Triple

T3090796
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William T. Vollmann E64475 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Argall
Argall is a historical novel by William T. Vollmann that reimagines the early English colonization of America and the story of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas in a dense, baroque narrative style.
 E325400 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: Argall | Statement: [William T. Vollmann, notableWork, Argall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Argall
Context triple: [William T. Vollmann, notableWork, Argall]
  • A. Gallanach
    Gallanach is a small coastal settlement on the Scottish island of Muck in the Inner Hebrides.
  • B. Airmyn
    Airmyn is a small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, situated near the town of Goole and the confluence of the Rivers Aire and Ouse.
  • C. Gaheris
    Gaheris is a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, known as one of King Arthur’s nephews and a member of the Orkney clan.
  • D. Streonshalh
    Streonshalh was the original Anglo-Saxon name for the monastic settlement that later became known as Whitby Abbey in Northumbria, England.
  • E. Givors
    Givors is a commune in eastern France located in the Metropolis of Lyon, known historically as an industrial and river-port town on the Rhône.
  • 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: Argall
Triple: [William T. Vollmann, notableWork, Argall]
Generated description
Argall is a historical novel by William T. Vollmann that reimagines the early English colonization of America and the story of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas in a dense, baroque narrative style.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Argall
Target entity description: Argall is a historical novel by William T. Vollmann that reimagines the early English colonization of America and the story of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas in a dense, baroque narrative style.
  • A. Gallanach
    Gallanach is a small coastal settlement on the Scottish island of Muck in the Inner Hebrides.
  • B. Airmyn
    Airmyn is a small village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, situated near the town of Goole and the confluence of the Rivers Aire and Ouse.
  • C. Gaheris
    Gaheris is a knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, known as one of King Arthur’s nephews and a member of the Orkney clan.
  • D. Streonshalh
    Streonshalh was the original Anglo-Saxon name for the monastic settlement that later became known as Whitby Abbey in Northumbria, England.
  • E. Givors
    Givors is a commune in eastern France located in the Metropolis of Lyon, known historically as an industrial and river-port town on the Rhône.
  • 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.