Triple

T545153
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Émile Zola E12715 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist known for his naturalistic, unvarnished portrayals of urban life and social inequality in works such as "Sister Carrie" and "An American Tragedy."
E68141 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: Theodore Dreiser | Statement: [Émile Zola, influenced, Theodore Dreiser]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodore Dreiser
Context triple: [Émile Zola, influenced, Theodore Dreiser]
  • A. William Dean Howells
    William Dean Howells was a prominent 19th-century American realist author, critic, and editor often called the "Dean of American Letters."
  • B. Jack London
    Jack London was an American novelist and short-story writer best known for adventure classics such as "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang."
  • C. Henry James
    Henry James was an influential American-born British author known for his psychologically complex novels and stories exploring consciousness, perception, and social relationships.
  • D. Stephen Crane
    Stephen Crane was an influential American author and journalist best known for his novel "The Red Badge of Courage" and his pioneering contributions to literary realism and naturalism.
  • E. Wallace Thurman
    Wallace Thurman was an American novelist, editor, and critic best known for his central role in the Harlem Renaissance and his novel "The Blacker the Berry."
  • 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: Theodore Dreiser
Triple: [Émile Zola, influenced, Theodore Dreiser]
Generated description
Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist known for his naturalistic, unvarnished portrayals of urban life and social inequality in works such as "Sister Carrie" and "An American Tragedy."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodore Dreiser
Target entity description: Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist known for his naturalistic, unvarnished portrayals of urban life and social inequality in works such as "Sister Carrie" and "An American Tragedy."
  • A. William Dean Howells
    William Dean Howells was a prominent 19th-century American realist author, critic, and editor often called the "Dean of American Letters."
  • B. Jack London
    Jack London was an American novelist and short-story writer best known for adventure classics such as "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang."
  • C. Henry James
    Henry James was an influential American-born British author known for his psychologically complex novels and stories exploring consciousness, perception, and social relationships.
  • D. Stephen Crane
    Stephen Crane was an influential American author and journalist best known for his novel "The Red Badge of Courage" and his pioneering contributions to literary realism and naturalism.
  • E. Wallace Thurman
    Wallace Thurman was an American novelist, editor, and critic best known for his central role in the Harlem Renaissance and his novel "The Blacker the Berry."
  • 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_69a49334226c81908b0ea1689ef6aa3f completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a498dfec5c81908b76d723b30dc2f0 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4d042a590819096ed622dc6bcf8e4 completed March 1, 2026, 11:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4d0a6aa508190b8a29de838d2dbb0 completed March 1, 2026, 11:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4d114973c81908c3d8fb393f9ee14 completed March 1, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.