Triple

T505768
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Pynchon E10498 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object 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."
E64719 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: Jonathan Lethem | Statement: [Thomas Pynchon, influenced, Jonathan Lethem]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jonathan Lethem
Context triple: [Thomas Pynchon, influenced, Jonathan Lethem]
  • A. 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."
  • B. William T. Vollmann
    William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for his ambitious, genre-blurring works that often explore violence, marginalization, and the moral complexities of history and contemporary society.
  • C. David Foster Wallace
    David Foster Wallace was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer best known for his encyclopedic, experimental novel "Infinite Jest" and his incisive explorations of contemporary culture, consciousness, and addiction.
  • D. Thomas Pynchon
    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."
  • E. William Faulks
    William Faulks is known as the son of British novelist Sebastian Faulks.
  • 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: Jonathan Lethem
Triple: [Thomas Pynchon, influenced, Jonathan Lethem]
Generated description
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."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jonathan Lethem
Target entity description: 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."
  • A. 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."
  • B. William T. Vollmann
    William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for his ambitious, genre-blurring works that often explore violence, marginalization, and the moral complexities of history and contemporary society.
  • C. David Foster Wallace
    David Foster Wallace was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer best known for his encyclopedic, experimental novel "Infinite Jest" and his incisive explorations of contemporary culture, consciousness, and addiction.
  • D. Thomas Pynchon
    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."
  • E. William Faulks
    William Faulks is known as the son of British novelist Sebastian Faulks.
  • 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_69a4a6fbbed08190a04ced56b6b9f3d9 completed March 1, 2026, 8:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4a763e16c819093fe004c0e3a01f6 completed March 1, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4a81379e48190983b9dafa0d00fcb completed March 1, 2026, 8:56 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.