Triple
T17801211
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Maurice Walsh |
E444429
|
entity |
| Predicate | authorOf |
P4244
|
FINISHED |
| Object | The Small Dark Man |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Small Dark Man | Statement: [Maurice Walsh, authorOf, The Small Dark Man]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Small Dark Man Context triple: [Maurice Walsh, authorOf, The Small Dark Man]
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A.
The Small Dark Man
chosen
The Small Dark Man is a popular romantic adventure novel by Irish author Maurice Walsh, set in rural Ireland and known for its lively characters and dramatic storytelling.
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B.
The Dark Man
The Dark Man is a mysterious, malevolent figure who appears as a recurring antagonist in Stephen King’s interconnected universe, most notably in "The Stand" and "The Dark Tower" series.
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C.
Man in the Dark
Man in the Dark is a 2008 metafictional novel by Paul Auster that intertwines political dystopia with a grieving critic’s nighttime imaginings about war, loss, and alternate realities.
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D.
The Tall Man
The Tall Man is a 2012 mystery-horror film about a small-town legend surrounding a mysterious figure blamed for the disappearance of children.
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E.
The Black Thing
The Black Thing is a malevolent cosmic force embodying darkness and evil that threatens the universe in Madeleine L’Engle’s novel *A Wrinkle in Time*.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b9efe370819095cd219b143ae727 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e487ff42108190b82ceb4466aa2dff |
completed | April 19, 2026, 7:45 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:13 a.m.