Triple
T640542
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Flannery O'Connor |
E16728
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasInfluenced |
P9
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Cormac McCarthy |
E62689
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Cormac McCarthy | Statement: [Flannery O'Connor, hasInfluenced, Cormac McCarthy]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cormac McCarthy Context triple: [Flannery O'Connor, hasInfluenced, Cormac McCarthy]
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A.
Cormac McCarthy
chosen
Cormac McCarthy was an American novelist renowned for his bleak, lyrical prose and violent, existential explorations of the American South and West in works such as "Blood Meridian" and "The Road."
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B.
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.
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C.
William Faulks
William Faulks is known as the son of British novelist Sebastian Faulks.
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D.
Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard was an American novelist and screenwriter renowned for his gritty crime fiction, sharp dialogue, and works such as "Rum Punch," "Get Shorty," and "Out of Sight."
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E.
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."
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a4936be1c88190af56540324b57da7 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a49f0189b08190a584b744f36fa761 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:18 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a58035296481908c177e782137b194 |
completed | March 2, 2026, 12:19 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.