Triple

T14212366
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Denis Johnson E352262 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Train Dreams
Train Dreams is a celebrated novella by Denis Johnson that portrays the hardscrabble life of a railroad laborer in the early 20th-century American West with spare, haunting prose.
E1085940 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: Train Dreams | Statement: [Denis Johnson, notableWork, Train Dreams]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Train Dreams
Context triple: [Denis Johnson, notableWork, Train Dreams]
  • A. House by the Railroad
    House by the Railroad is a 1925 painting by American realist artist Edward Hopper, depicting a solitary Victorian house beside railroad tracks and often interpreted as a symbol of modern isolation and alienation.
  • B. The Railroad Stories
    The Railroad Stories is a collection of Yiddish short stories by Sholem Aleichem that vividly portrays the lives, humor, and hardships of Eastern European Jewish travelers and small-town characters.
  • C. Call It Sleep
    Call It Sleep is a landmark 1934 novel by Henry Roth that portrays the inner life and struggles of a young Jewish immigrant boy growing up in New York City's Lower East Side.
  • D. The Vanishing American Hobo
    "The Vanishing American Hobo" is an essay by Jack Kerouac reflecting on the decline of the traditional American hobo and the changing nature of freedom and wandering in modern society.
  • E. Weekend in the Dust
    "Weekend in the Dust" is a track from the collaborative art-pop album *Love This Giant* by David Byrne and St. Vincent, showcasing their experimental blend of brass arrangements and offbeat songwriting.
  • 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: Train Dreams
Triple: [Denis Johnson, notableWork, Train Dreams]
Generated description
Train Dreams is a celebrated novella by Denis Johnson that portrays the hardscrabble life of a railroad laborer in the early 20th-century American West with spare, haunting prose.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Train Dreams
Target entity description: Train Dreams is a celebrated novella by Denis Johnson that portrays the hardscrabble life of a railroad laborer in the early 20th-century American West with spare, haunting prose.
  • A. House by the Railroad
    House by the Railroad is a 1925 painting by American realist artist Edward Hopper, depicting a solitary Victorian house beside railroad tracks and often interpreted as a symbol of modern isolation and alienation.
  • B. The Railroad Stories
    The Railroad Stories is a collection of Yiddish short stories by Sholem Aleichem that vividly portrays the lives, humor, and hardships of Eastern European Jewish travelers and small-town characters.
  • C. Call It Sleep
    Call It Sleep is a landmark 1934 novel by Henry Roth that portrays the inner life and struggles of a young Jewish immigrant boy growing up in New York City's Lower East Side.
  • D. The Vanishing American Hobo
    "The Vanishing American Hobo" is an essay by Jack Kerouac reflecting on the decline of the traditional American hobo and the changing nature of freedom and wandering in modern society.
  • E. Weekend in the Dust
    "Weekend in the Dust" is a track from the collaborative art-pop album *Love This Giant* by David Byrne and St. Vincent, showcasing their experimental blend of brass arrangements and offbeat songwriting.
  • 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.