Triple

T1928997
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Iowa Writers' Workshop E40896 entity
Predicate notableAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist best known for works such as "A Thousand Acres," noted for her incisive explorations of family, morality, and Midwestern life.
 E218092 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: Jane Smiley | Statement: [Iowa Writers' Workshop, notableAlumni, Jane Smiley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jane Smiley
Context triple: [Iowa Writers' Workshop, notableAlumni, Jane Smiley]
  • A. Marilynne Robinson
    Marilynne Robinson is an acclaimed American novelist and essayist known for her deeply reflective, spiritually infused works such as "Housekeeping" and the Gilead series.
  • B. Annie Proulx
    Annie Proulx is an acclaimed American author best known for her richly detailed fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Shipping News" and the short story "Brokeback Mountain."
  • C. Lee Smith
    Lee Smith is an acclaimed Australian film editor known for his work on major films such as Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy and Dunkirk.
  • D. Diane Johnson
    Diane Johnson is an American novelist and essayist best known for co-writing the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s "The Shining."
  • E. Fannie Flagg
    Fannie Flagg is an American author, actress, and comedian best known for her novel "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe," which was adapted into the popular film "Fried Green Tomatoes."
  • 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: Jane Smiley
Triple: [Iowa Writers' Workshop, notableAlumni, Jane Smiley]
Generated description
Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist best known for works such as "A Thousand Acres," noted for her incisive explorations of family, morality, and Midwestern life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jane Smiley
Target entity description: Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist best known for works such as "A Thousand Acres," noted for her incisive explorations of family, morality, and Midwestern life.
  • A. Marilynne Robinson
    Marilynne Robinson is an acclaimed American novelist and essayist known for her deeply reflective, spiritually infused works such as "Housekeeping" and the Gilead series.
  • B. Annie Proulx
    Annie Proulx is an acclaimed American author best known for her richly detailed fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Shipping News" and the short story "Brokeback Mountain."
  • C. Lee Smith
    Lee Smith is an acclaimed Australian film editor known for his work on major films such as Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy and Dunkirk.
  • D. Diane Johnson
    Diane Johnson is an American novelist and essayist best known for co-writing the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s "The Shining."
  • E. Fannie Flagg
    Fannie Flagg is an American author, actress, and comedian best known for her novel "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe," which was adapted into the popular film "Fried Green Tomatoes."
  • 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_69a8864711648190b07bed24ed76258e completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb26593308190835863b760449d04 completed March 7, 2026, 5:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adfbb2cc988190a4046c17c8389996 completed March 8, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adfc6aa96c81909ae3cff6c7ab7f79 completed March 8, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adfcebbc808190a74f9082636bce11 completed March 8, 2026, 10:49 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:35 p.m.