Triple

T13710754
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Buffalo Mailer E328763 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Big Empty
The Big Empty is a work by American writer and actor John Buffalo Mailer, known for its exploration of contemporary social and political themes.
E1056569 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: The Big Empty | Statement: [John Buffalo Mailer, notableWork, The Big Empty]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Big Empty
Context triple: [John Buffalo Mailer, notableWork, The Big Empty]
  • A. The Big Empty
    The Big Empty is a 2003 indie mystery-comedy film that blends deadpan humor with surreal, desert-set noir elements.
  • B. Big Empty
    "Big Empty" is a popular grunge-influenced rock song by Stone Temple Pilots, best known for its moody atmosphere and prominent appearance on the soundtrack of the film *The Crow* as well as their album *Purple*.
  • C. The Big Nowhere
    The Big Nowhere is a dark, complex crime novel by James Ellroy set in 1950s Los Angeles, blending police procedural, political conspiracy, and noir elements.
  • D. The Empty Beach
    The Empty Beach is an Australian crime thriller film adapted from Peter Corris's novel, following a Sydney private investigator drawn into a mysterious missing-person case.
  • E. The Hollow Places
    The Hollow Places is a contemporary horror novel by T. Kingfisher that blends cosmic dread, dark humor, and portal fantasy as a woman discovers a terrifying alternate world hidden behind a wall in her uncle’s museum.
  • 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: The Big Empty
Triple: [John Buffalo Mailer, notableWork, The Big Empty]
Generated description
The Big Empty is a work by American writer and actor John Buffalo Mailer, known for its exploration of contemporary social and political themes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Big Empty
Target entity description: The Big Empty is a work by American writer and actor John Buffalo Mailer, known for its exploration of contemporary social and political themes.
  • A. The Big Empty
    The Big Empty is a 2003 indie mystery-comedy film that blends deadpan humor with surreal, desert-set noir elements.
  • B. Big Empty
    "Big Empty" is a popular grunge-influenced rock song by Stone Temple Pilots, best known for its moody atmosphere and prominent appearance on the soundtrack of the film *The Crow* as well as their album *Purple*.
  • C. The Big Nowhere
    The Big Nowhere is a dark, complex crime novel by James Ellroy set in 1950s Los Angeles, blending police procedural, political conspiracy, and noir elements.
  • D. The Empty Beach
    The Empty Beach is an Australian crime thriller film adapted from Peter Corris's novel, following a Sydney private investigator drawn into a mysterious missing-person case.
  • E. The Hollow Places
    The Hollow Places is a contemporary horror novel by T. Kingfisher that blends cosmic dread, dark humor, and portal fantasy as a woman discovers a terrifying alternate world hidden behind a wall in her uncle’s museum.
  • 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_69d80770b9bc81909f70c8c317d53cff completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dd43949e6c8190ae5e4fa119cde33a completed April 13, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f79d54a68081908df25edf6d5df362 completed May 3, 2026, 7:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f79e1a90408190936cb71e567e10aa completed May 3, 2026, 7:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f79ee74ea48190a4c753b12bb9190e completed May 3, 2026, 7:15 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:54 p.m.