Triple

T17336359
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dan Simmons E420944 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Hardcase
Hardcase is a crime novel by Dan Simmons that follows a tough ex-cop turned private investigator drawn into a violent and morally complex case.
 E1263327 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: Hardcase | Statement: [Dan Simmons, notableWork, Hardcase]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hardcase
Context triple: [Dan Simmons, notableWork, Hardcase]
  • A. Tiffany Case
    Tiffany Case is a fictional diamond smuggler and Bond girl who appears as a major character in Ian Fleming’s James Bond story "Diamonds Are Forever."
  • B. Housse
    Housse is a village in the municipality of Blegny in the province of Liège, Belgium.
  • C. Basket Case
    "Basket Case" is a 1994 punk rock song by Green Day, known as one of their breakthrough hits from the album *Dookie* and a defining track of 1990s pop-punk.
  • D. Cassetti
    Cassetti is the notorious gangster and child kidnapper from Agatha Christie's novel "Murder on the Orient Express," who operates under the alias Samuel Ratchett.
  • E. Leather Head
    Leather Head is a track by the artist Home Body, likely featuring their characteristic experimental electronic and indie-pop sound.
  • 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: Hardcase
Triple: [Dan Simmons, notableWork, Hardcase]
Generated description
Hardcase is a crime novel by Dan Simmons that follows a tough ex-cop turned private investigator drawn into a violent and morally complex case.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hardcase
Target entity description: Hardcase is a crime novel by Dan Simmons that follows a tough ex-cop turned private investigator drawn into a violent and morally complex case.
  • A. Tiffany Case
    Tiffany Case is a fictional diamond smuggler and Bond girl who appears as a major character in Ian Fleming’s James Bond story "Diamonds Are Forever."
  • B. Housse
    Housse is a village in the municipality of Blegny in the province of Liège, Belgium.
  • C. Basket Case
    "Basket Case" is a 1994 punk rock song by Green Day, known as one of their breakthrough hits from the album *Dookie* and a defining track of 1990s pop-punk.
  • D. Cassetti
    Cassetti is the notorious gangster and child kidnapper from Agatha Christie's novel "Murder on the Orient Express," who operates under the alias Samuel Ratchett.
  • E. Leather Head
    Leather Head is a track by the artist Home Body, likely featuring their characteristic experimental electronic and indie-pop sound.
  • 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.