Triple
T3090800
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William T. Vollmann |
E64475
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Poor People
Poor People is a nonfiction book by William T. Vollmann that examines global poverty through on-the-ground interviews, reportage, and philosophical reflection.
|
E325403
|
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: Poor People | Statement: [William T. Vollmann, notableWork, Poor People]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Poor People Context triple: [William T. Vollmann, notableWork, Poor People]
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A.
Poor Folk
Poor Folk is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s debut epistolary novel that portrays the struggles and inner lives of impoverished clerks in 19th-century St. Petersburg.
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B.
No Name in the Street
No Name in the Street is James Baldwin’s 1972 autobiographical and political essay collection reflecting on race, civil rights, and his personal experiences in mid-20th-century America.
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C.
Mama Tried
"Mama Tried" is a classic 1968 country song by Merle Haggard that reflects on regret and personal responsibility from the perspective of an imprisoned man.
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D.
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
"Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out" is a classic blues standard, famously recorded by Bessie Smith, that tells a cautionary tale about lost wealth and abandoned friendships.
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E.
White Angel Breadline
White Angel Breadline is a famous 1933 photograph by Dorothea Lange depicting unemployed men waiting in a breadline during the Great Depression, emblematic of the era’s hardship and despair.
- 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: Poor People Triple: [William T. Vollmann, notableWork, Poor People]
Generated description
Poor People is a nonfiction book by William T. Vollmann that examines global poverty through on-the-ground interviews, reportage, and philosophical reflection.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Poor People Target entity description: Poor People is a nonfiction book by William T. Vollmann that examines global poverty through on-the-ground interviews, reportage, and philosophical reflection.
-
A.
Poor Folk
Poor Folk is Fyodor Dostoevsky’s debut epistolary novel that portrays the struggles and inner lives of impoverished clerks in 19th-century St. Petersburg.
-
B.
No Name in the Street
No Name in the Street is James Baldwin’s 1972 autobiographical and political essay collection reflecting on race, civil rights, and his personal experiences in mid-20th-century America.
-
C.
Mama Tried
"Mama Tried" is a classic 1968 country song by Merle Haggard that reflects on regret and personal responsibility from the perspective of an imprisoned man.
-
D.
Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
"Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out" is a classic blues standard, famously recorded by Bessie Smith, that tells a cautionary tale about lost wealth and abandoned friendships.
-
E.
White Angel Breadline
White Angel Breadline is a famous 1933 photograph by Dorothea Lange depicting unemployed men waiting in a breadline during the Great Depression, emblematic of the era’s hardship and despair.
- 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.