Triple

T13712081
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jocelyn Brando E328795 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Ugly American E652657 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: The Ugly American | Statement: [Jocelyn Brando, notableWork, The Ugly American]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Ugly American
Context triple: [Jocelyn Brando, notableWork, The Ugly American]
  • A. The Ugly American chosen
    The Ugly American is a 1958 political novel by William Lederer and Eugene Burdick, later adapted into a 1963 film, that critiques American diplomatic and military conduct in Southeast Asia during the Cold War.
  • B. An American in Washington
    "An American in Washington" is a book by Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and humorist Russell Baker, offering his characteristically witty observations on American politics and life in the nation’s capital.
  • C. The Quiet American
    The Quiet American is a 1955 political novel by Graham Greene that explores moral ambiguity, love, and early U.S. involvement in Vietnam through the intertwined lives of a British journalist and an idealistic American.
  • D. The Quiet American
    The Quiet American is a 2002 film adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel, set in 1950s Vietnam and exploring political intrigue, moral ambiguity, and the early stages of U.S. involvement in the region.
  • E. Ugly Americans
    Ugly Americans is a non-fiction book by Ben Mezrich that chronicles the high-risk, high-reward world of American traders operating in Asian financial markets in the 1990s.
  • 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_69d80770b9bc81909f70c8c317d53cff completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dd4395e8c0819098719c8cd344aa33 completed April 13, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f79d54a68081908df25edf6d5df362 completed May 3, 2026, 7:09 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:54 p.m.