Triple

T5811661
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Matthew Arnold E128880 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Lionel Trilling
Lionel Trilling was a prominent 20th-century American literary critic and Columbia University professor known for his influential essays on liberalism, culture, and the moral dimensions of literature.
E547617 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: Lionel Trilling | Statement: [Matthew Arnold, influenced, Lionel Trilling]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lionel Trilling
Context triple: [Matthew Arnold, influenced, Lionel Trilling]
  • A. Alfred Kazin
    Alfred Kazin was an influential American literary critic and historian best known for his studies of American literature and his memoir "A Walker in the City."
  • B. Stanley Edgar Hyman
    Stanley Edgar Hyman was an American literary critic and professor known for his influential work in myth, folklore, and structuralist criticism, as well as his role in mid-20th-century American letters.
  • C. Irving Howe
    Irving Howe was an influential American literary and social critic, democratic socialist, and co-founder of the journal Dissent, known for his writings on politics, culture, and Yiddish literature.
  • D. Philip Van Doren Stern
    Philip Van Doren Stern was an American author, editor, and historian best known for writing the short story that inspired the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."
  • E. Diana Trilling Schiffrin
    Diana Trilling Schiffrin was an American literary critic and editor known for her work in publishing and her involvement in mid-20th-century intellectual circles.
  • 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: Lionel Trilling
Triple: [Matthew Arnold, influenced, Lionel Trilling]
Generated description
Lionel Trilling was a prominent 20th-century American literary critic and Columbia University professor known for his influential essays on liberalism, culture, and the moral dimensions of literature.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lionel Trilling
Target entity description: Lionel Trilling was a prominent 20th-century American literary critic and Columbia University professor known for his influential essays on liberalism, culture, and the moral dimensions of literature.
  • A. Alfred Kazin
    Alfred Kazin was an influential American literary critic and historian best known for his studies of American literature and his memoir "A Walker in the City."
  • B. Stanley Edgar Hyman
    Stanley Edgar Hyman was an American literary critic and professor known for his influential work in myth, folklore, and structuralist criticism, as well as his role in mid-20th-century American letters.
  • C. Irving Howe
    Irving Howe was an influential American literary and social critic, democratic socialist, and co-founder of the journal Dissent, known for his writings on politics, culture, and Yiddish literature.
  • D. Philip Van Doren Stern
    Philip Van Doren Stern was an American author, editor, and historian best known for writing the short story that inspired the classic film "It's a Wonderful Life."
  • E. Diana Trilling Schiffrin
    Diana Trilling Schiffrin was an American literary critic and editor known for her work in publishing and her involvement in mid-20th-century intellectual circles.
  • 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_69c0084788848190bcf71f6bc5d71597 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02b54c2848190bb85212689d0b511 completed March 22, 2026, 5:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c09844f0b881908d4165e550f75d47 completed March 23, 2026, 1:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0990bf38081908c09c5dfe660c35b completed March 23, 2026, 1:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c099bd26fc8190a58bf483a6d4cbca completed March 23, 2026, 1:39 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:52 p.m.