Triple

T3090790
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William T. Vollmann E64475 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Rising Up and Rising Down
Rising Up and Rising Down is William T. Vollmann’s massive, multi-volume nonfiction exploration of the ethics, history, and practice of violence around the world.
 E325395 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: Rising Up and Rising Down | Statement: [William T. Vollmann, notableWork, Rising Up and Rising Down]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Rising Up and Rising Down
Context triple: [William T. Vollmann, notableWork, Rising Up and Rising Down]
  • A. Rising Down
    Rising Down is a politically charged hip-hop album by The Roots that blends dense lyricism with dark, experimental production.
  • B. When We Rise
    When We Rise is a television miniseries created by Dustin Lance Black that chronicles the history and struggles of the LGBTQ+ rights movement in the United States.
  • C. Ever Upward
    Ever Upward is the official English motto of the U.S. state of New York, expressing a spirit of continual progress and aspiration.
  • D. Down on the Upside
    Down on the Upside is a 1996 studio album by American rock band Soundgarden that blends heavy alternative rock with more experimental and melodic elements.
  • E. Rise
    "Rise" is a song by Herb Alpert whose distinctive groove has been widely sampled in later hip-hop and R&B tracks.
  • 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: Rising Up and Rising Down
Triple: [William T. Vollmann, notableWork, Rising Up and Rising Down]
Generated description
Rising Up and Rising Down is William T. Vollmann’s massive, multi-volume nonfiction exploration of the ethics, history, and practice of violence around the world.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Rising Up and Rising Down
Target entity description: Rising Up and Rising Down is William T. Vollmann’s massive, multi-volume nonfiction exploration of the ethics, history, and practice of violence around the world.
  • A. Rising Down
    Rising Down is a politically charged hip-hop album by The Roots that blends dense lyricism with dark, experimental production.
  • B. When We Rise
    When We Rise is a television miniseries created by Dustin Lance Black that chronicles the history and struggles of the LGBTQ+ rights movement in the United States.
  • C. Ever Upward
    Ever Upward is the official English motto of the U.S. state of New York, expressing a spirit of continual progress and aspiration.
  • D. Down on the Upside
    Down on the Upside is a 1996 studio album by American rock band Soundgarden that blends heavy alternative rock with more experimental and melodic elements.
  • E. Rise
    "Rise" is a song by Herb Alpert whose distinctive groove has been widely sampled in later hip-hop and R&B tracks.
  • 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.