Triple

T8351663
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bright Lights, Big City E196172 entity
Predicate authorOfSourceWork P2353 FINISHED
Object Jay McInerney
Jay McInerney is an American novelist and short story writer best known for his 1984 debut novel "Bright Lights, Big City," a defining work of literary minimalism and 1980s New York fiction.
E727478 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: Jay McInerney | Statement: [Bright Lights, Big City, authorOfSourceWork, Jay McInerney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jay McInerney
Context triple: [Bright Lights, Big City, authorOfSourceWork, Jay McInerney]
  • A. Rick Moody
    Rick Moody is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, psychologically rich explorations of contemporary suburban life, including the novel "The Ice Storm."
  • B. Nicholson Baker
    Nicholson Baker is an American novelist and essayist known for his meticulous attention to everyday detail, inventive prose style, and works such as "The Mezzanine" and "Vox."
  • C. Michael Cunningham
    Michael Cunningham is an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Hours," which reimagines Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs. Dalloway."
  • D. Stewart O'Nan
    Stewart O'Nan is an American novelist known for his quietly powerful, character-driven fiction that often explores the lives of ordinary people in contemporary America.
  • E. Tobias Wolff
    Tobias Wolff is an American author and memoirist renowned for his autobiographical works and short stories exploring memory, identity, and moral ambiguity.
  • 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: Jay McInerney
Triple: [Bright Lights, Big City, authorOfSourceWork, Jay McInerney]
Generated description
Jay McInerney is an American novelist and short story writer best known for his 1984 debut novel "Bright Lights, Big City," a defining work of literary minimalism and 1980s New York fiction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jay McInerney
Target entity description: Jay McInerney is an American novelist and short story writer best known for his 1984 debut novel "Bright Lights, Big City," a defining work of literary minimalism and 1980s New York fiction.
  • A. Rick Moody
    Rick Moody is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, psychologically rich explorations of contemporary suburban life, including the novel "The Ice Storm."
  • B. Nicholson Baker
    Nicholson Baker is an American novelist and essayist known for his meticulous attention to everyday detail, inventive prose style, and works such as "The Mezzanine" and "Vox."
  • C. Michael Cunningham
    Michael Cunningham is an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Hours," which reimagines Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs. Dalloway."
  • D. Stewart O'Nan
    Stewart O'Nan is an American novelist known for his quietly powerful, character-driven fiction that often explores the lives of ordinary people in contemporary America.
  • E. Tobias Wolff
    Tobias Wolff is an American author and memoirist renowned for his autobiographical works and short stories exploring memory, identity, and moral ambiguity.
  • 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_69ca82edd63c8190b876b8465464c5fa completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb8019fb308190a3edc744bd473a5b completed March 31, 2026, 8:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cdc75623488190be3303f5e75784e8 completed April 2, 2026, 1:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cdcc86626c8190a4206feedea24b41 completed April 2, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cdcde02e088190be8220f7d18d6700 completed April 2, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:59 p.m.