Triple

T3374004
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction E71021 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson was an American writer acclaimed for his haunting, lyrical fiction and poetry, best known for works like "Jesus' Son" and the National Book Award–winning novel "Tree of Smoke."
E352262 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: Denis Johnson | Statement: [Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, notableRecipient, Denis Johnson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Denis Johnson
Context triple: [Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, notableRecipient, Denis Johnson]
  • A. Tobias Wolff
    Tobias Wolff is an American author and memoirist renowned for his autobiographical works and short stories exploring memory, identity, and moral ambiguity.
  • B. Raymond Carver
    Raymond Carver was an American short story writer and poet renowned for his minimalist, emotionally resonant depictions of working-class life.
  • C. Cormac McCarthy
    Cormac McCarthy was an American novelist renowned for his bleak, lyrical prose and violent, existential explorations of the American South and West in works such as "Blood Meridian" and "The Road."
  • D. 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.
  • E. Adam Johnson
    Adam Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his novel "The Orphan Master's Son," which explores life in North Korea.
  • 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: Denis Johnson
Triple: [Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, notableRecipient, Denis Johnson]
Generated description
Denis Johnson was an American writer acclaimed for his haunting, lyrical fiction and poetry, best known for works like "Jesus' Son" and the National Book Award–winning novel "Tree of Smoke."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Denis Johnson
Target entity description: Denis Johnson was an American writer acclaimed for his haunting, lyrical fiction and poetry, best known for works like "Jesus' Son" and the National Book Award–winning novel "Tree of Smoke."
  • A. Tobias Wolff
    Tobias Wolff is an American author and memoirist renowned for his autobiographical works and short stories exploring memory, identity, and moral ambiguity.
  • B. Raymond Carver
    Raymond Carver was an American short story writer and poet renowned for his minimalist, emotionally resonant depictions of working-class life.
  • C. Cormac McCarthy
    Cormac McCarthy was an American novelist renowned for his bleak, lyrical prose and violent, existential explorations of the American South and West in works such as "Blood Meridian" and "The Road."
  • D. 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.
  • E. Adam Johnson
    Adam Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his novel "The Orphan Master's Son," which explores life in North Korea.
  • 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_69ad85a7f80c8190a05e43013f298942 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb2bf4ad88190a2c49dc30f323a13 completed March 8, 2026, 5:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b33442f28c8190b48a662a5dd1bac3 completed March 12, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b334bd2cf081908503cb4cbdfc998c completed March 12, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b33529b31c8190811a659df8c5d2d4 completed March 12, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:13 p.m.