Triple
T14065359
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Louis D. Rubin Jr. |
E338454
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object |
William Elliott Shoots a Bear: Essays on the Southern Literary Imagination
"William Elliott Shoots a Bear: Essays on the Southern Literary Imagination" is a collection of critical essays by Louis D. Rubin Jr. exploring themes, authors, and traditions central to Southern literature and its distinctive cultural identity.
|
E1077257
|
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: William Elliott Shoots a Bear: Essays on the Southern Literary Imagination | Statement: [Louis D. Rubin Jr., notableWork, William Elliott Shoots a Bear: Essays on the Southern Literary Imagination]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Elliott Shoots a Bear: Essays on the Southern Literary Imagination Context triple: [Louis D. Rubin Jr., notableWork, William Elliott Shoots a Bear: Essays on the Southern Literary Imagination]
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A.
A Letter from the South
"A Letter from the South" is an essay by James Baldwin that reflects on race, history, and the Black experience in the American South.
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B.
The Portable Faulkner
The Portable Faulkner is a 1946 anthology edited by Malcolm Cowley that presents a curated selection of William Faulkner’s fiction, helping to establish his reputation and highlight the interconnected world of his Yoknapatawpha County stories.
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C.
Tell Me a Tale: A Novel of the Old South
"Tell Me a Tale: A Novel of the Old South" is a historical novel by James McEachin that explores life, race, and identity in the American South before and during the Civil War.
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D.
Suttree
Suttree is a darkly comic, richly detailed novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows the drifting life of Cornelius Suttree along the Tennessee River in 1950s Knoxville.
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E.
The Ballad of the Student in the South
The Ballad of the Student in the South is a poem by early 20th-century British writer James Elroy Flecker, reflecting his characteristic romantic and lyrical style.
- 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: William Elliott Shoots a Bear: Essays on the Southern Literary Imagination Triple: [Louis D. Rubin Jr., notableWork, William Elliott Shoots a Bear: Essays on the Southern Literary Imagination]
Generated description
"William Elliott Shoots a Bear: Essays on the Southern Literary Imagination" is a collection of critical essays by Louis D. Rubin Jr. exploring themes, authors, and traditions central to Southern literature and its distinctive cultural identity.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Elliott Shoots a Bear: Essays on the Southern Literary Imagination Target entity description: "William Elliott Shoots a Bear: Essays on the Southern Literary Imagination" is a collection of critical essays by Louis D. Rubin Jr. exploring themes, authors, and traditions central to Southern literature and its distinctive cultural identity.
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A.
A Letter from the South
"A Letter from the South" is an essay by James Baldwin that reflects on race, history, and the Black experience in the American South.
-
B.
The Portable Faulkner
The Portable Faulkner is a 1946 anthology edited by Malcolm Cowley that presents a curated selection of William Faulkner’s fiction, helping to establish his reputation and highlight the interconnected world of his Yoknapatawpha County stories.
-
C.
Tell Me a Tale: A Novel of the Old South
"Tell Me a Tale: A Novel of the Old South" is a historical novel by James McEachin that explores life, race, and identity in the American South before and during the Civil War.
-
D.
Suttree
Suttree is a darkly comic, richly detailed novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows the drifting life of Cornelius Suttree along the Tennessee River in 1950s Knoxville.
-
E.
The Ballad of the Student in the South
The Ballad of the Student in the South is a poem by early 20th-century British writer James Elroy Flecker, reflecting his characteristic romantic and lyrical style.
- 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_69d81c67ba6c819091935650dfb3b895 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de5689c7f48190a47ca94eaa8a9ef9 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 3 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fcb669111081909ccd167f41571a00 |
completed | May 7, 2026, 3:57 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69fcc17d16008190bfec11ba0c229aae |
completed | May 7, 2026, 4:44 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69fcc1fe9bb0819098aa2655330569cb |
completed | May 7, 2026, 4:46 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:21 p.m.