Triple

T14892009
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Pastoral E359774 entity
Predicate protagonist P268 FINISHED
Object Seymour "Swede" Levov
Seymour "Swede" Levov is a successful, seemingly all-American businessman whose life unravels amid political and social upheaval in Philip Roth’s novel American Pastoral.
E1124716 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: Seymour "Swede" Levov | Statement: [American Pastoral, protagonist, Seymour "Swede" Levov]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Seymour "Swede" Levov
Context triple: [American Pastoral, protagonist, Seymour "Swede" Levov]
  • A. Seymour Weiss
    Seymour Weiss was an American diplomat and foreign policy advisor known for his influential roles in U.S. national security and international affairs during the Cold War era.
  • B. Seymour Krelborn
    Seymour Krelborn is the meek, plant-loving florist’s assistant who becomes entangled with a man-eating plant in the musical and film "Little Shop of Horrors."
  • C. Hyman Hurwitz
    Hyman Hurwitz was a 19th-century Hebrew scholar and educator, known as the first Professor of Hebrew at University College London and for his influential works on Hebrew language and literature.
  • D. Seymour Horowitz
    Seymour Horowitz, better known professionally as Cy Howard, was an American producer, director, and writer noted for his work in radio, film, and television comedy.
  • E. Hyman Bloom
    Hyman Bloom was a Latvian-born American painter known for his expressive, often mystical figurative works and his influential role in the mid-20th-century Boston Expressionist movement.
  • 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: Seymour "Swede" Levov
Triple: [American Pastoral, protagonist, Seymour "Swede" Levov]
Generated description
Seymour "Swede" Levov is a successful, seemingly all-American businessman whose life unravels amid political and social upheaval in Philip Roth’s novel American Pastoral.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Seymour "Swede" Levov
Target entity description: Seymour "Swede" Levov is a successful, seemingly all-American businessman whose life unravels amid political and social upheaval in Philip Roth’s novel American Pastoral.
  • A. Seymour Weiss
    Seymour Weiss was an American diplomat and foreign policy advisor known for his influential roles in U.S. national security and international affairs during the Cold War era.
  • B. Seymour Krelborn
    Seymour Krelborn is the meek, plant-loving florist’s assistant who becomes entangled with a man-eating plant in the musical and film "Little Shop of Horrors."
  • C. Hyman Hurwitz
    Hyman Hurwitz was a 19th-century Hebrew scholar and educator, known as the first Professor of Hebrew at University College London and for his influential works on Hebrew language and literature.
  • D. Seymour Horowitz
    Seymour Horowitz, better known professionally as Cy Howard, was an American producer, director, and writer noted for his work in radio, film, and television comedy.
  • E. Hyman Bloom
    Hyman Bloom was a Latvian-born American painter known for his expressive, often mystical figurative works and his influential role in the mid-20th-century Boston Expressionist movement.
  • 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.