Triple

T3059778
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject novel "The Teahouse of the August Moon" E60568 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Vern Sneider
Vern Sneider was an American novelist best known for his humorous and satirical depictions of post–World War II American military occupation and cross-cultural encounters.
E325227 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: Vern Sneider | Statement: [novel "The Teahouse of the August Moon", author, Vern Sneider]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vern Sneider
Context triple: [novel "The Teahouse of the August Moon", author, Vern Sneider]
  • A. Vince Howard
    Vince Howard is a talented high school quarterback and central character in the television series "Friday Night Lights."
  • B. Vince Sherman
    Vince Sherman is a central character in the psychological thriller film "Mindhunters," portrayed as one of the FBI profiler trainees trapped on a remote island during a deadly training exercise.
  • C. David Kraft
    David Kraft is a member of the prominent Kraft family, known for its significant influence in the American food industry and philanthropy.
  • D. Ronald Bass
    Ronald Bass is an Academy Award–winning American screenwriter and producer known for writing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "The Joy Luck Club," and numerous popular Hollywood dramas.
  • E. Walter Murphy
    Walter Murphy is an American composer, arranger, and pianist best known for his disco-era hit "A Fifth of Beethoven" and for scoring numerous film and television projects, including collaborations with Seth MacFarlane.
  • 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: Vern Sneider
Triple: [novel "The Teahouse of the August Moon", author, Vern Sneider]
Generated description
Vern Sneider was an American novelist best known for his humorous and satirical depictions of post–World War II American military occupation and cross-cultural encounters.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vern Sneider
Target entity description: Vern Sneider was an American novelist best known for his humorous and satirical depictions of post–World War II American military occupation and cross-cultural encounters.
  • A. Vince Howard
    Vince Howard is a talented high school quarterback and central character in the television series "Friday Night Lights."
  • B. Vince Sherman
    Vince Sherman is a central character in the psychological thriller film "Mindhunters," portrayed as one of the FBI profiler trainees trapped on a remote island during a deadly training exercise.
  • C. David Kraft
    David Kraft is a member of the prominent Kraft family, known for its significant influence in the American food industry and philanthropy.
  • D. Ronald Bass
    Ronald Bass is an Academy Award–winning American screenwriter and producer known for writing acclaimed films such as "Rain Man," "The Joy Luck Club," and numerous popular Hollywood dramas.
  • E. Walter Murphy
    Walter Murphy is an American composer, arranger, and pianist best known for his disco-era hit "A Fifth of Beethoven" and for scoring numerous film and television projects, including collaborations with Seth MacFarlane.
  • 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_69ad8578137c81908259dcb27c7d6d7c completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9e9cf9188190b43f50edc009030d completed March 8, 2026, 4:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1f8759f988190a69ca8a4682af5ba completed March 11, 2026, 11:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1f930321081908f98aa5f9b8ba611 completed March 11, 2026, 11:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1f9ad0b148190b98f93699598dd1e completed March 11, 2026, 11:24 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:02 p.m.