Triple
T4861834
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Neal Stephenson |
E108677
|
entity |
| Predicate | influencedBy |
P9
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas Pynchon |
E10498
|
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: Thomas Pynchon | Statement: [Neal Stephenson, influencedBy, Thomas Pynchon]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Pynchon Context triple: [Neal Stephenson, influencedBy, Thomas Pynchon]
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A.
Thomas Pynchon
chosen
Thomas Pynchon is a reclusive American novelist known for his dense, complex, and postmodern works such as "Gravity’s Rainbow" and "The Crying of Lot 49."
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B.
Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo is a critically acclaimed American novelist known for his postmodern works that explore themes of consumerism, technology, and the anxieties of contemporary life, including novels such as "White Noise" and "Underworld."
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C.
William Gaddis
William Gaddis was an American postmodern novelist known for his dense, allusive, and formally experimental works such as "The Recognitions" and "JR."
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D.
E. L. Doctorow
E. L. Doctorow was an acclaimed American novelist known for his innovative works of historical fiction, including "Ragtime" and "Billy Bathgate."
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E.
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut was an American novelist and satirist known for his darkly humorous, genre-blending works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle."
- 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_69bd440b965081908b0557721cae6338 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd6d5f62b48190b367ed1b850cfbcb |
completed | March 20, 2026, 3:53 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be5cf921cc8190a092bb69c1981890 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 8:55 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:26 p.m.