Triple

T8135437
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Howard Fast E189957 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Crossing
The Crossing is a historical novel by Howard Fast that dramatizes George Washington’s daring 1776 crossing of the Delaware River during the American Revolutionary War.
E714206 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: The Crossing | Statement: [Howard Fast, notableWork, The Crossing]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Crossing
Context triple: [Howard Fast, notableWork, The Crossing]
  • A. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a 1994 novel by Cormac McCarthy, the second book in his Border Trilogy, following a young cowboy’s harrowing journeys between the United States and Mexico.
  • B. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring detective Harry Bosch teaming up with defense attorney Mickey Haller to investigate a complex murder case.
  • C. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a renowned video art installation by Bill Viola that explores themes of transformation and spirituality through slow-motion imagery of a figure engulfed alternately by fire and water.
  • D. Still Crossed
    "Still Crossed" is a song by the American metalcore band Zao from their influential 1995 album "The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation" (often associated with their early release era around "Born of You").
  • E. De Oversteek
    De Oversteek is a modern road bridge over the River Waal in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, commemorating a historic World War II river crossing.
  • 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: The Crossing
Triple: [Howard Fast, notableWork, The Crossing]
Generated description
The Crossing is a historical novel by Howard Fast that dramatizes George Washington’s daring 1776 crossing of the Delaware River during the American Revolutionary War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Crossing
Target entity description: The Crossing is a historical novel by Howard Fast that dramatizes George Washington’s daring 1776 crossing of the Delaware River during the American Revolutionary War.
  • A. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a 1994 novel by Cormac McCarthy, the second book in his Border Trilogy, following a young cowboy’s harrowing journeys between the United States and Mexico.
  • B. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring detective Harry Bosch teaming up with defense attorney Mickey Haller to investigate a complex murder case.
  • C. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a renowned video art installation by Bill Viola that explores themes of transformation and spirituality through slow-motion imagery of a figure engulfed alternately by fire and water.
  • D. Still Crossed
    "Still Crossed" is a song by the American metalcore band Zao from their influential 1995 album "The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation" (often associated with their early release era around "Born of You").
  • E. De Oversteek
    De Oversteek is a modern road bridge over the River Waal in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, commemorating a historic World War II river crossing.
  • 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_69ca82bcb4848190a9a9d036ad768642 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb43fff6e0819086c95b571272b50c completed March 31, 2026, 3:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc949065248190b67ba7aa2688903e completed April 1, 2026, 3:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc95c180188190a2d541e8ea9a4c57 completed April 1, 2026, 3:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc970cf55c8190abf432ac68d6bbc3 completed April 1, 2026, 3:54 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:35 p.m.