Triple

T726550
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Emily Dickinson E14737 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object I heard a Fly buzz—when I died
"I heard a Fly buzz—when I died" is a renowned lyric poem by Emily Dickinson that meditates on the moment of death through the startlingly mundane image of a fly interrupting the speaker’s final passage.
E88120 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: I heard a Fly buzz—when I died | Statement: [Emily Dickinson, notableWork, I heard a Fly buzz—when I died]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: I heard a Fly buzz—when I died
Context triple: [Emily Dickinson, notableWork, I heard a Fly buzz—when I died]
  • A. Because I could not stop for Death
    "Because I could not stop for Death" is a renowned lyric poem by Emily Dickinson that personifies Death as a courteous suitor escorting the speaker on a reflective journey toward eternity.
  • B. I died for Beauty—but was scarce
    "I died for Beauty—but was scarce" is a short, enigmatic lyric poem by Emily Dickinson that explores the kinship between beauty and truth through a posthumous dialogue between two dead speakers.
  • C. The Hollow Men
    The Hollow Men is a 1925 modernist poem by T. S. Eliot that explores themes of spiritual desolation, paralysis, and the fragmentation of modern life.
  • D. There’s a certain Slant of light
    "There’s a certain Slant of light" is a lyric poem by Emily Dickinson that meditates on the oppressive, spiritual weight of winter light and its connection to inner despair and mortality.
  • E. O Captain! My Captain!
    "O Captain! My Captain!" is a famous elegiac poem by Walt Whitman mourning the death of Abraham Lincoln through an extended ship-and-captain metaphor.
  • 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: I heard a Fly buzz—when I died
Triple: [Emily Dickinson, notableWork, I heard a Fly buzz—when I died]
Generated description
"I heard a Fly buzz—when I died" is a renowned lyric poem by Emily Dickinson that meditates on the moment of death through the startlingly mundane image of a fly interrupting the speaker’s final passage.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: I heard a Fly buzz—when I died
Target entity description: "I heard a Fly buzz—when I died" is a renowned lyric poem by Emily Dickinson that meditates on the moment of death through the startlingly mundane image of a fly interrupting the speaker’s final passage.
  • A. Because I could not stop for Death
    "Because I could not stop for Death" is a renowned lyric poem by Emily Dickinson that personifies Death as a courteous suitor escorting the speaker on a reflective journey toward eternity.
  • B. I died for Beauty—but was scarce
    "I died for Beauty—but was scarce" is a short, enigmatic lyric poem by Emily Dickinson that explores the kinship between beauty and truth through a posthumous dialogue between two dead speakers.
  • C. The Hollow Men
    The Hollow Men is a 1925 modernist poem by T. S. Eliot that explores themes of spiritual desolation, paralysis, and the fragmentation of modern life.
  • D. There’s a certain Slant of light
    "There’s a certain Slant of light" is a lyric poem by Emily Dickinson that meditates on the oppressive, spiritual weight of winter light and its connection to inner despair and mortality.
  • E. O Captain! My Captain!
    "O Captain! My Captain!" is a famous elegiac poem by Walt Whitman mourning the death of Abraham Lincoln through an extended ship-and-captain metaphor.
  • 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_69a4934c753c81909b309027e48b9b3a completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a5a9adf08190bf2baade7e2e1c1c completed March 1, 2026, 8:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a64a5c9d248190b0bebfd0e999643a completed March 3, 2026, 2:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a64e4ae3b4819099da917053197627 completed March 3, 2026, 2:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a64eb30e80819096ac54a526eea79d completed March 3, 2026, 3 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.