Triple

T505738
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Pynchon E10498 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49 is a short postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon that follows Oedipa Maas as she uncovers a possibly conspiratorial underground postal system, exploring themes of communication, entropy, and paranoia.
 E63178 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: The Crying of Lot 49 | Statement: [Thomas Pynchon, notableWork, The Crying of Lot 49]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Crying of Lot 49
Context triple: [Thomas Pynchon, notableWork, The Crying of Lot 49]
  • A. Gravity’s Rainbow
    Gravity’s Rainbow is a dense, postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon that intertwines World War II-era espionage, science, and paranoia in a sprawling, experimental narrative.
  • B. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
    "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" is the fourth comedic science fiction novel in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, following Arthur Dent's return to a mysteriously restored Earth and his romance with the enigmatic Fenchurch.
  • C. Naked Lunch
    Naked Lunch is a groundbreaking and controversial novel by William S. Burroughs, known for its nonlinear, hallucinatory depiction of addiction and its central place in Beat Generation literature.
  • D. Inherent Vice
    Inherent Vice is a 2009 neo-noir novel by Thomas Pynchon that follows a stoner private detective navigating a psychedelic, conspiracy-laced Los Angeles at the end of the 1960s.
  • E. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a comic science fiction detective novel by Douglas Adams that follows the eccentric "holistic detective" Dirk Gently as he solves mysteries through the interconnectedness of all things.
  • 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: The Crying of Lot 49
Triple: [Thomas Pynchon, notableWork, The Crying of Lot 49]
Generated description
The Crying of Lot 49 is a short postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon that follows Oedipa Maas as she uncovers a possibly conspiratorial underground postal system, exploring themes of communication, entropy, and paranoia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Crying of Lot 49
Target entity description: The Crying of Lot 49 is a short postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon that follows Oedipa Maas as she uncovers a possibly conspiratorial underground postal system, exploring themes of communication, entropy, and paranoia.
  • A. Gravity’s Rainbow
    Gravity’s Rainbow is a dense, postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon that intertwines World War II-era espionage, science, and paranoia in a sprawling, experimental narrative.
  • B. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
    "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" is the fourth comedic science fiction novel in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, following Arthur Dent's return to a mysteriously restored Earth and his romance with the enigmatic Fenchurch.
  • C. Naked Lunch
    Naked Lunch is a groundbreaking and controversial novel by William S. Burroughs, known for its nonlinear, hallucinatory depiction of addiction and its central place in Beat Generation literature.
  • D. Inherent Vice
    Inherent Vice is a 2009 neo-noir novel by Thomas Pynchon that follows a stoner private detective navigating a psychedelic, conspiracy-laced Los Angeles at the end of the 1960s.
  • E. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
    Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a comic science fiction detective novel by Douglas Adams that follows the eccentric "holistic detective" Dirk Gently as he solves mysteries through the interconnectedness of all things.
  • 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_69a2e848adf881908e5e04f7af030093 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f14b2acc8190818e8a53eac69c54 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4984eed2481909d16332d6034bedf completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4991506808190a96386726cd0212e completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a499dbfdf08190bedce53795790963 completed March 1, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.