Triple
T3101124
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Jonathan Lethem |
E64719
|
entity |
| Predicate | influencedBy |
P9
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas Pynchon |
E10498
|
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: Thomas Pynchon | Statement: [Jonathan Lethem, influencedBy, Thomas Pynchon]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Pynchon Context triple: [Jonathan Lethem, influencedBy, Thomas Pynchon]
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A.
Thomas Pynchon
chosen
Thomas Pynchon is a reclusive American novelist known for his dense, complex, and postmodern works such as "Gravity’s Rainbow" and "The Crying of Lot 49."
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B.
Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo is a critically acclaimed American novelist known for his postmodern works that explore themes of consumerism, technology, and the anxieties of contemporary life, including novels such as "White Noise" and "Underworld."
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C.
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut was an American novelist and satirist known for his darkly humorous, genre-blending works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle."
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D.
Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem is an American novelist known for blending literary fiction with genre elements such as science fiction, detective stories, and pop culture, in works like "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude."
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E.
William T. Vollmann
William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for his ambitious, genre-blurring works that often explore violence, marginalization, and the moral complexities of history and contemporary society.
- 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_69ad857dc98481909e585dc3372e3ed5 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ada26c76ec81908d11f82be573c518 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 4:23 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b24b2a9b648190a74c7691cc7a4959 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 5:12 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:03 p.m.