Triple

T3277207
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Frank Norris E68785 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Vandover and the Brute
Vandover and the Brute is a naturalist novel by Frank Norris that explores a young man's moral and psychological degeneration in late 19th-century San Francisco.
E345397 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: Vandover and the Brute | Statement: [Frank Norris, notableWork, Vandover and the Brute]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vandover and the Brute
Context triple: [Frank Norris, notableWork, Vandover and the Brute]
  • A. Napoleon; or, the Man of the World
    "Napoleon; or, the Man of the World" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that portrays Napoleon Bonaparte as the archetype of worldly ambition and practical power within his collection *Representative Men*.
  • B. La Grenadière
    La Grenadière is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that portrays a mother’s quiet sacrifice and impending death in the French countryside, forming part of his larger Comédie Humaine cycle.
  • C. Life Among the Savages
    Life Among the Savages is a semi-autobiographical, humorous memoir by Shirley Jackson recounting her chaotic family life and motherhood in small-town Vermont.
  • D. Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams
    Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams is a 1794 novel by William Godwin that combines political critique with a suspenseful narrative about persecution, power, and social injustice in late 18th-century England.
  • E. Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand
    Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand is a Gothic melodramatic tragedy in verse by Charles Maturin that achieved great popularity on the early 19th-century British stage.
  • 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: Vandover and the Brute
Triple: [Frank Norris, notableWork, Vandover and the Brute]
Generated description
Vandover and the Brute is a naturalist novel by Frank Norris that explores a young man's moral and psychological degeneration in late 19th-century San Francisco.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vandover and the Brute
Target entity description: Vandover and the Brute is a naturalist novel by Frank Norris that explores a young man's moral and psychological degeneration in late 19th-century San Francisco.
  • A. Napoleon; or, the Man of the World
    "Napoleon; or, the Man of the World" is an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson that portrays Napoleon Bonaparte as the archetype of worldly ambition and practical power within his collection *Representative Men*.
  • B. La Grenadière
    La Grenadière is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that portrays a mother’s quiet sacrifice and impending death in the French countryside, forming part of his larger Comédie Humaine cycle.
  • C. Life Among the Savages
    Life Among the Savages is a semi-autobiographical, humorous memoir by Shirley Jackson recounting her chaotic family life and motherhood in small-town Vermont.
  • D. Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams
    Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams is a 1794 novel by William Godwin that combines political critique with a suspenseful narrative about persecution, power, and social injustice in late 18th-century England.
  • E. Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand
    Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand is a Gothic melodramatic tragedy in verse by Charles Maturin that achieved great popularity on the early 19th-century British stage.
  • 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_69ad859b54f881909bf530d549caf2fd completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb0128f08819084644f3c8fda2596 completed March 8, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2e84a3c2c8190908152fc042fcad1 completed March 12, 2026, 4:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2e939460481909743b49e274b693e completed March 12, 2026, 4:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2ecfd3c20819089bc0b2141aee8eb completed March 12, 2026, 4:42 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:10 p.m.