Triple

T8738310
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Gardner (British writer) E207438 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Burning of the Ships
The Burning of the Ships is a work by British novelist John Gardner, best known for its exploration of moral complexity and psychological depth.
E754782 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: The Burning of the Ships | Statement: [John Gardner (British writer), notableWork, The Burning of the Ships]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Burning of the Ships
Context triple: [John Gardner (British writer), notableWork, The Burning of the Ships]
  • A. Burning Your Boats
    Burning Your Boats is a posthumous collection of short stories by British writer Angela Carter, showcasing her darkly imaginative, feminist, and fantastical fiction across her career.
  • B. The Ship That Would Not Die
    The Ship That Would Not Die is the famed nickname of the World War II destroyer USS Laffey, renowned for surviving an intense and prolonged kamikaze and bomb attack off Okinawa.
  • C. Battle of the Masts
    The Battle of the Masts was a decisive 7th-century naval clash in which the early Muslim Rashidun Caliphate defeated the Byzantine fleet, marking a turning point in Mediterranean maritime power.
  • D. Blockade
    "Blockade" is a 1938 American drama film set during the Spanish Civil War, starring Henry Fonda and Madeleine Carroll and noted for its anti-war themes.
  • E. The Shipwreck
    The Shipwreck is a dramatic 18th-century maritime painting by French artist Joseph Vernet, renowned for its vivid depiction of storm-tossed seas and human struggle against nature.
  • 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: The Burning of the Ships
Triple: [John Gardner (British writer), notableWork, The Burning of the Ships]
Generated description
The Burning of the Ships is a work by British novelist John Gardner, best known for its exploration of moral complexity and psychological depth.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Burning of the Ships
Target entity description: The Burning of the Ships is a work by British novelist John Gardner, best known for its exploration of moral complexity and psychological depth.
  • A. Burning Your Boats
    Burning Your Boats is a posthumous collection of short stories by British writer Angela Carter, showcasing her darkly imaginative, feminist, and fantastical fiction across her career.
  • B. The Ship That Would Not Die
    The Ship That Would Not Die is the famed nickname of the World War II destroyer USS Laffey, renowned for surviving an intense and prolonged kamikaze and bomb attack off Okinawa.
  • C. Battle of the Masts
    The Battle of the Masts was a decisive 7th-century naval clash in which the early Muslim Rashidun Caliphate defeated the Byzantine fleet, marking a turning point in Mediterranean maritime power.
  • D. Blockade
    "Blockade" is a 1938 American drama film set during the Spanish Civil War, starring Henry Fonda and Madeleine Carroll and noted for its anti-war themes.
  • E. The Shipwreck
    The Shipwreck is a dramatic 18th-century maritime painting by French artist Joseph Vernet, renowned for its vivid depiction of storm-tossed seas and human struggle against nature.
  • 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_69cf42d5dd508190854fbbc2541aa819 completed April 3, 2026, 4:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf440051bc8190ad9d649150187932 completed April 3, 2026, 4:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf4473ee0081908ed22eb0d855d7dd completed April 3, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:38 p.m.