Triple
T8500978
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Tom Wolfe |
E201213
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. |
E101966
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. | Statement: [Tom Wolfe, fullName, Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. Context triple: [Tom Wolfe, fullName, Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.]
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A.
Thomas Wolfe
chosen
Thomas Wolfe was a major early 20th-century American novelist best known for his sprawling, autobiographical works such as "Look Homeward, Angel."
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B.
Samuel Faulkner
Samuel Faulkner is the commitment-phobic child psychologist protagonist of the romantic comedy film "Nine Months," whose life is upended when his girlfriend becomes pregnant.
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C.
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Walter Van Tilburg Clark was an American author best known for his classic Western novel "The Ox-Bow Incident," which explores themes of mob justice and moral responsibility.
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D.
Arthur Brian Deane Faulkner
Arthur Brian Deane Faulkner was a Northern Irish politician who served as the last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland before the government’s suspension in 1972.
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E.
Erskine Caldwell
Erskine Caldwell was an American author best known for his novels and short stories depicting poverty and social issues in the rural American South, including works like "Tobacco Road" and "God's Little Acre."
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca831fe47c8190b5c57b456d2aefa0 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cbe5996ce88190956cb3f8d9ad3daf |
completed | March 31, 2026, 3:17 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ce4e1da7388190855ccd2e4292fd26 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 11:08 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:14 p.m.