Triple

T505742
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Pynchon E10498 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object 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.
E62695 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: Inherent Vice | Statement: [Thomas Pynchon, notableWork, Inherent Vice]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Inherent Vice
Context triple: [Thomas Pynchon, notableWork, Inherent Vice]
  • A. The Killer Inside Me
    The Killer Inside Me is a 2010 neo-noir crime thriller film, based on Jim Thompson’s novel, in which Casey Affleck plays a seemingly mild-mannered small-town deputy sheriff hiding a violent psychopathic nature.
  • B. Stumptown
    Stumptown is a historic nickname for Portland, Oregon, referencing the city’s rapid 19th-century growth that left tree stumps scattered throughout the area.
  • C. The Golden House
    The Golden House is a lesser-known 19th-century novel by American essayist and humorist Charles Dudley Warner.
  • D. Gone Baby Gone
    Gone Baby Gone is a 2007 crime drama film directed by Ben Affleck, following two private investigators searching for a missing girl in a morally complex Boston neighborhood.
  • 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: Inherent Vice
Triple: [Thomas Pynchon, notableWork, Inherent Vice]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Inherent Vice
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. The Killer Inside Me
    The Killer Inside Me is a 2010 neo-noir crime thriller film, based on Jim Thompson’s novel, in which Casey Affleck plays a seemingly mild-mannered small-town deputy sheriff hiding a violent psychopathic nature.
  • B. Stumptown
    Stumptown is a historic nickname for Portland, Oregon, referencing the city’s rapid 19th-century growth that left tree stumps scattered throughout the area.
  • C. The Golden House
    The Golden House is a lesser-known 19th-century novel by American essayist and humorist Charles Dudley Warner.
  • D. Gone Baby Gone
    Gone Baby Gone is a 2007 crime drama film directed by Ben Affleck, following two private investigators searching for a missing girl in a morally complex Boston neighborhood.
  • 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_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.