Triple
T2854993
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Crying of Lot 49 |
E63178
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Oedipa Maas
Oedipa Maas is the perplexed and increasingly paranoid California housewife who serves as the protagonist of Thomas Pynchon's novella "The Crying of Lot 49," navigating a possible vast underground postal conspiracy.
|
E305349
|
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: Oedipa Maas | Statement: [The Crying of Lot 49, mainCharacter, Oedipa Maas]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oedipa Maas Context triple: [The Crying of Lot 49, mainCharacter, Oedipa Maas]
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A.
Antonia Van Drimmelen
Antonia Van Drimmelen is a film editor known for her work on the political drama film "Charlie Wilson's War."
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B.
Shirley Hufstedler
Shirley Hufstedler was an American lawyer, judge, and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Education after serving as a federal appellate judge.
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C.
Hildy
Hildy is a brash, fast-talking New York City taxi driver and one of the central comic female leads in the musical "On the Town."
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D.
Helena Springer Green
Helena Springer Green was the wife of American businessman and philanthropist John J. Raskob, a prominent executive at DuPont and General Motors and a key figure behind the construction of the Empire State Building.
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E.
Elizabeth Doll
Elizabeth Doll was the wife of pioneering German physicist Heinrich Hertz, who first conclusively demonstrated the existence of electromagnetic waves.
- 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: Oedipa Maas Triple: [The Crying of Lot 49, mainCharacter, Oedipa Maas]
Generated description
Oedipa Maas is the perplexed and increasingly paranoid California housewife who serves as the protagonist of Thomas Pynchon's novella "The Crying of Lot 49," navigating a possible vast underground postal conspiracy.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oedipa Maas Target entity description: Oedipa Maas is the perplexed and increasingly paranoid California housewife who serves as the protagonist of Thomas Pynchon's novella "The Crying of Lot 49," navigating a possible vast underground postal conspiracy.
-
A.
Antonia Van Drimmelen
Antonia Van Drimmelen is a film editor known for her work on the political drama film "Charlie Wilson's War."
-
B.
Shirley Hufstedler
Shirley Hufstedler was an American lawyer, judge, and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Education after serving as a federal appellate judge.
-
C.
Hildy
Hildy is a brash, fast-talking New York City taxi driver and one of the central comic female leads in the musical "On the Town."
-
D.
Helena Springer Green
Helena Springer Green was the wife of American businessman and philanthropist John J. Raskob, a prominent executive at DuPont and General Motors and a key figure behind the construction of the Empire State Building.
-
E.
Elizabeth Doll
Elizabeth Doll was the wife of pioneering German physicist Heinrich Hertz, who first conclusively demonstrated the existence of electromagnetic waves.
- 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_69ab4c407c408190857d25e027155ce9 |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abdf60852c8190b66c8719c63a723e |
completed | March 7, 2026, 8:18 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b01d8774cc8190aa6ed40b26c4a568 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 1:32 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b01ea4e3a481909241383e2c4093d8 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 1:37 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b01f1a9ac48190b8d2b5247cb2c3d8 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 1:39 p.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:02 p.m.