Triple

T14323933
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Snow Falling on Cedars E355166 entity
Predicate authorOfSourceWork P2353 FINISHED
Object David Guterson
David Guterson is an American novelist and short story writer best known for his award-winning novel "Snow Falling on Cedars," which explores themes of memory, prejudice, and justice in the Pacific Northwest.
E1093777 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: David Guterson | Statement: [Snow Falling on Cedars, authorOfSourceWork, David Guterson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Guterson
Context triple: [Snow Falling on Cedars, authorOfSourceWork, David Guterson]
  • A. T.C. Boyle
    T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, stylistically inventive fiction and exploration of social and environmental themes.
  • B. Paul Harding
    Paul Harding is an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel "Tinkers."
  • C. Adam Johnson
    Adam Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his novel "The Orphan Master's Son," which explores life in North Korea.
  • D. Tobias Wolff
    Tobias Wolff is an American author and memoirist renowned for his autobiographical works and short stories exploring memory, identity, and moral ambiguity.
  • E. Denis Johnson
    Denis Johnson was an American writer acclaimed for his haunting, lyrical fiction and poetry, best known for works like "Jesus' Son" and the National Book Award–winning novel "Tree of Smoke."
  • 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: David Guterson
Triple: [Snow Falling on Cedars, authorOfSourceWork, David Guterson]
Generated description
David Guterson is an American novelist and short story writer best known for his award-winning novel "Snow Falling on Cedars," which explores themes of memory, prejudice, and justice in the Pacific Northwest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Guterson
Target entity description: David Guterson is an American novelist and short story writer best known for his award-winning novel "Snow Falling on Cedars," which explores themes of memory, prejudice, and justice in the Pacific Northwest.
  • A. T.C. Boyle
    T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, stylistically inventive fiction and exploration of social and environmental themes.
  • B. Paul Harding
    Paul Harding is an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel "Tinkers."
  • C. Adam Johnson
    Adam Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his novel "The Orphan Master's Son," which explores life in North Korea.
  • D. Tobias Wolff
    Tobias Wolff is an American author and memoirist renowned for his autobiographical works and short stories exploring memory, identity, and moral ambiguity.
  • E. Denis Johnson
    Denis Johnson was an American writer acclaimed for his haunting, lyrical fiction and poetry, best known for works like "Jesus' Son" and the National Book Award–winning novel "Tree of Smoke."
  • 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_69d8278fa2108190bc0d0e7939c1eb03 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de883d1de88190a1e2bf2f1b692197 completed April 14, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd468e263c81909d7261bcfd949579 completed May 8, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd4811e2808190b559d8348079ae8f completed May 8, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd48d827488190b4a494d4da64ba51 completed May 8, 2026, 2:22 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:13 a.m.