Triple

T2640873
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Blake Bailey E62861 entity
Predicate hasWrittenAbout P14097 FINISHED
Object John Cheever
John Cheever was a prominent 20th-century American writer best known for his incisive short stories and novels depicting the anxieties and contradictions of suburban middle-class life.
 E286202 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: John Cheever | Statement: [Blake Bailey, hasWrittenAbout, John Cheever]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Cheever
Context triple: [Blake Bailey, hasWrittenAbout, John Cheever]
  • A. John O'Hara
    John O'Hara was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his sharp social realism in works such as "Appointment in Samarra" and "BUtterfield 8."
  • B. Irving Morrow
    Irving Morrow was an American architect best known for designing the Art Deco elements and iconic International Orange color scheme of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
  • C. John Updike
    John Updike was an American novelist, short-story writer, and critic best known for his incisive portrayals of middle-class life in works such as the "Rabbit" series.
  • D. Richard Yates
    Richard Yates was an American politician who served as the Civil War–era governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. senator.
  • E. Richard Yates
    Richard Yates was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his bleak, incisive portrayals of mid-20th-century suburban disillusionment, particularly in his novel "Revolutionary Road."
  • 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: John Cheever
Triple: [Blake Bailey, hasWrittenAbout, John Cheever]
Generated description
John Cheever was a prominent 20th-century American writer best known for his incisive short stories and novels depicting the anxieties and contradictions of suburban middle-class life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Cheever
Target entity description: John Cheever was a prominent 20th-century American writer best known for his incisive short stories and novels depicting the anxieties and contradictions of suburban middle-class life.
  • A. John O'Hara
    John O'Hara was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his sharp social realism in works such as "Appointment in Samarra" and "BUtterfield 8."
  • B. Irving Morrow
    Irving Morrow was an American architect best known for designing the Art Deco elements and iconic International Orange color scheme of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
  • C. John Updike
    John Updike was an American novelist, short-story writer, and critic best known for his incisive portrayals of middle-class life in works such as the "Rabbit" series.
  • D. Richard Yates
    Richard Yates was an American politician who served as the Civil War–era governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. senator.
  • E. Richard Yates
    Richard Yates was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his bleak, incisive portrayals of mid-20th-century suburban disillusionment, particularly in his novel "Revolutionary Road."
  • 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_69ab4c3f2dcc819082df80f5e032f690 completed March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd8fc8ee881908a9f6820d8934a62 completed March 7, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af98bd689481908568d35baac1e065 completed March 10, 2026, 4:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af99c237548190838559ccac95f1c5 completed March 10, 2026, 4:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af9a5938b48190820f37f2e2280438 completed March 10, 2026, 4:13 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:53 p.m.