Triple

T505740
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Pynchon E10498 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Mason & Dixon
Mason & Dixon is a postmodern historical novel by Thomas Pynchon that reimagines the lives and surveying expedition of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon with his signature blend of dense prose, dark humor, and metafictional playfulness.
 E62694 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: Mason & Dixon | Statement: [Thomas Pynchon, notableWork, Mason & Dixon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mason & Dixon
Context triple: [Thomas Pynchon, notableWork, Mason & Dixon]
  • A. Way Down East
    Way Down East is a 1920 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, renowned for its emotional storytelling and groundbreaking ice floe rescue sequence.
  • B. Quills
    Quills is a 2000 period drama film that fictionalizes the final years of the Marquis de Sade, featuring Geoffrey Rush in a critically acclaimed leading role.
  • C. Het Hogeland
    Het Hogeland is a coastal municipality in the northern Netherlands known for its open landscapes, historic villages, and Wadden Sea shoreline.
  • D. The Lady of the Aroostook
    The Lady of the Aroostook is an 1879 novel by American author William Dean Howells that follows a young New England woman’s transatlantic voyage and explores themes of social class, romance, and cultural contrast.
  • E. A World Apart
    "A World Apart" is a memoir by Polish writer Gustaw Herling-Grudziński that recounts his harrowing experiences in a Soviet Gulag during World War II.
  • 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: Mason & Dixon
Triple: [Thomas Pynchon, notableWork, Mason & Dixon]
Generated description
Mason & Dixon is a postmodern historical novel by Thomas Pynchon that reimagines the lives and surveying expedition of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon with his signature blend of dense prose, dark humor, and metafictional playfulness.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mason & Dixon
Target entity description: Mason & Dixon is a postmodern historical novel by Thomas Pynchon that reimagines the lives and surveying expedition of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon with his signature blend of dense prose, dark humor, and metafictional playfulness.
  • A. Way Down East
    Way Down East is a 1920 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, renowned for its emotional storytelling and groundbreaking ice floe rescue sequence.
  • B. Quills
    Quills is a 2000 period drama film that fictionalizes the final years of the Marquis de Sade, featuring Geoffrey Rush in a critically acclaimed leading role.
  • C. Het Hogeland
    Het Hogeland is a coastal municipality in the northern Netherlands known for its open landscapes, historic villages, and Wadden Sea shoreline.
  • D. The Lady of the Aroostook
    The Lady of the Aroostook is an 1879 novel by American author William Dean Howells that follows a young New England woman’s transatlantic voyage and explores themes of social class, romance, and cultural contrast.
  • E. A World Apart
    "A World Apart" is a memoir by Polish writer Gustaw Herling-Grudziński that recounts his harrowing experiences in a Soviet Gulag during World War II.
  • 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_69a48a7d47cc8190be1741f95f967f25 completed March 1, 2026, 6:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a48ae58a288190b4fa3e7a052477ca completed March 1, 2026, 6:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a48b35abe881909029c02557da0819 completed March 1, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.