Triple

T2114821
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Saturday Evening Post E42583 entity
Predicate hasContributor P4244 FINISHED
Object Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist and playwright, best known for his satirical portrayals of middle-class life and for being the first U.S. writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
E233849 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: Sinclair Lewis | Statement: [The Saturday Evening Post, hasContributor, Sinclair Lewis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sinclair Lewis
Context triple: [The Saturday Evening Post, hasContributor, Sinclair Lewis]
  • A. John Howells
    John Howells is a notable individual who shares the surname associated with the prominent Howells family name.
  • B. Booth Tarkington
    Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and playwright best known for his early 20th-century portrayals of Midwestern American life and for works such as "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "Alice Adams."
  • C. John Dos Passos
    John Dos Passos was an American novelist and artist best known for his innovative, socially critical U.S.A. trilogy, which portrayed early 20th-century American life through experimental narrative techniques.
  • D. William Dean Howells
    William Dean Howells was a prominent 19th-century American realist author, critic, and editor often called the "Dean of American Letters."
  • E. Theodore Dreiser
    Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist known for his naturalistic, unvarnished portrayals of urban life and social inequality in works such as "Sister Carrie" and "An American Tragedy."
  • 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: Sinclair Lewis
Triple: [The Saturday Evening Post, hasContributor, Sinclair Lewis]
Generated description
Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist and playwright, best known for his satirical portrayals of middle-class life and for being the first U.S. writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sinclair Lewis
Target entity description: Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist and playwright, best known for his satirical portrayals of middle-class life and for being the first U.S. writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  • A. John Howells
    John Howells is a notable individual who shares the surname associated with the prominent Howells family name.
  • B. Booth Tarkington
    Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and playwright best known for his early 20th-century portrayals of Midwestern American life and for works such as "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "Alice Adams."
  • C. John Dos Passos
    John Dos Passos was an American novelist and artist best known for his innovative, socially critical U.S.A. trilogy, which portrayed early 20th-century American life through experimental narrative techniques.
  • D. William Dean Howells
    William Dean Howells was a prominent 19th-century American realist author, critic, and editor often called the "Dean of American Letters."
  • E. Theodore Dreiser
    Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist known for his naturalistic, unvarnished portrayals of urban life and social inequality in works such as "Sister Carrie" and "An American Tragedy."
  • 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_69a8871040f08190aac2e2d0ab6b47ad completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbb0724e08190a0a4210d86261d6d completed March 7, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae3076afec819091183e328cff58c8 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae30e1c7488190acd6d29c5ad10c33 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae316398488190b9dd38145d5488b4 completed March 9, 2026, 2:33 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:43 p.m.