Triple

T9568078
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Virginian E230838 entity
Predicate authorOfSourceWork P2353 FINISHED
Object Owen Wister
Owen Wister was an American writer best known for pioneering the Western genre in literature, particularly through his influential novel "The Virginian."
E806788 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: Owen Wister | Statement: [The Virginian, authorOfSourceWork, Owen Wister]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Owen Wister
Context triple: [The Virginian, authorOfSourceWork, Owen Wister]
  • A. William W. Howells
    William W. Howells was a prominent American physical anthropologist known for his influential work on human evolution, cranial variation, and the biological diversity of human populations.
  • B. John Howells
    John Howells is a notable individual who shares the surname associated with the prominent Howells family name.
  • C. William Dean Howells
    William Dean Howells was a prominent 19th-century American realist author, critic, and editor often called the "Dean of American Letters."
  • D. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
    Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a 19th-century American poet, novelist, and editor best known for his semi-autobiographical novel "The Story of a Bad Boy" and his influential role as editor of The Atlantic Monthly.
  • E. Conrad Richter
    Conrad Richter was an American novelist best known for his historical fiction depicting early American frontier life, including works such as "The Trees," "The Fields," and the Pulitzer Prize–winning "The Town."
  • 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: Owen Wister
Triple: [The Virginian, authorOfSourceWork, Owen Wister]
Generated description
Owen Wister was an American writer best known for pioneering the Western genre in literature, particularly through his influential novel "The Virginian."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Owen Wister
Target entity description: Owen Wister was an American writer best known for pioneering the Western genre in literature, particularly through his influential novel "The Virginian."
  • A. William W. Howells
    William W. Howells was a prominent American physical anthropologist known for his influential work on human evolution, cranial variation, and the biological diversity of human populations.
  • B. John Howells
    John Howells is a notable individual who shares the surname associated with the prominent Howells family name.
  • C. William Dean Howells
    William Dean Howells was a prominent 19th-century American realist author, critic, and editor often called the "Dean of American Letters."
  • D. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
    Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a 19th-century American poet, novelist, and editor best known for his semi-autobiographical novel "The Story of a Bad Boy" and his influential role as editor of The Atlantic Monthly.
  • E. Conrad Richter
    Conrad Richter was an American novelist best known for his historical fiction depicting early American frontier life, including works such as "The Trees," "The Fields," and the Pulitzer Prize–winning "The Town."
  • 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_69ca847f22188190a56e4a97625bef22 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9987cb0c8190af32a1193de54890 completed April 1, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d152b5b40c81909a84e34a944abfd0 completed April 4, 2026, 6:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d153c26b8481908298b32918666562 completed April 4, 2026, 6:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d15445e7a88190accd19c53a6170bb completed April 4, 2026, 6:11 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:04 p.m.