Triple

T4398913
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Erskine E99563 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Erskine Caldwell
Erskine Caldwell was an American author best known for his novels and short stories depicting poverty and social issues in the rural American South, including works like "Tobacco Road" and "God's Little Acre."
E435514 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: Erskine Caldwell | Statement: [Erskine, hasNotableBearer, Erskine Caldwell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Erskine Caldwell
Context triple: [Erskine, hasNotableBearer, Erskine Caldwell]
  • A. William Aiken
    William Aiken was a prominent 19th-century South Carolina politician and governor whose influence led to places such as Aiken County being named in his honor.
  • B. Walter Van Tilburg Clark
    Walter Van Tilburg Clark was an American author best known for his classic Western novel "The Ox-Bow Incident," which explores themes of mob justice and moral responsibility.
  • C. T.S. Nowlin
    T.S. Nowlin is an American screenwriter best known for his work on major science fiction and action films, including entries in the Maze Runner series and other blockbuster franchises.
  • D. Hamlin Garland
    Hamlin Garland was an American author best known for his realistic portrayals of Midwestern farm life and his influential role in the development of regionalist, or local color, fiction.
  • E. Cecil Purdy
    Cecil Purdy was an Australian chess player, writer, and the first official World Correspondence Chess Champion, renowned for his instructional contributions to the game.
  • 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: Erskine Caldwell
Triple: [Erskine, hasNotableBearer, Erskine Caldwell]
Generated description
Erskine Caldwell was an American author best known for his novels and short stories depicting poverty and social issues in the rural American South, including works like "Tobacco Road" and "God's Little Acre."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Erskine Caldwell
Target entity description: Erskine Caldwell was an American author best known for his novels and short stories depicting poverty and social issues in the rural American South, including works like "Tobacco Road" and "God's Little Acre."
  • A. William Aiken
    William Aiken was a prominent 19th-century South Carolina politician and governor whose influence led to places such as Aiken County being named in his honor.
  • B. Walter Van Tilburg Clark
    Walter Van Tilburg Clark was an American author best known for his classic Western novel "The Ox-Bow Incident," which explores themes of mob justice and moral responsibility.
  • C. T.S. Nowlin
    T.S. Nowlin is an American screenwriter best known for his work on major science fiction and action films, including entries in the Maze Runner series and other blockbuster franchises.
  • D. Hamlin Garland
    Hamlin Garland was an American author best known for his realistic portrayals of Midwestern farm life and his influential role in the development of regionalist, or local color, fiction.
  • E. Cecil Purdy
    Cecil Purdy was an Australian chess player, writer, and the first official World Correspondence Chess Champion, renowned for his instructional contributions to the game.
  • 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_69b345506b408190b0e3dee616738a7d completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b352cc4ab081908bc45d2f76cd4da8 completed March 12, 2026, 11:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5e53d34cc81909969d86efc441dee completed March 14, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5e6562abc8190bbd7b8ffdfcd0f14 completed March 14, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5e6b800d48190bed53f28b767471e completed March 14, 2026, 10:52 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:20 p.m.