Triple
T13567005
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Rick Smolan |
E324062
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Passage to Vietnam
Passage to Vietnam is a photographic book and multimedia project by photojournalist Rick Smolan that documents everyday life across Vietnam during a period of rapid change in the 1990s.
|
E1048182
|
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: Passage to Vietnam | Statement: [Rick Smolan, notableWork, Passage to Vietnam]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Passage to Vietnam Context triple: [Rick Smolan, notableWork, Passage to Vietnam]
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A.
Back in Vietnam
"Back in Vietnam" is a song by Lenny Kravitz featured on his 2007 album *It Is Time for a Love Revolution*.
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B.
North Vietnam prison camps
North Vietnam prison camps were notorious detention facilities used during the Vietnam War to hold and harshly interrogate American prisoners of war and other captives under brutal conditions.
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C.
Tonkin
Tonkin was a historical region in northern Vietnam, centered around Hanoi, that became a French protectorate and key part of colonial French Indochina.
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D.
Chu Lai, South Vietnam
Chu Lai, South Vietnam was a major U.S. Marine Corps base and coastal military area used as a strategic staging ground during the Vietnam War.
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E.
Tonkin Highway
Tonkin Highway is a major arterial road in Perth, Western Australia, forming part of the city’s ring road network and linking key northern and southern suburbs.
- 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: Passage to Vietnam Triple: [Rick Smolan, notableWork, Passage to Vietnam]
Generated description
Passage to Vietnam is a photographic book and multimedia project by photojournalist Rick Smolan that documents everyday life across Vietnam during a period of rapid change in the 1990s.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Passage to Vietnam Target entity description: Passage to Vietnam is a photographic book and multimedia project by photojournalist Rick Smolan that documents everyday life across Vietnam during a period of rapid change in the 1990s.
-
A.
Back in Vietnam
"Back in Vietnam" is a song by Lenny Kravitz featured on his 2007 album *It Is Time for a Love Revolution*.
-
B.
North Vietnam prison camps
North Vietnam prison camps were notorious detention facilities used during the Vietnam War to hold and harshly interrogate American prisoners of war and other captives under brutal conditions.
-
C.
Tonkin
Tonkin was a historical region in northern Vietnam, centered around Hanoi, that became a French protectorate and key part of colonial French Indochina.
-
D.
Chu Lai, South Vietnam
Chu Lai, South Vietnam was a major U.S. Marine Corps base and coastal military area used as a strategic staging ground during the Vietnam War.
-
E.
Tonkin Highway
Tonkin Highway is a major arterial road in Perth, Western Australia, forming part of the city’s ring road network and linking key northern and southern suburbs.
- 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_69d8076830b48190910a902bae5888e2 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69dbb00e0188819094fde44f85adb69c |
completed | April 12, 2026, 2:45 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f76bb3d77c8190a7af2ee7e9b6748a |
completed | May 3, 2026, 3:37 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f77640b5308190aaa50e8d5d871832 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 4:22 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f7791add908190af69b23a54eb7560 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 4:34 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:48 p.m.