Triple

T18865734
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jessica Mitford E461431 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The American Way of Death
The American Way of Death is a landmark 1963 exposé by Jessica Mitford that critically examines and satirizes the U.S. funeral industry’s commercial practices and exploitation of grieving families.
E1347522 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 American Way of Death | Statement: [Jessica Mitford, notableWork, The American Way of Death]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The American Way of Death
Context triple: [Jessica Mitford, notableWork, The American Way of Death]
  • A. The English Way of Death
    The English Way of Death is a Doctor Who novel by Gareth Roberts, known for its witty, pastiche-rich take on the Fourth Doctor and Romana II in a 1930s-set adventure.
  • B. A Natural History of the Dead
    A Natural History of the Dead is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that offers a stark, ironic meditation on death drawn from his World War I experiences.
  • C. Handbook for the Recently Deceased
    Handbook for the Recently Deceased is a fictional, tongue-in-cheek instruction manual for the newly dead featured prominently in Tim Burton’s 1988 film "Beetlejuice."
  • D. Why We Die
    "Why We Die" is a crime novel by British author Mick Herron, featuring his recurring private investigator Zoë Boehm in a darkly witty, character-driven mystery.
  • E. Ways of Dying
    Ways of Dying is a post-apartheid South African novel by Zakes Mda that follows a self-appointed professional mourner navigating grief, community, and transformation in a rapidly changing society.
  • 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 American Way of Death
Triple: [Jessica Mitford, notableWork, The American Way of Death]
Generated description
The American Way of Death is a landmark 1963 exposé by Jessica Mitford that critically examines and satirizes the U.S. funeral industry’s commercial practices and exploitation of grieving families.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The American Way of Death
Target entity description: The American Way of Death is a landmark 1963 exposé by Jessica Mitford that critically examines and satirizes the U.S. funeral industry’s commercial practices and exploitation of grieving families.
  • A. The English Way of Death
    The English Way of Death is a Doctor Who novel by Gareth Roberts, known for its witty, pastiche-rich take on the Fourth Doctor and Romana II in a 1930s-set adventure.
  • B. A Natural History of the Dead
    A Natural History of the Dead is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that offers a stark, ironic meditation on death drawn from his World War I experiences.
  • C. Handbook for the Recently Deceased
    Handbook for the Recently Deceased is a fictional, tongue-in-cheek instruction manual for the newly dead featured prominently in Tim Burton’s 1988 film "Beetlejuice."
  • D. Why We Die
    "Why We Die" is a crime novel by British author Mick Herron, featuring his recurring private investigator Zoë Boehm in a darkly witty, character-driven mystery.
  • E. Ways of Dying
    Ways of Dying is a post-apartheid South African novel by Zakes Mda that follows a self-appointed professional mourner navigating grief, community, and transformation in a rapidly changing society.
  • 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_69d8dcfb7b9c8190854e7b171b98ea2e completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5c2a5074481908941fcbb3b3eefa2 completed April 20, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0575b902ec8190bcda2ab33b87bea4 completed May 14, 2026, 7:11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a057927ddd881908809c9c27e1ae5a2 completed May 14, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0579982b4c8190a7cff4d2946bc15d completed May 14, 2026, 7:28 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:57 a.m.