Triple

T5293201
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award E119791 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Donald E. Westlake
Donald E. Westlake was a prolific American crime and mystery novelist best known for his witty Dortmunder series and his darker Parker novels written under the pseudonym Richard Stark.
E510595 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: Donald E. Westlake | Statement: [Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award, hasRecipient, Donald E. Westlake]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald E. Westlake
Context triple: [Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award, hasRecipient, Donald E. Westlake]
  • A. Robert B. Parker
    Robert B. Parker was an American crime fiction author best known for his long-running Spenser detective novel series.
  • B. Ross Macdonald
    Ross Macdonald was an American-Canadian crime writer best known for his hardboiled Lew Archer detective novels, which helped elevate the psychological depth and literary status of mid-20th-century mystery fiction.
  • C. Evan Hunter
    Evan Hunter was an American author and screenwriter best known for his crime novels under the pen name Ed McBain and for writing the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptation of "The Birds."
  • D. Lawrence Block
    Lawrence Block is a prolific American crime and mystery novelist best known for his Matthew Scudder and Bernie Rhodenbarr series.
  • E. Mickey Spillane
    Mickey Spillane was an American crime novelist best known for his hard-boiled Mike Hammer detective series.
  • 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: Donald E. Westlake
Triple: [Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award, hasRecipient, Donald E. Westlake]
Generated description
Donald E. Westlake was a prolific American crime and mystery novelist best known for his witty Dortmunder series and his darker Parker novels written under the pseudonym Richard Stark.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald E. Westlake
Target entity description: Donald E. Westlake was a prolific American crime and mystery novelist best known for his witty Dortmunder series and his darker Parker novels written under the pseudonym Richard Stark.
  • A. Robert B. Parker
    Robert B. Parker was an American crime fiction author best known for his long-running Spenser detective novel series.
  • B. Ross Macdonald
    Ross Macdonald was an American-Canadian crime writer best known for his hardboiled Lew Archer detective novels, which helped elevate the psychological depth and literary status of mid-20th-century mystery fiction.
  • C. Evan Hunter
    Evan Hunter was an American author and screenwriter best known for his crime novels under the pen name Ed McBain and for writing the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaptation of "The Birds."
  • D. Lawrence Block
    Lawrence Block is a prolific American crime and mystery novelist best known for his Matthew Scudder and Bernie Rhodenbarr series.
  • E. Mickey Spillane
    Mickey Spillane was an American crime novelist best known for his hard-boiled Mike Hammer detective series.
  • 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_69bd446f22b88190b6a47fb91c68a3e7 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd84eec0c081908da5fad1b1fff9d6 completed March 20, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf10dfc2948190b65f5e4c9388a5cb completed March 21, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf11d5d22c819090bb78a9a5a941b6 completed March 21, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf124135f88190b4be475a4feecbad completed March 21, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:52 p.m.