Triple

T9080996
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Malcolm Bradbury E217620 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Stepping Westward
Stepping Westward is a satirical campus novel by Malcolm Bradbury that follows a British writer’s comic culture clash at an American university in the 1960s.
E776376 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: Stepping Westward | Statement: [Malcolm Bradbury, notableWork, Stepping Westward]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stepping Westward
Context triple: [Malcolm Bradbury, notableWork, Stepping Westward]
  • A. Into the West
    Into the West is a 2005 American television miniseries that dramatizes the expansion of the American frontier and the clash of cultures between white settlers and Native American tribes.
  • B. Into the West
    "Into the West" is an Oscar-winning song from the film "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," known for its emotional farewell theme and performance by Annie Lennox.
  • C. Westering
    "Westering" is a poem by Irish poet Seamus Heaney that reflects on memory, place, and the pull of the western landscape.
  • D. Journey on the Plain
    Journey on the Plain is a short film by Hungarian director Béla Tarr that features long, meditative shots of the Great Hungarian Plain, emphasizing atmosphere and landscape over narrative.
  • E. Plea for the West
    Plea for the West is a 19th-century religious and social commentary in which Lyman Beecher warns against perceived moral and religious decline in the American West and advocates for Protestant influence in the region.
  • 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: Stepping Westward
Triple: [Malcolm Bradbury, notableWork, Stepping Westward]
Generated description
Stepping Westward is a satirical campus novel by Malcolm Bradbury that follows a British writer’s comic culture clash at an American university in the 1960s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stepping Westward
Target entity description: Stepping Westward is a satirical campus novel by Malcolm Bradbury that follows a British writer’s comic culture clash at an American university in the 1960s.
  • A. Into the West
    Into the West is a 2005 American television miniseries that dramatizes the expansion of the American frontier and the clash of cultures between white settlers and Native American tribes.
  • B. Into the West
    "Into the West" is an Oscar-winning song from the film "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," known for its emotional farewell theme and performance by Annie Lennox.
  • C. Westering
    "Westering" is a poem by Irish poet Seamus Heaney that reflects on memory, place, and the pull of the western landscape.
  • D. Journey on the Plain
    Journey on the Plain is a short film by Hungarian director Béla Tarr that features long, meditative shots of the Great Hungarian Plain, emphasizing atmosphere and landscape over narrative.
  • E. Plea for the West
    Plea for the West is a 19th-century religious and social commentary in which Lyman Beecher warns against perceived moral and religious decline in the American West and advocates for Protestant influence in the region.
  • 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_69ca83d7a0388190ba1af89ed7ba36f9 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc9607942c8190a21620892ce3cbe5 completed April 1, 2026, 3:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cffe28ae548190924cc7bbf453f3f3 completed April 3, 2026, 5:51 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d000d4a4548190939a9a9946be469b completed April 3, 2026, 6:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d001b245f08190a8e5c53c570b20a0 completed April 3, 2026, 6:06 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:13 p.m.