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]
  • 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
  • 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.