Triple

T23535998
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brian Selznick E576700 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Doll People
The Doll People is a children's novel about a family of living porcelain dolls who embark on adventurous quests while hiding their secret life from the humans around them.
E1591854 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 Doll People | Statement: [Brian Selznick, notableWork, The Doll People]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Doll People
Context triple: [Brian Selznick, notableWork, The Doll People]
  • A. The Doll
    The Doll is a classic 1890 realist novel by Polish writer Bolesław Prus that portrays Warsaw society and unrequited love amid the social and economic changes of late 19th-century Poland.
  • B. The Painted Doll
    The Painted Doll is a sinister, doll-like character from the horror musical film "The Devil’s Carnival," known for her eerie appearance and theatrical, carnival-themed performances.
  • C. The Doll Family
    The Doll Family was a famous troupe of German-American dwarf actors and performers who appeared in early 20th-century circuses and Hollywood films, including "Freaks" and "The Wizard of Oz."
  • D. The Dollmaker
    The Dollmaker is a dramatic work best known through its acclaimed 1984 television film adaptation starring Jane Fonda as a Kentucky woman struggling to support her family in wartime Detroit.
  • E. The Doll Who Ate His Mother
    The Doll Who Ate His Mother is a 1976 horror novel by British writer Ramsey Campbell, known for its bleak urban setting, psychological terror, and early example of his distinctive modern horror style.
  • 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 Doll People
Triple: [Brian Selznick, notableWork, The Doll People]
Generated description
The Doll People is a children's novel about a family of living porcelain dolls who embark on adventurous quests while hiding their secret life from the humans around them.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Doll People
Target entity description: The Doll People is a children's novel about a family of living porcelain dolls who embark on adventurous quests while hiding their secret life from the humans around them.
  • A. The Doll
    The Doll is a classic 1890 realist novel by Polish writer Bolesław Prus that portrays Warsaw society and unrequited love amid the social and economic changes of late 19th-century Poland.
  • B. The Painted Doll
    The Painted Doll is a sinister, doll-like character from the horror musical film "The Devil’s Carnival," known for her eerie appearance and theatrical, carnival-themed performances.
  • C. The Doll Family
    The Doll Family was a famous troupe of German-American dwarf actors and performers who appeared in early 20th-century circuses and Hollywood films, including "Freaks" and "The Wizard of Oz."
  • D. The Dollmaker
    The Dollmaker is a dramatic work best known through its acclaimed 1984 television film adaptation starring Jane Fonda as a Kentucky woman struggling to support her family in wartime Detroit.
  • E. The Doll Who Ate His Mother
    The Doll Who Ate His Mother is a 1976 horror novel by British writer Ramsey Campbell, known for its bleak urban setting, psychological terror, and early example of his distinctive modern horror style.
  • 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_69e245f5a8848190a2ba42e271c6c31f completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1ae1738bc81909a7b761ddbaa1883 completed April 29, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0cdf57c8088190bd78e9e6b99ddb46 completed May 19, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ce35a16a08190969f6811be7e471c completed May 19, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ce4d4321c8190af0fe04f728c4f67 completed May 19, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 6:10 p.m.