Triple

T20746433
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Donald E. Westlake E510595 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Dortmunder series
The Dortmunder series is a collection of comic crime novels by Donald E. Westlake featuring the chronically unlucky professional thief John Dortmunder and his misfit crew.
E1448582 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: Dortmunder series | Statement: [Donald E. Westlake, notableWork, Dortmunder series]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dortmunder series
Context triple: [Donald E. Westlake, notableWork, Dortmunder series]
  • A. Bernie Gunther series
    The Bernie Gunther series is a set of historical crime novels by Philip Kerr featuring a cynical Berlin detective navigating the moral complexities of Nazi and postwar Germany.
  • B. Lewis Barnavelt series
    The Lewis Barnavelt series is a set of middle-grade fantasy-horror novels, originally created by John Bellairs and later continued by Brad Strickland, following a young boy’s magical adventures with his eccentric uncle and their witch neighbor.
  • C. Paternoster Gang
    The Paternoster Gang is a recurring trio of Victorian-era detectives in Doctor Who, consisting of the Silurian Madame Vastra, her human wife Jenny Flint, and the Sontaran warrior Strax.
  • D. Black Books
    Black Books is a British sitcom centered on the misanthropic owner of a chaotic London bookshop, known for its dark humor and cult following.
  • E. Blackwood and Sons
    Blackwood and Sons was a prominent 19th-century Scottish publishing house known for issuing influential literary works and the periodical Blackwood's Magazine.
  • 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: Dortmunder series
Triple: [Donald E. Westlake, notableWork, Dortmunder series]
Generated description
The Dortmunder series is a collection of comic crime novels by Donald E. Westlake featuring the chronically unlucky professional thief John Dortmunder and his misfit crew.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dortmunder series
Target entity description: The Dortmunder series is a collection of comic crime novels by Donald E. Westlake featuring the chronically unlucky professional thief John Dortmunder and his misfit crew.
  • A. Bernie Gunther series
    The Bernie Gunther series is a set of historical crime novels by Philip Kerr featuring a cynical Berlin detective navigating the moral complexities of Nazi and postwar Germany.
  • B. Lewis Barnavelt series
    The Lewis Barnavelt series is a set of middle-grade fantasy-horror novels, originally created by John Bellairs and later continued by Brad Strickland, following a young boy’s magical adventures with his eccentric uncle and their witch neighbor.
  • C. Paternoster Gang
    The Paternoster Gang is a recurring trio of Victorian-era detectives in Doctor Who, consisting of the Silurian Madame Vastra, her human wife Jenny Flint, and the Sontaran warrior Strax.
  • D. Black Books
    Black Books is a British sitcom centered on the misanthropic owner of a chaotic London bookshop, known for its dark humor and cult following.
  • E. Blackwood and Sons
    Blackwood and Sons was a prominent 19th-century Scottish publishing house known for issuing influential literary works and the periodical Blackwood's Magazine.
  • 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_69e0b4c845e88190b4c5f3ae79291182 completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c225c564819088f2461467698095 completed April 21, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08e84274d08190a851de1f415bcbc6 completed May 16, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08e8fc1d6c819083f06debaa3bec24 completed May 16, 2026, 10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08e98a594c8190b3a2d9ae7e3af4f7 completed May 16, 2026, 10:02 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:33 p.m.