Triple

T14212365
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Denis Johnson E352262 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Tree of Smoke
Tree of Smoke is a National Book Award–winning novel by Denis Johnson that explores the moral chaos and psychological fallout of the Vietnam War through interconnected characters and timelines.
E1085939 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: Tree of Smoke | Statement: [Denis Johnson, notableWork, Tree of Smoke]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tree of Smoke
Context triple: [Denis Johnson, notableWork, Tree of Smoke]
  • A. The Lowland
    The Lowland is a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores the intertwined lives of two brothers from Calcutta against the backdrop of political upheaval and family tragedy.
  • B. The Round House
    The Round House is a critically acclaimed novel by Louise Erdrich that explores a Native American boy’s quest for justice after a brutal crime on a North Dakota reservation.
  • C. The Round House
    The Round House is a notable historic building and local landmark in the village of Havering-atte-Bower in the London Borough of Havering, England.
  • D. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
    The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse is a novel by Louise Erdrich that follows a lifelong impostor priest serving on an Ojibwe reservation, blending spiritual mystery, identity, and Native American history.
  • E. Love Medicine
    Love Medicine is a critically acclaimed novel by Louise Erdrich that interweaves the lives of several Ojibwe families on a North Dakota reservation, often cited as a landmark work of the Native American Renaissance.
  • 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: Tree of Smoke
Triple: [Denis Johnson, notableWork, Tree of Smoke]
Generated description
Tree of Smoke is a National Book Award–winning novel by Denis Johnson that explores the moral chaos and psychological fallout of the Vietnam War through interconnected characters and timelines.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tree of Smoke
Target entity description: Tree of Smoke is a National Book Award–winning novel by Denis Johnson that explores the moral chaos and psychological fallout of the Vietnam War through interconnected characters and timelines.
  • A. The Lowland
    The Lowland is a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri that explores the intertwined lives of two brothers from Calcutta against the backdrop of political upheaval and family tragedy.
  • B. The Round House
    The Round House is a critically acclaimed novel by Louise Erdrich that explores a Native American boy’s quest for justice after a brutal crime on a North Dakota reservation.
  • C. The Round House
    The Round House is a notable historic building and local landmark in the village of Havering-atte-Bower in the London Borough of Havering, England.
  • D. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
    The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse is a novel by Louise Erdrich that follows a lifelong impostor priest serving on an Ojibwe reservation, blending spiritual mystery, identity, and Native American history.
  • E. Love Medicine
    Love Medicine is a critically acclaimed novel by Louise Erdrich that interweaves the lives of several Ojibwe families on a North Dakota reservation, often cited as a landmark work of the Native American Renaissance.
  • 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_69d8278a06e481908b5d6af0a8afe737 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de620dba0c8190bb77a1df10e1d3a7 completed April 14, 2026, 3:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd19574280819091bafd95a75983bf completed May 7, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd1a231cbc819083d38e25073892bf completed May 7, 2026, 11:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd1ada47788190afcf8078d76ef339 completed May 7, 2026, 11:06 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:05 a.m.