Triple

T21943561
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ben Fountain E541879 entity
Predicate wrote P2831 FINISHED
Object The Texas Itinerary (essays and reportage) — NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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 Texas Itinerary (essays and reportage) | Statement: [Ben Fountain, wrote, The Texas Itinerary (essays and reportage)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Texas Itinerary (essays and reportage)
Context triple: [Ben Fountain, wrote, The Texas Itinerary (essays and reportage)]
  • A. A Journey Through Texas
    A Journey Through Texas is a mid-19th-century travel narrative by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted that vividly documents the geography, culture, and social conditions of Texas before the Civil War.
  • B. God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
    God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State is a nonfiction book by Lawrence Wright that blends reportage, memoir, and history to explore the culture, politics, and contradictions of modern Texas.
  • C. A Strange Tale of Texas
    A Strange Tale of Texas is the subtitle of the 1865 novel "The Headless Horseman," a Western adventure story by Captain Mayne Reid set on the Texas frontier.
  • D. The Story of Texas
    The Story of Texas is the central historical narrative presented by the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, showcasing the state’s rich and diverse past through exhibits and educational programs.
  • E. Texas Across the River
    Texas Across the River is a 1966 Western comedy film starring Dean Martin, Alain Delon, and Joey Bishop that parodies frontier and cultural clashes in the American West.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Texas Itinerary (essays and reportage)
Target entity description: The Texas Itinerary (essays and reportage) is a nonfiction collection by Ben Fountain that blends literary essays and on-the-ground reporting to explore contemporary life, culture, and politics in Texas.
  • A. A Journey Through Texas
    A Journey Through Texas is a mid-19th-century travel narrative by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted that vividly documents the geography, culture, and social conditions of Texas before the Civil War.
  • B. God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
    God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State is a nonfiction book by Lawrence Wright that blends reportage, memoir, and history to explore the culture, politics, and contradictions of modern Texas.
  • C. A Strange Tale of Texas
    A Strange Tale of Texas is the subtitle of the 1865 novel "The Headless Horseman," a Western adventure story by Captain Mayne Reid set on the Texas frontier.
  • D. The Story of Texas
    The Story of Texas is the central historical narrative presented by the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, showcasing the state’s rich and diverse past through exhibits and educational programs.
  • E. Texas Across the River
    Texas Across the River is a 1966 Western comedy film starring Dean Martin, Alain Delon, and Joey Bishop that parodies frontier and cultural clashes in the American West.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69e0c47e2e5c81909a7f74ce3de50911 completed April 16, 2026, 11:14 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1242515ec8190b015bf8c7b13be85 completed April 28, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 7:56 p.m.