Triple

T3949437
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lee Child E84826 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Hard Way
The Hard Way is a thriller novel in Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series, featuring the ex-military drifter investigating a high-stakes kidnapping conspiracy.
E401420 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: The Hard Way | Statement: [Lee Child, notableWork, The Hard Way]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Hard Way
Context triple: [Lee Child, notableWork, The Hard Way]
  • A. The Hard Way
    "The Hard Way" is a 1992 country music album by American singer-songwriter Clint Black that continued his early commercial success with a polished, contemporary sound.
  • B. The Hard Way
    The Hard Way is a 1991 action-comedy film in which James Woods plays a tough New York cop reluctantly partnered with a pampered Hollywood actor, played by Michael J. Fox, who wants to learn how to be a real detective.
  • C. Hard Way
    "Hard Way" is a song featured on the album "All I Want Is You."
  • D. A Way Out of No Way
    A Way Out of No Way is a memoir by civil rights leader and former U.S. ambassador Andrew Young, recounting his life and work in the struggle for racial justice and public service.
  • E. If There Was a Way
    If There Was a Way is a 1990 country music album by Dwight Yoakam that blends traditional honky-tonk with contemporary influences and is often praised as one of his strongest releases.
  • 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: The Hard Way
Triple: [Lee Child, notableWork, The Hard Way]
Generated description
The Hard Way is a thriller novel in Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series, featuring the ex-military drifter investigating a high-stakes kidnapping conspiracy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Hard Way
Target entity description: The Hard Way is a thriller novel in Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series, featuring the ex-military drifter investigating a high-stakes kidnapping conspiracy.
  • A. The Hard Way
    "The Hard Way" is a 1992 country music album by American singer-songwriter Clint Black that continued his early commercial success with a polished, contemporary sound.
  • B. The Hard Way
    The Hard Way is a 1991 action-comedy film in which James Woods plays a tough New York cop reluctantly partnered with a pampered Hollywood actor, played by Michael J. Fox, who wants to learn how to be a real detective.
  • C. Hard Way
    "Hard Way" is a song featured on the album "All I Want Is You."
  • D. A Way Out of No Way
    A Way Out of No Way is a memoir by civil rights leader and former U.S. ambassador Andrew Young, recounting his life and work in the struggle for racial justice and public service.
  • E. If There Was a Way
    If There Was a Way is a 1990 country music album by Dwight Yoakam that blends traditional honky-tonk with contemporary influences and is often praised as one of his strongest releases.
  • 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_69aed934fbfc8190847068e4546de963 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aef910ecc08190a4fca89bcf063e0c completed March 9, 2026, 4:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5339feb4c8190ad96a5680cb5294e completed March 14, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5346fb3648190b2b72e10179588ed completed March 14, 2026, 10:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b534e98b8081909c2b71ff20fe0bb4 completed March 14, 2026, 10:14 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:30 p.m.