Triple

T6412212
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Banks E127732 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Russell Banks
Russell Banks was an acclaimed American novelist and short story writer known for his powerful explorations of working-class life, moral struggle, and the darker facets of the American experience.
E592086 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: Russell Banks | Statement: [Banks, hasNotableBearer, Russell Banks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Russell Banks
Context triple: [Banks, hasNotableBearer, Russell Banks]
  • A. Andre Dubus
    Andre Dubus was an American short story writer and essayist renowned for his psychologically rich, morally complex fiction often set in working-class New England.
  • B. Thomas Wolff
    Thomas Wolff was an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
  • 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. Tobias Wolff
    Tobias Wolff is an American author and memoirist renowned for his autobiographical works and short stories exploring memory, identity, and moral ambiguity.
  • E. Donna Tartt
    Donna Tartt is an American novelist best known for her intricately plotted, literary thrillers such as "The Secret History," "The Little Friend," and the Pulitzer Prize–winning "The Goldfinch."
  • 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: Russell Banks
Triple: [Banks, hasNotableBearer, Russell Banks]
Generated description
Russell Banks was an acclaimed American novelist and short story writer known for his powerful explorations of working-class life, moral struggle, and the darker facets of the American experience.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Russell Banks
Target entity description: Russell Banks was an acclaimed American novelist and short story writer known for his powerful explorations of working-class life, moral struggle, and the darker facets of the American experience.
  • A. Andre Dubus
    Andre Dubus was an American short story writer and essayist renowned for his psychologically rich, morally complex fiction often set in working-class New England.
  • B. Thomas Wolff
    Thomas Wolff was an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
  • 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. Tobias Wolff
    Tobias Wolff is an American author and memoirist renowned for his autobiographical works and short stories exploring memory, identity, and moral ambiguity.
  • E. Donna Tartt
    Donna Tartt is an American novelist best known for her intricately plotted, literary thrillers such as "The Secret History," "The Little Friend," and the Pulitzer Prize–winning "The Goldfinch."
  • 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_69c0083723d88190b1e37b19df162c08 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c068d228208190ba05eeb7707482fe completed March 22, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c640c48e688190981a19ce5eb2af44 completed March 27, 2026, 8:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6427c80c48190b87b9ecd1e10e78a completed March 27, 2026, 8:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c642da89a48190a2d6de237669ca8c completed March 27, 2026, 8:42 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:42 p.m.