
    The Dead and the Living is a critically acclaimed poetry collection by Sharon Olds that explores themes of family, violence, and mortality in vivid, confessional verse.
  • B. Born with the Dead
    "Born with the Dead" is a celebrated science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of love, loss, and resurrection in a future where the dead can be technologically revived.
  • C. The Remains
    The Remains is an alias used by The Ramainz, a tribute band formed by former members of the Ramones to perform the iconic punk group's music.
  • D. Life-in-Death
    Life-in-Death is a supernatural female figure in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," symbolizing a fate worse than death by condemning the Mariner to endless suffering and wandering.
  • E. Murder by Death
    Murder by Death is a 1976 comedy-mystery film that parodies classic detective fiction, featuring an ensemble cast of famous sleuth archetypes invited to a sinister dinner party.
  • 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: A Complete State of Death
Triple: [John Gardner (British writer), notableWork, A Complete State of Death]
Generated description
A Complete State of Death is a crime novel by British author John Gardner featuring espionage, murder, and psychological intrigue.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Complete State of Death
Target entity description: A Complete State of Death is a crime novel by British author John Gardner featuring espionage, murder, and psychological intrigue.
  • A. The Dead and the Living
    The Dead and the Living is a critically acclaimed poetry collection by Sharon Olds that explores themes of family, violence, and mortality in vivid, confessional verse.
  • B. Born with the Dead
    "Born with the Dead" is a celebrated science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg that explores themes of love, loss, and resurrection in a future where the dead can be technologically revived.
  • C. The Remains
    The Remains is an alias used by The Ramainz, a tribute band formed by former members of the Ramones to perform the iconic punk group's music.
  • D. Life-in-Death
    Life-in-Death is a supernatural female figure in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," symbolizing a fate worse than death by condemning the Mariner to endless suffering and wandering.
  • E. Murder by Death
    Murder by Death is a 1976 comedy-mystery film that parodies classic detective fiction, featuring an ensemble cast of famous sleuth archetypes invited to a sinister dinner party.
  • 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_69ca835a03a081909d4d4cd01a18c9fb completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc5d470c8c81909ead395ef704c6ba completed March 31, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf42c9140081909f9c10560757c860 completed April 3, 2026, 4:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf43ead588819094089bea94c27207 completed April 3, 2026, 4:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf453fa3e4819082466c59649c2f35 completed April 3, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:38 p.m.