Triple

T20701710
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Lie E508799 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object short story "The Lie" by T. C. Boyle
The short story "The Lie" by T. C. Boyle is a darkly comic exploration of a young man's escalating deceptions and their consequences in contemporary American life.
 E1446337 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: short story "The Lie" by T. C. Boyle | Statement: [The Lie, basedOn, short story "The Lie" by T. C. Boyle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: short story "The Lie" by T. C. Boyle
Context triple: [The Lie, basedOn, short story "The Lie" by T. C. Boyle]
  • A. short story "The World to Come" by Jim Shepard
    "The World to Come" is a historical short story by Jim Shepard that portrays the harsh isolation and emotional turmoil of a 19th-century frontier woman through her intimate diary entries.
  • B. short story "The Flamingo Kid" by Jay Cronley
    The short story "The Flamingo Kid" by Jay Cronley is a humorous coming-of-age tale about a working-class teenager who spends a transformative summer immersed in the flashy, seductive world of a private beach club.
  • C. Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole"
    Elmore Leonard’s short story "Fire in the Hole" is a crime tale featuring U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens that served as the primary inspiration for the television series "Justified."
  • D. short story "In the Event of My Father’s Death"
    "In the Event of My Father’s Death" is a short story by Roxane Gay that appears in her collection Difficult Women, exploring themes of family, grief, and complex emotional inheritance.
  • E. short story "Needle in the Heart" by Richard Matheson
    "Needle in the Heart" is a horror short story by Richard Matheson that served as the basis for one of the segments in the anthology film Trilogy of Terror.
  • 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: short story "The Lie" by T. C. Boyle
Triple: [The Lie, basedOn, short story "The Lie" by T. C. Boyle]
Generated description
The short story "The Lie" by T. C. Boyle is a darkly comic exploration of a young man's escalating deceptions and their consequences in contemporary American life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: short story "The Lie" by T. C. Boyle
Target entity description: The short story "The Lie" by T. C. Boyle is a darkly comic exploration of a young man's escalating deceptions and their consequences in contemporary American life.
  • A. short story "The World to Come" by Jim Shepard
    "The World to Come" is a historical short story by Jim Shepard that portrays the harsh isolation and emotional turmoil of a 19th-century frontier woman through her intimate diary entries.
  • B. short story "The Flamingo Kid" by Jay Cronley
    The short story "The Flamingo Kid" by Jay Cronley is a humorous coming-of-age tale about a working-class teenager who spends a transformative summer immersed in the flashy, seductive world of a private beach club.
  • C. Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole"
    Elmore Leonard’s short story "Fire in the Hole" is a crime tale featuring U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens that served as the primary inspiration for the television series "Justified."
  • D. short story "In the Event of My Father’s Death"
    "In the Event of My Father’s Death" is a short story by Roxane Gay that appears in her collection Difficult Women, exploring themes of family, grief, and complex emotional inheritance.
  • E. short story "Needle in the Heart" by Richard Matheson
    "Needle in the Heart" is a horror short story by Richard Matheson that served as the basis for one of the segments in the anthology film Trilogy of Terror.
  • 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_69e0b4c2b2a481909e31e9cb8f81ab55 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c18bfac08190bf80beeb3ce1951a completed April 21, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08d7ed81dc81908db30e5655b7a6aa completed May 16, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08dc9aa1988190b5808af1efe80fe1 completed May 16, 2026, 9:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08dd44e64c81908bff61cb81b1fe9a completed May 16, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:12 p.m.