Triple

T19664039
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories E472154 entity
Predicate containsWork P2011 FINISHED
Object Walter Briggs
Walter Briggs is a fictional character appearing in John Updike’s short story collection "Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories."
E1435490 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: Walter Briggs | Statement: [Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, containsWork, Walter Briggs]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Briggs
Context triple: [Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, containsWork, Walter Briggs]
  • A. Walter Parratt
    Walter Parratt was a prominent English organist, composer, and teacher who served as Master of the Queen’s (later King’s) Music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Walter Clark
    Walter Clark is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as law, politics, and the arts.
  • C. Walter Carroll
    Walter Carroll was the husband of acclaimed American stage and screen actress Julie Harris.
  • D. Ralph Brownrigg
    Ralph Brownrigg was a 17th-century English clergyman and academic who served as Bishop of Exeter in the Church of England.
  • E. George Briggs
    George Briggs is a drifter and claim jumper in the American frontier who becomes an unlikely escort for three mentally ill women in the novel and film "The Homesman."
  • 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: Walter Briggs
Triple: [Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, containsWork, Walter Briggs]
Generated description
Walter Briggs is a fictional character appearing in John Updike’s short story collection "Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Briggs
Target entity description: Walter Briggs is a fictional character appearing in John Updike’s short story collection "Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories."
  • A. Walter Parratt
    Walter Parratt was a prominent English organist, composer, and teacher who served as Master of the Queen’s (later King’s) Music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. Walter Clark
    Walter Clark is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as law, politics, and the arts.
  • C. Walter Carroll
    Walter Carroll was the husband of acclaimed American stage and screen actress Julie Harris.
  • D. Ralph Brownrigg
    Ralph Brownrigg was a 17th-century English clergyman and academic who served as Bishop of Exeter in the Church of England.
  • E. George Briggs
    George Briggs is a drifter and claim jumper in the American frontier who becomes an unlikely escort for three mentally ill women in the novel and film "The Homesman."
  • 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_69d8e514f2e08190ba70a4449519d218 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6416671fc81908e25b0477234fa0f completed April 20, 2026, 3:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a089d2103a481908c581faea7555df6 completed May 16, 2026, 4:36 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a089db22fcc819094d595a3ce4e19a6 completed May 16, 2026, 4:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a089e4c21d88190a6c1ddf8e0879cb1 completed May 16, 2026, 4:41 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:45 p.m.