Triple

T14891973
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Goodbye, Columbus E359773 entity
Predicate containsWork P2011 FINISHED
Object You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings
"You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings" is a short story by Philip Roth that appears in his collection *Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories*.
E1124713 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: You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings | Statement: [Goodbye, Columbus, containsWork, You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings
Context triple: [Goodbye, Columbus, containsWork, You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings]
  • A. Nothing But a Man
    Nothing But a Man is a 1964 American independent drama film that portrays the struggles of a Black railroad worker and his family in the racially segregated American South.
  • B. They Can't Take That Away from Me
    "They Can't Take That Away from Me" is a classic American popular song by George and Ira Gershwin, famously introduced by Fred Astaire and widely regarded as a jazz standard.
  • C. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
    "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" is a popular 1932 American standard, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler, that has been widely recorded by jazz and pop vocalists.
  • D. God Bless the Child
    "God Bless the Child" is a classic jazz and blues standard, co-written and famously performed by Billie Holiday, known for its poignant lyrics about financial independence and emotional resilience.
  • E. My Man’s Gone Now
    "My Man’s Gone Now" is a mournful aria from George Gershwin’s opera *Porgy and Bess*, sung by the character Serena as she laments her husband’s death.
  • 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: You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings
Triple: [Goodbye, Columbus, containsWork, You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings]
Generated description
"You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings" is a short story by Philip Roth that appears in his collection *Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings
Target entity description: "You Can’t Tell a Man by the Song He Sings" is a short story by Philip Roth that appears in his collection *Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories*.
  • A. Nothing But a Man
    Nothing But a Man is a 1964 American independent drama film that portrays the struggles of a Black railroad worker and his family in the racially segregated American South.
  • B. They Can't Take That Away from Me
    "They Can't Take That Away from Me" is a classic American popular song by George and Ira Gershwin, famously introduced by Fred Astaire and widely regarded as a jazz standard.
  • C. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
    "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" is a popular 1932 American standard, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler, that has been widely recorded by jazz and pop vocalists.
  • D. God Bless the Child
    "God Bless the Child" is a classic jazz and blues standard, co-written and famously performed by Billie Holiday, known for its poignant lyrics about financial independence and emotional resilience.
  • E. My Man’s Gone Now
    "My Man’s Gone Now" is a mournful aria from George Gershwin’s opera *Porgy and Bess*, sung by the character Serena as she laments her husband’s death.
  • 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_69d827980cbc8190a0c569ae3940a1d9 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded5f883288190af602633fa7d6860 completed April 15, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe6b65ac5c81908691de1161d07de0 completed May 8, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe6c68c46881909e7c748c0dff73d5 completed May 8, 2026, 11:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe6d1eea60819087ca2ebc7d0a8994 completed May 8, 2026, 11:09 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 2:10 a.m.