Triple
T4806719
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Updike |
E106964
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entity |
| Predicate | influenced |
P9
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Nicholson Baker
Nicholson Baker is an American novelist and essayist known for his meticulous attention to everyday detail, inventive prose style, and works such as "The Mezzanine" and "Vox."
|
E474220
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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: Nicholson Baker | Statement: [John Updike, influenced, Nicholson Baker]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholson Baker Context triple: [John Updike, influenced, Nicholson Baker]
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A.
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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B.
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."
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C.
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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D.
Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff is an American author and memoirist renowned for his autobiographical works and short stories exploring memory, identity, and moral ambiguity.
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E.
Thomas Wolff
Thomas Wolff was an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
- 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: Nicholson Baker Triple: [John Updike, influenced, Nicholson Baker]
Generated description
Nicholson Baker is an American novelist and essayist known for his meticulous attention to everyday detail, inventive prose style, and works such as "The Mezzanine" and "Vox."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholson Baker Target entity description: Nicholson Baker is an American novelist and essayist known for his meticulous attention to everyday detail, inventive prose style, and works such as "The Mezzanine" and "Vox."
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A.
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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B.
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."
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C.
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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D.
Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff is an American author and memoirist renowned for his autobiographical works and short stories exploring memory, identity, and moral ambiguity.
-
E.
Thomas Wolff
Thomas Wolff was an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
- 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_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_69be5ca47a588190ac15fabfdab8b2da |
completed | March 21, 2026, 8:53 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69be5f2c3d0c819094a67f6728f2c1b2 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 9:04 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69be5fd33a3c81908b23f7a31bfea53c |
completed | March 21, 2026, 9:07 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:23 p.m.