Triple
T4806717
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Updike |
E106964
|
entity |
| Predicate | influenced |
P9
|
FINISHED |
| Object | David Foster Wallace |
E63902
|
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: David Foster Wallace | Statement: [John Updike, influenced, David Foster Wallace]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Foster Wallace Context triple: [John Updike, influenced, David Foster Wallace]
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A.
David Foster Wallace
chosen
David Foster Wallace was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer best known for his encyclopedic, experimental novel "Infinite Jest" and his incisive explorations of contemporary culture, consciousness, and addiction.
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B.
Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen is an American novelist and essayist best known for his sprawling, character-driven social novels such as "The Corrections" and "Freedom," which explore contemporary family life and cultural anxieties.
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C.
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers is an American author, editor, and publisher known for works like "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" and for founding the independent publishing house McSweeney’s and the literacy nonprofit 826 Valencia.
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D.
Rick Moody
Rick Moody is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, psychologically rich explorations of contemporary suburban life, including the novel "The Ice Storm."
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E.
Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem is an American novelist known for blending literary fiction with genre elements such as science fiction, detective stories, and pop culture, in works like "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude."
- 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_69bd43f6a1e08190bf0a372bfc336ee5 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd6c69099c8190956b6df42bb922c8 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 3:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be4da2a1808190bd8d0c073e4bad07 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 7:49 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:23 p.m.