Triple

T5380512
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject J. M. Coetzee E113069 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Elizabeth Costello
Elizabeth Costello is a 2003 novel by J. M. Coetzee that follows an aging Australian writer whose public lectures and personal crises explore ethics, literature, and the limits of reason.
E515405 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: Elizabeth Costello | Statement: [J. M. Coetzee, notableWork, Elizabeth Costello]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elizabeth Costello
Context triple: [J. M. Coetzee, notableWork, Elizabeth Costello]
  • A. Babette Gladney
    Babette Gladney is a central figure in Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise," portrayed as the anxious, warm-hearted wife of protagonist Jack Gladney whose fear of death and secret use of an experimental drug drive much of the story’s emotional tension.
  • B. Shirley Feeney
    Shirley Feeney is a cheerful, optimistic Milwaukee brewery worker and one of the two titular roommates in the classic American sitcom "Laverne & Shirley."
  • C. Marcella Niehoff
    Marcella Niehoff was a pioneering American nurse and educator whose legacy in advancing nursing education is commemorated by the nursing school that bears her name.
  • D. Beatrice Silverman
    Beatrice Silverman was the first wife of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer, whom he married while a student at Harvard.
  • E. Beatrice O’Brien
    Beatrice O’Brien was the first wife of Italian inventor and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi, with whom she had several children before their marriage was annulled.
  • 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: Elizabeth Costello
Triple: [J. M. Coetzee, notableWork, Elizabeth Costello]
Generated description
Elizabeth Costello is a 2003 novel by J. M. Coetzee that follows an aging Australian writer whose public lectures and personal crises explore ethics, literature, and the limits of reason.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elizabeth Costello
Target entity description: Elizabeth Costello is a 2003 novel by J. M. Coetzee that follows an aging Australian writer whose public lectures and personal crises explore ethics, literature, and the limits of reason.
  • A. Babette Gladney
    Babette Gladney is a central figure in Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise," portrayed as the anxious, warm-hearted wife of protagonist Jack Gladney whose fear of death and secret use of an experimental drug drive much of the story’s emotional tension.
  • B. Shirley Feeney
    Shirley Feeney is a cheerful, optimistic Milwaukee brewery worker and one of the two titular roommates in the classic American sitcom "Laverne & Shirley."
  • C. Marcella Niehoff
    Marcella Niehoff was a pioneering American nurse and educator whose legacy in advancing nursing education is commemorated by the nursing school that bears her name.
  • D. Beatrice Silverman
    Beatrice Silverman was the first wife of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer, whom he married while a student at Harvard.
  • E. Beatrice O’Brien
    Beatrice O’Brien was the first wife of Italian inventor and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi, with whom she had several children before their marriage was annulled.
  • 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_69bd4436a1988190af18dcff7fd306b4 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd86ce56c88190a66b3852416edccb completed March 20, 2026, 5:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf2949cd9881908ca0d8fdf1642f71 completed March 21, 2026, 11:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf2a46c4808190bd706cbb76bbfbc2 completed March 21, 2026, 11:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf2ab19a50819098ef5a611daa8cd6 completed March 21, 2026, 11:33 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:03 p.m.