Triple

T9102405
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A River Runs Through It E218390 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object Norman Maclean
Norman Maclean was an American author and scholar best known for his semi-autobiographical novella collection "A River Runs Through It and Other Stories," which reflects his deep ties to Montana, fly fishing, and family.
E778239 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: Norman Maclean | Statement: [A River Runs Through It, basedOn, Norman Maclean]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman Maclean
Context triple: [A River Runs Through It, basedOn, Norman Maclean]
  • A. Lewis Gaylord Clark
    Lewis Gaylord Clark was a 19th-century American editor and writer best known for shaping literary culture through his long tenure at the influential New York periodical The Knickerbocker magazine.
  • B. Walter Van Tilburg Clark
    Walter Van Tilburg Clark was an American author best known for his classic Western novel "The Ox-Bow Incident," which explores themes of mob justice and moral responsibility.
  • C. Sherwood Anderson
    Sherwood Anderson was an American modernist writer best known for his influential short story cycle "Winesburg, Ohio," which deeply explored small-town life and psychological realism.
  • D. J. Farrell MacDonald
    J. Farrell MacDonald was an American character actor and occasional director known for his prolific work in early Hollywood cinema, particularly in silent films and early talkies.
  • E. Conrad Richter
    Conrad Richter was an American novelist best known for his historical fiction depicting early American frontier life, including works such as "The Trees," "The Fields," and the Pulitzer Prize–winning "The Town."
  • 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: Norman Maclean
Triple: [A River Runs Through It, basedOn, Norman Maclean]
Generated description
Norman Maclean was an American author and scholar best known for his semi-autobiographical novella collection "A River Runs Through It and Other Stories," which reflects his deep ties to Montana, fly fishing, and family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman Maclean
Target entity description: Norman Maclean was an American author and scholar best known for his semi-autobiographical novella collection "A River Runs Through It and Other Stories," which reflects his deep ties to Montana, fly fishing, and family.
  • A. Lewis Gaylord Clark
    Lewis Gaylord Clark was a 19th-century American editor and writer best known for shaping literary culture through his long tenure at the influential New York periodical The Knickerbocker magazine.
  • B. Walter Van Tilburg Clark
    Walter Van Tilburg Clark was an American author best known for his classic Western novel "The Ox-Bow Incident," which explores themes of mob justice and moral responsibility.
  • C. Sherwood Anderson
    Sherwood Anderson was an American modernist writer best known for his influential short story cycle "Winesburg, Ohio," which deeply explored small-town life and psychological realism.
  • D. J. Farrell MacDonald
    J. Farrell MacDonald was an American character actor and occasional director known for his prolific work in early Hollywood cinema, particularly in silent films and early talkies.
  • E. Conrad Richter
    Conrad Richter was an American novelist best known for his historical fiction depicting early American frontier life, including works such as "The Trees," "The Fields," and the Pulitzer Prize–winning "The Town."
  • 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_69ca83db7448819090d0a5de842ef2ac completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc9715d5188190bce68d095e10c2eb completed April 1, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0183677cc8190b3140278f4c6de9c completed April 3, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d019666cb08190b66298ff86a7e1af completed April 3, 2026, 7:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d01a700ce48190868d445bde2462dc completed April 3, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:15 p.m.