Triple

T20154231
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alan Sillitoe E491511 entity
Predicate wrote P2831 FINISHED
Object The Death of William Posters
The Death of William Posters is a 1965 novel by British author Alan Sillitoe that follows a disillusioned Nottingham factory worker who abandons his conventional life in search of personal freedom and identity.
E1414939 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 Death of William Posters | Statement: [Alan Sillitoe, wrote, The Death of William Posters]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Death of William Posters
Context triple: [Alan Sillitoe, wrote, The Death of William Posters]
  • A. Death of Ellenai
    Death of Ellenai is a symbolist painting by Polish artist Jacek Malczewski that poignantly depicts the death of a young exile, reflecting themes of suffering, patriotism, and spiritual transcendence.
  • B. Mother with her Dead Son
    Mother with her Dead Son is a poignant sculpture by Käthe Kollwitz that serves as the central war memorial in Berlin’s Neue Wache, commemorating victims of war and tyranny.
  • C. Death of a Man
    "Death of a Man" is a novel by American writer Kay Boyle that explores the moral and emotional turmoil surrounding the rise of fascism in pre–World War II Europe.
  • D. The Man Is Dead
    "The Man Is Dead" is an EP by Australian indie rock band The Jezabels that helped establish their dark, dramatic sound and grow their early following.
  • E. The Man Who Finally Died
    The Man Who Finally Died is a 1963 British thriller film, based on a television serial, about a man investigating his supposedly dead father's mysterious past in a small Bavarian town.
  • 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 Death of William Posters
Triple: [Alan Sillitoe, wrote, The Death of William Posters]
Generated description
The Death of William Posters is a 1965 novel by British author Alan Sillitoe that follows a disillusioned Nottingham factory worker who abandons his conventional life in search of personal freedom and identity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Death of William Posters
Target entity description: The Death of William Posters is a 1965 novel by British author Alan Sillitoe that follows a disillusioned Nottingham factory worker who abandons his conventional life in search of personal freedom and identity.
  • A. Death of Ellenai
    Death of Ellenai is a symbolist painting by Polish artist Jacek Malczewski that poignantly depicts the death of a young exile, reflecting themes of suffering, patriotism, and spiritual transcendence.
  • B. Mother with her Dead Son
    Mother with her Dead Son is a poignant sculpture by Käthe Kollwitz that serves as the central war memorial in Berlin’s Neue Wache, commemorating victims of war and tyranny.
  • C. Death of a Man
    "Death of a Man" is a novel by American writer Kay Boyle that explores the moral and emotional turmoil surrounding the rise of fascism in pre–World War II Europe.
  • D. The Man Is Dead
    "The Man Is Dead" is an EP by Australian indie rock band The Jezabels that helped establish their dark, dramatic sound and grow their early following.
  • E. The Man Who Finally Died
    The Man Who Finally Died is a 1963 British thriller film, based on a television serial, about a man investigating his supposedly dead father's mysterious past in a small Bavarian town.
  • 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_69da6265f8f0819080b29c752a574088 completed April 11, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e667de9bec8190836887c86dbcf28d completed April 20, 2026, 5:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0834743ea88190a30384ab16826485 completed May 16, 2026, 9:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0835cfd5548190bd29237b0cc08b9e completed May 16, 2026, 9:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a083666e9188190b5c62e2f0e7b123e completed May 16, 2026, 9:18 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:34 p.m.