Triple

T17336358
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dan Simmons E420944 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Crook Factory
The Crook Factory is a historical espionage novel by Dan Simmons that fictionalizes Ernest Hemingway’s real-life involvement in running a makeshift spy ring in Cuba during World War II.
 E1263326 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: The Crook Factory | Statement: [Dan Simmons, notableWork, The Crook Factory]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Crook Factory
Context triple: [Dan Simmons, notableWork, The Crook Factory]
  • A. The Crooked Billet
    The Crooked Billet is a 1929 British mystery film featuring actor Malcolm Keen.
  • B. The Crooked Man
    The Crooked Man is a film featuring Irish actor Liam Cunningham, likely a thriller or horror project in which he plays a prominent role.
  • C. The Crooked Man
    The Crooked Man is a major crime boss and manipulative antagonist in the noir-inspired fairy-tale world of the video game *The Wolf Among Us*.
  • D. The Crooked Way
    The Crooked Way is a 1949 American film noir crime drama about an amnesiac war veteran drawn into a violent criminal underworld.
  • E. Crooks
    Crooks is the African American stable hand in John Steinbeck's novella "Of Mice and Men," whose isolation and experiences of racism highlight the themes of loneliness and social injustice.
  • 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: The Crook Factory
Triple: [Dan Simmons, notableWork, The Crook Factory]
Generated description
The Crook Factory is a historical espionage novel by Dan Simmons that fictionalizes Ernest Hemingway’s real-life involvement in running a makeshift spy ring in Cuba during World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Crook Factory
Target entity description: The Crook Factory is a historical espionage novel by Dan Simmons that fictionalizes Ernest Hemingway’s real-life involvement in running a makeshift spy ring in Cuba during World War II.
  • A. The Crooked Billet
    The Crooked Billet is a 1929 British mystery film featuring actor Malcolm Keen.
  • B. The Crooked Man
    The Crooked Man is a film featuring Irish actor Liam Cunningham, likely a thriller or horror project in which he plays a prominent role.
  • C. The Crooked Man
    The Crooked Man is a major crime boss and manipulative antagonist in the noir-inspired fairy-tale world of the video game *The Wolf Among Us*.
  • D. The Crooked Way
    The Crooked Way is a 1949 American film noir crime drama about an amnesiac war veteran drawn into a violent criminal underworld.
  • E. Crooks
    Crooks is the African American stable hand in John Steinbeck's novella "Of Mice and Men," whose isolation and experiences of racism highlight the themes of loneliness and social injustice.
  • 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_69d889d3adc881909319f1edb8d2a956 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e43a121aa081908a62fa59d3d28765 completed April 19, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a018c5474788190936840effee2a8f5 completed May 11, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a018d1601208190acd755618c6c939e completed May 11, 2026, 8:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a018e0400888190a4eb8fa418517ac5 completed May 11, 2026, 8:06 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:43 a.m.