Triple

T549392
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Don DeLillo E11803 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning, formally inventive novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad."
 E71022 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: Jennifer Egan | Statement: [Don DeLillo, influenced, Jennifer Egan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jennifer Egan
Context triple: [Don DeLillo, influenced, Jennifer Egan]
  • A. Jonathan Franzen
    Jonathan Franzen is an American novelist and essayist best known for his sprawling, character-driven social novels such as "The Corrections" and "Freedom," which explore contemporary family life and cultural anxieties.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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."
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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."
  • 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: Jennifer Egan
Triple: [Don DeLillo, influenced, Jennifer Egan]
Generated description
Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning, formally inventive novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jennifer Egan
Target entity description: Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning, formally inventive novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad."
  • A. Jonathan Franzen
    Jonathan Franzen is an American novelist and essayist best known for his sprawling, character-driven social novels such as "The Corrections" and "Freedom," which explore contemporary family life and cultural anxieties.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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."
  • D. 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.
  • E. 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."
  • 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_69a4932941d08190815efd422f0b4ca7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49901e4e481909a5ed93c21ab37bd completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4efcc641c8190b9538069fa88db94 completed March 2, 2026, 2:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4f0a7376081908eb2ebfeb731dab1 completed March 2, 2026, 2:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4f103ab10819081675ccae0b210b5 completed March 2, 2026, 2:08 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.