Triple

T9393170
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Confessions of Nat Turner E226074 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object William Styron E226074 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: William Styron | Statement: [The Confessions of Nat Turner, author, William Styron]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Styron
Context triple: [The Confessions of Nat Turner, author, William Styron]
  • A. William Styron chosen
    William Styron was an American novelist known for his psychologically intense, stylistically rich works that confront themes of guilt, memory, and moral catastrophe.
  • 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. Thomas Wolfe
    Thomas Wolfe was a major early 20th-century American novelist best known for his sprawling, autobiographical works such as "Look Homeward, Angel."
  • E. Hubert Selby Jr.
    Hubert Selby Jr. was an American novelist and screenwriter known for his bleak, uncompromising portrayals of urban despair in works such as "Last Exit to Brooklyn" and "Requiem for a Dream."
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69ca842f7e3481908bf5bcf52e032dbd completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd510fec6481908b51c497744068c8 completed April 1, 2026, 5:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1221da00c8190ada494660735f741 completed April 4, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:45 p.m.