Triple
T9865439
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | George Horace Lorimer |
E239820
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entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son is a popular early 20th-century epistolary business and life-advice book presenting fictional letters from a Chicago meat-packing magnate to his son, offering practical wisdom on work, character, and success.
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E826125
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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: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son | Statement: [George Horace Lorimer, notableWork, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Context triple: [George Horace Lorimer, notableWork, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son]
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A.
Poor Richard's Almanack
Poor Richard's Almanack is a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin in colonial America, famous for its witty aphorisms, practical advice, and wide influence on early American culture.
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B.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a classic, unfinished memoir in which Franklin recounts his life, self-improvement philosophy, and rise from modest origins to statesman and inventor, offering insight into both his character and early American society.
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C.
Drapier's Letters
Drapier's Letters is a series of politically charged pamphlets by Jonathan Swift, written under the pseudonym "M. B. Drapier" to oppose the imposition of debased coinage in Ireland and assert Irish rights against English authority.
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D.
The Rise of Silas Lapham
The Rise of Silas Lapham is an 1885 realist novel by William Dean Howells that explores social class, moral integrity, and the American business ethic through the story of a self-made paint manufacturer in post–Civil War Boston.
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E.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman is an 18th-century collection of didactic letters in which Lord Chesterfield advises his illegitimate son on manners, education, and worldly success in polite society.
- 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: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Triple: [George Horace Lorimer, notableWork, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son]
Generated description
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son is a popular early 20th-century epistolary business and life-advice book presenting fictional letters from a Chicago meat-packing magnate to his son, offering practical wisdom on work, character, and success.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Target entity description: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son is a popular early 20th-century epistolary business and life-advice book presenting fictional letters from a Chicago meat-packing magnate to his son, offering practical wisdom on work, character, and success.
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A.
Poor Richard's Almanack
Poor Richard's Almanack is a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin in colonial America, famous for its witty aphorisms, practical advice, and wide influence on early American culture.
-
B.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a classic, unfinished memoir in which Franklin recounts his life, self-improvement philosophy, and rise from modest origins to statesman and inventor, offering insight into both his character and early American society.
-
C.
Drapier's Letters
Drapier's Letters is a series of politically charged pamphlets by Jonathan Swift, written under the pseudonym "M. B. Drapier" to oppose the imposition of debased coinage in Ireland and assert Irish rights against English authority.
-
D.
The Rise of Silas Lapham
The Rise of Silas Lapham is an 1885 realist novel by William Dean Howells that explores social class, moral integrity, and the American business ethic through the story of a self-made paint manufacturer in post–Civil War Boston.
-
E.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman is an 18th-century collection of didactic letters in which Lord Chesterfield advises his illegitimate son on manners, education, and worldly success in polite society.
- 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_69ca84e7506c819095cbde4ff16512bb |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cdb3ba7f288190a15ebec2cc3112c4 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 12:09 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d1e44dc0b8819082294a479299814e |
completed | April 5, 2026, 4:25 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69d1e4a42ab0819085150f033c2a650a |
completed | April 5, 2026, 4:27 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69d1e50b803081909cd93a602fb48514 |
completed | April 5, 2026, 4:28 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:36 p.m.