Triple

T7257187
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George Englund E157749 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object novel "The Ugly American" by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer (for his film adaptation)
The novel "The Ugly American" by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer is a Cold War–era political satire that critiques American diplomatic arrogance and cultural insensitivity in Southeast Asia.
E652660 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: novel "The Ugly American" by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer (for his film adaptation) | Statement: [George Englund, basedOn, novel "The Ugly American" by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer (for his film adaptation)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: novel "The Ugly American" by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer (for his film adaptation)
Context triple: [George Englund, basedOn, novel "The Ugly American" by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer (for his film adaptation)]
  • A. The Quiet American
    The Quiet American is a 1955 political novel by Graham Greene that explores moral ambiguity, love, and early U.S. involvement in Vietnam through the intertwined lives of a British journalist and an idealistic American.
  • B. The Quiet American
    The Quiet American is a 2002 film adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel, set in 1950s Vietnam and exploring political intrigue, moral ambiguity, and the early stages of U.S. involvement in the region.
  • C. novel "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
    "The Bridge on the River Kwai" is a 1952 war novel by Pierre Boulle that dramatizes the construction of a Japanese POW railway bridge in World War II, exploring themes of honor, duty, and the absurdity of war.
  • D. An American in Washington
    "An American in Washington" is a book by Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and humorist Russell Baker, offering his characteristically witty observations on American politics and life in the nation’s capital.
  • E. book "Bitter Fruit"
    "Bitter Fruit" is a nonfiction book that examines the 1954 CIA-backed coup in Guatemala and the role of the United Fruit Company in shaping U.S. foreign policy and Latin American politics.
  • 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: novel "The Ugly American" by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer (for his film adaptation)
Triple: [George Englund, basedOn, novel "The Ugly American" by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer (for his film adaptation)]
Generated description
The novel "The Ugly American" by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer is a Cold War–era political satire that critiques American diplomatic arrogance and cultural insensitivity in Southeast Asia.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: novel "The Ugly American" by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer (for his film adaptation)
Target entity description: The novel "The Ugly American" by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer is a Cold War–era political satire that critiques American diplomatic arrogance and cultural insensitivity in Southeast Asia.
  • A. The Quiet American
    The Quiet American is a 1955 political novel by Graham Greene that explores moral ambiguity, love, and early U.S. involvement in Vietnam through the intertwined lives of a British journalist and an idealistic American.
  • B. The Quiet American
    The Quiet American is a 2002 film adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel, set in 1950s Vietnam and exploring political intrigue, moral ambiguity, and the early stages of U.S. involvement in the region.
  • C. novel "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
    "The Bridge on the River Kwai" is a 1952 war novel by Pierre Boulle that dramatizes the construction of a Japanese POW railway bridge in World War II, exploring themes of honor, duty, and the absurdity of war.
  • D. An American in Washington
    "An American in Washington" is a book by Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and humorist Russell Baker, offering his characteristically witty observations on American politics and life in the nation’s capital.
  • E. book "Bitter Fruit"
    "Bitter Fruit" is a nonfiction book that examines the 1954 CIA-backed coup in Guatemala and the role of the United Fruit Company in shaping U.S. foreign policy and Latin American politics.
  • 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_69c6882d81d4819085f7ff862951ee4f completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6eaa3d88081908f59ca5a85790290 completed March 27, 2026, 8:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7d3b541708190b66233813b167453 completed March 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7d44f36e881909d107cc625ebcfca completed March 28, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7d4cc3e78819098eb8ccfe7c42cc5 completed March 28, 2026, 1:17 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:57 p.m.