Triple

T3090775
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William T. Vollmann E64475 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Vollmann
Vollmann is the surname of William T. Vollmann, an American novelist and journalist known for his ambitious, genre-blending works and explorations of violence, poverty, and history.
 E325393 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: Vollmann | Statement: [William T. Vollmann, familyName, Vollmann]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Vollmann
Context triple: [William T. Vollmann, familyName, Vollmann]
  • A. Van Brunt
    Van Brunt is the surname of Brom Bones, the boisterous rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
  • B. Vidal
    Vidal is a river flowing through the Occitanie region in southern France.
  • C. Vachel
    Vachel is the given name of American poet Vachel Lindsay, known for his rhythmic, performance-oriented verse and influence on modern spoken poetry.
  • D. Pohlmann
    Pohlmann was a European officer who became a senior commander in the Maratha army and led its forces against the British at the Battle of Assaye in 1803.
  • E. Blaustein
    Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
  • 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: Vollmann
Triple: [William T. Vollmann, familyName, Vollmann]
Generated description
Vollmann is the surname of William T. Vollmann, an American novelist and journalist known for his ambitious, genre-blending works and explorations of violence, poverty, and history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Vollmann
Target entity description: Vollmann is the surname of William T. Vollmann, an American novelist and journalist known for his ambitious, genre-blending works and explorations of violence, poverty, and history.
  • A. Van Brunt
    Van Brunt is the surname of Brom Bones, the boisterous rival of Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
  • B. Vidal
    Vidal is a river flowing through the Occitanie region in southern France.
  • C. Vachel
    Vachel is the given name of American poet Vachel Lindsay, known for his rhythmic, performance-oriented verse and influence on modern spoken poetry.
  • D. Pohlmann
    Pohlmann was a European officer who became a senior commander in the Maratha army and led its forces against the British at the Battle of Assaye in 1803.
  • E. Blaustein
    Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
  • 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_69ad857c97d88190b26f9b1c90839c77 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada20d8f788190b05b8b6b5042bc1a completed March 8, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1f8a6fe2081909e2bf9ee5629f017 completed March 11, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1f94a05608190bc163a6950586ff9 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, 3:03 p.m.