Triple

T1280865
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Max Shulman E27320 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Potatoes Are Cheaper
Potatoes Are Cheaper is a humorous novel by American writer Max Shulman, known for its satirical take on love, ambition, and postwar American life.
E146161 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: Potatoes Are Cheaper | Statement: [Max Shulman, notableWork, Potatoes Are Cheaper]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Potatoes Are Cheaper
Context triple: [Max Shulman, notableWork, Potatoes Are Cheaper]
  • A. Mashed Potato Time
    "Mashed Potato Time" is a 1962 dance song popularized by Dee Dee Sharp that helped popularize the Mashed Potato dance craze in early 1960s pop music.
  • B. The Potato Planters
    The Potato Planters is a realist painting by Jean-François Millet depicting rural peasants laboring in the fields, emblematic of his focus on the dignity and hardship of peasant life.
  • C. Salo
    Salo is a town in southwestern Finland known for its electronics industry history and location along the Salo River.
  • D. The Diet
    The Diet is Japan’s bicameral national legislature, consisting of the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors, responsible for making laws and selecting the Prime Minister.
  • E. Grits
    Grits is a comic character in the 1858 American play "Our American Cousin," known for contributing to the play’s broad humor and farcical situations.
  • 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: Potatoes Are Cheaper
Triple: [Max Shulman, notableWork, Potatoes Are Cheaper]
Generated description
Potatoes Are Cheaper is a humorous novel by American writer Max Shulman, known for its satirical take on love, ambition, and postwar American life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Potatoes Are Cheaper
Target entity description: Potatoes Are Cheaper is a humorous novel by American writer Max Shulman, known for its satirical take on love, ambition, and postwar American life.
  • A. Mashed Potato Time
    "Mashed Potato Time" is a 1962 dance song popularized by Dee Dee Sharp that helped popularize the Mashed Potato dance craze in early 1960s pop music.
  • B. The Potato Planters
    The Potato Planters is a realist painting by Jean-François Millet depicting rural peasants laboring in the fields, emblematic of his focus on the dignity and hardship of peasant life.
  • C. Salo
    Salo is a town in southwestern Finland known for its electronics industry history and location along the Salo River.
  • D. The Diet
    The Diet is Japan’s bicameral national legislature, consisting of the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors, responsible for making laws and selecting the Prime Minister.
  • E. Grits
    Grits is a comic character in the 1858 American play "Our American Cousin," known for contributing to the play’s broad humor and farcical situations.
  • 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_69a496d3710c8190955dee8bc0dacb50 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c094eb4881909a33061339f91190 completed March 1, 2026, 10:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aca2fb746881909ac7a8dd672fc939 completed March 7, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aca3752a3c81908bd6d9744ad5f5a2 completed March 7, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aca3e44bf481908c5726adddc4b428 completed March 7, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.