Triple

T7940530
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Winston Groom E184376 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Better Times Than These
Better Times Than These is a Vietnam War novel by American author Winston Groom that explores the experiences and disillusionment of U.S. soldiers in combat.
E699406 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: Better Times Than These | Statement: [Winston Groom, notableWork, Better Times Than These]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Better Times Than These
Context triple: [Winston Groom, notableWork, Better Times Than These]
  • A. A Better Time
    A Better Time is a 2020 studio album by Nigerian Afrobeats artist Davido, featuring a blend of Afro-pop, dancehall, and international collaborations.
  • B. Times Like These
    "Times Like These" is a popular rock song by American band Foo Fighters, known for its anthemic chorus and themes of resilience and renewal.
  • C. Old Times
    Old Times is a 1971 play by Harold Pinter that explores memory, identity, and the ambiguity of past relationships through a tense three-character drama.
  • D. The Hard Years
    The Hard Years is the autobiography of British rock and roll singer and guitarist Joe Brown, recounting his early life and rise in the music industry.
  • E. In Our Time
    "In Our Time" is the English title of the 1965 Second Vatican Council declaration *Nostra Aetate*, which transformed the Catholic Church’s relations with non-Christian religions, especially Judaism.
  • 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: Better Times Than These
Triple: [Winston Groom, notableWork, Better Times Than These]
Generated description
Better Times Than These is a Vietnam War novel by American author Winston Groom that explores the experiences and disillusionment of U.S. soldiers in combat.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Better Times Than These
Target entity description: Better Times Than These is a Vietnam War novel by American author Winston Groom that explores the experiences and disillusionment of U.S. soldiers in combat.
  • A. A Better Time
    A Better Time is a 2020 studio album by Nigerian Afrobeats artist Davido, featuring a blend of Afro-pop, dancehall, and international collaborations.
  • B. Times Like These
    "Times Like These" is a popular rock song by American band Foo Fighters, known for its anthemic chorus and themes of resilience and renewal.
  • C. Old Times
    Old Times is a 1971 play by Harold Pinter that explores memory, identity, and the ambiguity of past relationships through a tense three-character drama.
  • D. The Hard Years
    The Hard Years is the autobiography of British rock and roll singer and guitarist Joe Brown, recounting his early life and rise in the music industry.
  • E. In Our Time
    In Our Time is a 1925 short story collection by Ernest Hemingway that helped establish his distinctive minimalist style and major themes of war, loss, and disillusionment.
  • 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_69ca8291c2008190b1b8832c87814bcf completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3b0ac8bc8190b4e4f79b15c316b3 completed March 31, 2026, 3:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb5c0e868481908748d340244ea8ea completed March 31, 2026, 5:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb7635a0e48190ae8c3f6993df3ad2 completed March 31, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cbb663d3a48190bc62f7a04bc6a1bb completed March 31, 2026, 11:56 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:08 p.m.