Triple
T3090811
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William T. Vollmann |
E64475
|
entity |
| Predicate | awardReceived |
P11
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Whiting Award |
E308229
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Whiting Award | Statement: [William T. Vollmann, awardReceived, Whiting Award]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whiting Award Context triple: [William T. Vollmann, awardReceived, Whiting Award]
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A.
Whiting Writers' Award
chosen
The Whiting Writers' Award is a prestigious American literary prize that recognizes and supports emerging writers of exceptional talent in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
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B.
O. Henry Award
The O. Henry Award is a prestigious annual American prize recognizing outstanding short stories.
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C.
Lunning Prize
The Lunning Prize was a prestigious mid-20th-century design award recognizing outstanding young Scandinavian designers.
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D.
James Tait Black Memorial Prize
The James Tait Black Memorial Prize is one of the United Kingdom’s oldest and most prestigious literary awards, given annually for outstanding works of fiction and biography.
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E.
Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
The Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction is a prestigious literary honor awarded annually by the U.S. Library of Congress to recognize a writer’s lifetime achievement and significant contribution to American fiction.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ada20eeee88190a5eecfce10e3848c |
completed | March 8, 2026, 4:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b20364f8ac8190898b2aef195eb85f |
completed | March 12, 2026, 12:05 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:03 p.m.