Triple

T13273936
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Big Clock E316137 entity
Predicate authorOfSourceWork P2353 FINISHED
Object Kenneth Fearing
Kenneth Fearing was an American poet and novelist associated with leftist politics and hardboiled, noir-inflected fiction.
E1030225 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: Kenneth Fearing | Statement: [The Big Clock, authorOfSourceWork, Kenneth Fearing]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth Fearing
Context triple: [The Big Clock, authorOfSourceWork, Kenneth Fearing]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Irwin Shaw
    Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist best known for works such as "The Young Lions" and "Rich Man, Poor Man."
  • C. Elihu Doty
    Elihu Doty was a 19th-century American missionary and linguist known for his pioneering role in developing and promoting the Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization system for Southern Min (Hokkien) Chinese.
  • D. Reeves McCullers
    Reeves McCullers was the husband of American novelist Carson McCullers and a key figure in her tumultuous personal life.
  • E. Irving Morrow
    Irving Morrow was an American architect best known for designing the Art Deco elements and iconic International Orange color scheme of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
  • 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: Kenneth Fearing
Triple: [The Big Clock, authorOfSourceWork, Kenneth Fearing]
Generated description
Kenneth Fearing was an American poet and novelist associated with leftist politics and hardboiled, noir-inflected fiction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth Fearing
Target entity description: Kenneth Fearing was an American poet and novelist associated with leftist politics and hardboiled, noir-inflected fiction.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Irwin Shaw
    Irwin Shaw was an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist best known for works such as "The Young Lions" and "Rich Man, Poor Man."
  • C. Elihu Doty
    Elihu Doty was a 19th-century American missionary and linguist known for his pioneering role in developing and promoting the Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization system for Southern Min (Hokkien) Chinese.
  • D. Reeves McCullers
    Reeves McCullers was the husband of American novelist Carson McCullers and a key figure in her tumultuous personal life.
  • E. Irving Morrow
    Irving Morrow was an American architect best known for designing the Art Deco elements and iconic International Orange color scheme of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
  • 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_69d806b1d9ac8190852c5571d5bd5f0f completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9904193bc8190af4155750bcf32f6 completed April 11, 2026, 12:05 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f70a51d458819080b8c8f3a4df0f52 completed May 3, 2026, 8:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f70b117c588190bb81ff53664cac4a completed May 3, 2026, 8:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f70c04da34819091e01db25741674e completed May 3, 2026, 8:49 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:26 p.m.