Triple
T4521059
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Appeal to Reason |
E103269
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableContributor |
P304
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Upton Sinclair |
E68786
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Upton Sinclair | Statement: [Appeal to Reason, notableContributor, Upton Sinclair]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Upton Sinclair Context triple: [Appeal to Reason, notableContributor, Upton Sinclair]
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A.
Upton Sinclair
chosen
Upton Sinclair was an American novelist and social reformer best known for his muckraking works like "The Jungle," which exposed industrial and social injustices in the early 20th century United States.
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B.
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist known for his naturalistic, unvarnished portrayals of urban life and social inequality in works such as "Sister Carrie" and "An American Tragedy."
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C.
Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist and playwright, best known for his satirical portrayals of middle-class life and for being the first U.S. writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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D.
Michael Gold
Michael Gold was an American writer and prominent proletarian literary figure best known for his radical leftist journalism and his influential novel "Jews Without Money."
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E.
John Howells
John Howells is a notable individual who shares the surname associated with the prominent Howells family name.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69bd43dba59881908cf59b31df8c7ae1 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd5749d95481908db0176459c096cf |
completed | March 20, 2026, 2:18 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bda43a82c08190b3d43efcee45a8ea |
completed | March 20, 2026, 7:47 p.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:02 p.m.