Triple

T3362093
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sherwood Anderson E70745 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Tar: A Midwest Childhood
Tar: A Midwest Childhood is a semi-autobiographical novel by Sherwood Anderson that nostalgically portrays small-town life and coming-of-age in the American Midwest.
 E351466 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: Tar: A Midwest Childhood | Statement: [Sherwood Anderson, notableWork, Tar: A Midwest Childhood]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tar: A Midwest Childhood
Context triple: [Sherwood Anderson, notableWork, Tar: A Midwest Childhood]
  • A. This Boy's Life
    "This Boy's Life" is a 1993 coming-of-age drama film, based on Tobias Wolff's memoir, in which a young Leonardo DiCaprio stars opposite Robert De Niro as a boy struggling with his abusive stepfather.
  • B. Wonder Boys
    Wonder Boys is a 2000 comedy-drama film directed by Curtis Hanson about a disillusioned college professor and novelist navigating a chaotic weekend that upends his personal and professional life.
  • C. The World According to Garp
    The World According to Garp is a darkly comic and poignant novel by John Irving that follows the unconventional life of writer T.S. Garp and explores themes of family, feminism, sexuality, and the randomness of violence.
  • D. Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
    "Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir" is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s nostalgic autobiographical account of her 1950s childhood and her deep bond with the Brooklyn Dodgers and baseball.
  • E. The Little American
    The Little American is a 1917 silent World War I drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Mary Pickford as an American woman caught between warring nations.
  • 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: Tar: A Midwest Childhood
Triple: [Sherwood Anderson, notableWork, Tar: A Midwest Childhood]
Generated description
Tar: A Midwest Childhood is a semi-autobiographical novel by Sherwood Anderson that nostalgically portrays small-town life and coming-of-age in the American Midwest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tar: A Midwest Childhood
Target entity description: Tar: A Midwest Childhood is a semi-autobiographical novel by Sherwood Anderson that nostalgically portrays small-town life and coming-of-age in the American Midwest.
  • A. This Boy's Life
    "This Boy's Life" is a 1993 coming-of-age drama film, based on Tobias Wolff's memoir, in which a young Leonardo DiCaprio stars opposite Robert De Niro as a boy struggling with his abusive stepfather.
  • B. Wonder Boys
    Wonder Boys is a 2000 comedy-drama film directed by Curtis Hanson about a disillusioned college professor and novelist navigating a chaotic weekend that upends his personal and professional life.
  • C. The World According to Garp
    The World According to Garp is a darkly comic and poignant novel by John Irving that follows the unconventional life of writer T.S. Garp and explores themes of family, feminism, sexuality, and the randomness of violence.
  • D. Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
    "Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir" is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s nostalgic autobiographical account of her 1950s childhood and her deep bond with the Brooklyn Dodgers and baseball.
  • E. The Little American
    The Little American is a 1917 silent World War I drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Mary Pickford as an American woman caught between warring nations.
  • 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_69ad85a660c48190998489309a3b4869 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb26906948190851a7b7d543a4d64 completed March 8, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b32546651481908dc6ab15b3344788 completed March 12, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b3280b712c8190875d5d35a1795bcd completed March 12, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b328ad98cc819092f5b92eb4abd1b7 completed March 12, 2026, 8:57 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:13 p.m.