Triple

T551376
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Lost City of Z E11846 entity
Predicate basedOnAuthor P2806 FINISHED
Object David Grann
David Grann is an American journalist and bestselling author known for his meticulously researched narrative nonfiction works such as "The Lost City of Z" and "Killers of the Flower Moon."
E68538 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: David Grann | Statement: [The Lost City of Z, basedOnAuthor, David Grann]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Grann
Context triple: [The Lost City of Z, basedOnAuthor, David Grann]
  • A. Lawrence Wright
    Lawrence Wright is an American journalist, author, and screenwriter best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative nonfiction works on topics such as terrorism and Scientology.
  • B. Kai Bird
    Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
  • C. 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.
  • D. William Faulks
    William Faulks is known as the son of British novelist Sebastian Faulks.
  • E. Sylvia Nasar
    Sylvia Nasar is an American journalist and author best known for writing the acclaimed biography "A Beautiful Mind" about mathematician John Nash.
  • 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: David Grann
Triple: [The Lost City of Z, basedOnAuthor, David Grann]
Generated description
David Grann is an American journalist and bestselling author known for his meticulously researched narrative nonfiction works such as "The Lost City of Z" and "Killers of the Flower Moon."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Grann
Target entity description: David Grann is an American journalist and bestselling author known for his meticulously researched narrative nonfiction works such as "The Lost City of Z" and "Killers of the Flower Moon."
  • A. Lawrence Wright
    Lawrence Wright is an American journalist, author, and screenwriter best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative nonfiction works on topics such as terrorism and Scientology.
  • B. Kai Bird
    Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
  • C. 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.
  • D. William Faulks
    William Faulks is known as the son of British novelist Sebastian Faulks.
  • E. Sylvia Nasar
    Sylvia Nasar is an American journalist and author best known for writing the acclaimed biography "A Beautiful Mind" about mathematician John Nash.
  • 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_69a499030cf4819089b9163102255e49 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4e0314c84819091d8aca4be0733f3 completed March 2, 2026, 12:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4e05146108190bc6de454c0bb7ef6 completed March 2, 2026, 12:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4e0e070a08190a61d047fc16fb73e completed March 2, 2026, 12:59 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.