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]
  • 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
  • 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.