Triple

T3090798
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William T. Vollmann E64475 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Dying Grass
The Dying Grass is a sprawling historical novel by William T. Vollmann that chronicles the Nez Perce War of 1877 in his characteristically dense, experimental style.
E325401 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: The Dying Grass | Statement: [William T. Vollmann, notableWork, The Dying Grass]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Dying Grass
Context triple: [William T. Vollmann, notableWork, The Dying Grass]
  • A. Shadows on the Grass
    "Shadows on the Grass" is a memoir by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) that revisits her years in colonial Kenya through reflective, nostalgic essays that complement her earlier work "Out of Africa."
  • B. The Death of the Flowers
    "The Death of the Flowers" is a reflective lyric poem by William Cullen Bryant that meditates on autumn’s fading beauty and the transience of life.
  • C. The Dawns Here Are Quiet
    The Dawns Here Are Quiet is a Russian war drama film (originally a Soviet-era story) about a group of young female anti-aircraft gunners fighting in a remote forest during World War II.
  • D. A Long Day’s Dying
    A Long Day’s Dying is a 1950 novel by American writer and theologian Frederick Buechner, known for its introspective, literary exploration of faith, doubt, and human relationships.
  • E. The Place of Dead Roads
    The Place of Dead Roads is a surreal, nonlinear novel by William S. Burroughs that blends Western motifs, science fiction, and experimental prose to explore themes of death, sexuality, and control.
  • 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: The Dying Grass
Triple: [William T. Vollmann, notableWork, The Dying Grass]
Generated description
The Dying Grass is a sprawling historical novel by William T. Vollmann that chronicles the Nez Perce War of 1877 in his characteristically dense, experimental style.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Dying Grass
Target entity description: The Dying Grass is a sprawling historical novel by William T. Vollmann that chronicles the Nez Perce War of 1877 in his characteristically dense, experimental style.
  • A. Shadows on the Grass
    "Shadows on the Grass" is a memoir by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) that revisits her years in colonial Kenya through reflective, nostalgic essays that complement her earlier work "Out of Africa."
  • B. The Death of the Flowers
    "The Death of the Flowers" is a reflective lyric poem by William Cullen Bryant that meditates on autumn’s fading beauty and the transience of life.
  • C. The Dawns Here Are Quiet
    The Dawns Here Are Quiet is a Russian war drama film (originally a Soviet-era story) about a group of young female anti-aircraft gunners fighting in a remote forest during World War II.
  • D. A Long Day’s Dying
    A Long Day’s Dying is a 1950 novel by American writer and theologian Frederick Buechner, known for its introspective, literary exploration of faith, doubt, and human relationships.
  • E. The Place of Dead Roads
    The Place of Dead Roads is a surreal, nonlinear novel by William S. Burroughs that blends Western motifs, science fiction, and experimental prose to explore themes of death, sexuality, and control.
  • 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.