Triple

T5311891
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas de Quincey E119049 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an 1821 autobiographical work by Thomas De Quincey that vividly recounts his experiences with opium addiction and its psychological effects.
E510277 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: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | Statement: [Thomas de Quincey, notableWork, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Context triple: [Thomas de Quincey, notableWork, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater]
  • A. The Diary of a Mad Old Man
    "The Diary of a Mad Old Man" is a work by Croatian illustrator, animator, and filmmaker Milan Trenc, known for his distinctive, often surreal visual storytelling.
  • B. Diary of a Madman
    "Diary of a Madman" is a dark, horrorcore hip-hop track by the group Gravediggaz, known for its eerie production and macabre, narrative-driven lyrics.
  • C. The Tea-Table Miscellany
    The Tea-Table Miscellany is an influential early 18th-century collection of Scottish songs and ballads that helped popularize vernacular Scots literature.
  • D. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
    Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a 2009 independent film written and directed by John Krasinski, adapted from David Foster Wallace’s short story collection of the same name, exploring modern masculinity through a series of darkly comic interviews.
  • E. Letters on Familiar Matters
    Letters on Familiar Matters is an English title commonly used for Petrarch’s collection of personal Latin letters, the "Epistolae familiares," which offer insight into his life, relationships, and humanist thought.
  • 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: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Triple: [Thomas de Quincey, notableWork, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater]
Generated description
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an 1821 autobiographical work by Thomas De Quincey that vividly recounts his experiences with opium addiction and its psychological effects.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Target entity description: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an 1821 autobiographical work by Thomas De Quincey that vividly recounts his experiences with opium addiction and its psychological effects.
  • A. The Diary of a Mad Old Man
    "The Diary of a Mad Old Man" is a work by Croatian illustrator, animator, and filmmaker Milan Trenc, known for his distinctive, often surreal visual storytelling.
  • B. Diary of a Madman
    "Diary of a Madman" is a dark, horrorcore hip-hop track by the group Gravediggaz, known for its eerie production and macabre, narrative-driven lyrics.
  • C. The Tea-Table Miscellany
    The Tea-Table Miscellany is an influential early 18th-century collection of Scottish songs and ballads that helped popularize vernacular Scots literature.
  • D. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
    Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a 2009 independent film written and directed by John Krasinski, adapted from David Foster Wallace’s short story collection of the same name, exploring modern masculinity through a series of darkly comic interviews.
  • E. Letters on Familiar Matters
    Letters on Familiar Matters is an English title commonly used for Petrarch’s collection of personal Latin letters, the "Epistolae familiares," which offer insight into his life, relationships, and humanist thought.
  • 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_69bd446b57bc8190a513d2e6c40314f3 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd8535a1ec819094b2c5d3cfc57f56 completed March 20, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf1106ef9c8190811f7b70e784c962 completed March 21, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf11a601c481908a8cb6ea2c04d6df completed March 21, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf127799208190a47580ed7b9ad550 completed March 21, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:54 p.m.