Triple

T2123431
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Graham Greene E43976 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Quiet American
The Quiet American is a 1955 political novel by Graham Greene that explores moral ambiguity, love, and early U.S. involvement in Vietnam through the intertwined lives of a British journalist and an idealistic American.
E235980 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 Quiet American | Statement: [Graham Greene, notableWork, The Quiet American]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Quiet American
Context triple: [Graham Greene, notableWork, The Quiet American]
  • A. The Painted Veil
    The Painted Veil is a 2006 romantic drama film directed by John Curran, adapted from W. Somerset Maugham’s novel about a troubled marriage tested during a cholera epidemic in 1920s China.
  • B. To Have and Have Not
    To Have and Have Not is a 1937 novel by Ernest Hemingway that portrays a Depression-era fishing boat captain drawn into smuggling and moral conflict in Key West and Cuba.
  • C. Secret War in Laos
    Secret War in Laos refers to the covert U.S.-backed military campaign and proxy conflict in Laos during the Vietnam War era, involving the CIA, Hmong forces, and the Royal Lao Government against communist Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese forces.
  • D. Ghare-Baire
    Ghare-Baire is a 1916 Bengali novel by Rabindranath Tagore that explores nationalism, gender, and personal freedom against the backdrop of the Swadeshi movement in colonial India.
  • E. The Naked and the Dead
    The Naked and the Dead is a 1948 World War II novel by Norman Mailer that follows an American platoon in the Pacific and is widely regarded as one of the greatest war novels of the 20th century.
  • 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 Quiet American
Triple: [Graham Greene, notableWork, The Quiet American]
Generated description
The Quiet American is a 1955 political novel by Graham Greene that explores moral ambiguity, love, and early U.S. involvement in Vietnam through the intertwined lives of a British journalist and an idealistic American.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Quiet American
Target entity description: The Quiet American is a 1955 political novel by Graham Greene that explores moral ambiguity, love, and early U.S. involvement in Vietnam through the intertwined lives of a British journalist and an idealistic American.
  • A. The Painted Veil
    The Painted Veil is a 2006 romantic drama film directed by John Curran, adapted from W. Somerset Maugham’s novel about a troubled marriage tested during a cholera epidemic in 1920s China.
  • B. To Have and Have Not
    To Have and Have Not is a 1937 novel by Ernest Hemingway that portrays a Depression-era fishing boat captain drawn into smuggling and moral conflict in Key West and Cuba.
  • C. Secret War in Laos
    Secret War in Laos refers to the covert U.S.-backed military campaign and proxy conflict in Laos during the Vietnam War era, involving the CIA, Hmong forces, and the Royal Lao Government against communist Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese forces.
  • D. Ghare-Baire
    Ghare-Baire is a 1916 Bengali novel by Rabindranath Tagore that explores nationalism, gender, and personal freedom against the backdrop of the Swadeshi movement in colonial India.
  • E. The Naked and the Dead
    The Naked and the Dead is a 1948 World War II novel by Norman Mailer that follows an American platoon in the Pacific and is widely regarded as one of the greatest war novels of the 20th century.
  • 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_69a88717cfe48190b7ecdd68c824848a completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbb5445848190bbc6dc1236e9f749 completed March 7, 2026, 5:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae51999ca08190a726040df6825ba5 completed March 9, 2026, 4:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae5209ae40819095e02cafb8112a1f completed March 9, 2026, 4:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae529375788190aead19ec0874f11e completed March 9, 2026, 4:54 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:44 p.m.