Triple

T18351519
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Richard Brautigan E439676 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Willard and His Bowling Trophies
Willard and His Bowling Trophies is a darkly comic, surreal novel by Richard Brautigan that intertwines the lives of a couple, a trio of vengeful brothers, and a mysterious papier-mâché bird amid a collection of stolen bowling trophies.
E1319694 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: Willard and His Bowling Trophies | Statement: [Richard Brautigan, notableWork, Willard and His Bowling Trophies]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willard and His Bowling Trophies
Context triple: [Richard Brautigan, notableWork, Willard and His Bowling Trophies]
  • A. The Bowler
    The Bowler is a quirky, superheroine crimefighter in the film "Mystery Men," known for wielding a bowling ball containing her father's skull as a weapon.
  • B. The Willie Way
    The Willie Way is a studio album by country music legend Willie Nelson released in the early 1970s, showcasing his distinctive songwriting and vocal style during his pre-outlaw Nashville period.
  • C. Winner and Waster
    Winner and Waster is a 14th-century Middle English alliterative poem that debates the merits of wealth and generosity within a vividly satirical narrative.
  • D. The Ball
    The Ball is the popular nickname for Reunion Tower, a distinctive geodesic observation tower and Dallas landmark known for its glowing spherical top.
  • E. The Ball
    "The Ball" is a short story by renowned Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, reflecting his characteristic blend of psychological insight and modernist narrative style.
  • 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: Willard and His Bowling Trophies
Triple: [Richard Brautigan, notableWork, Willard and His Bowling Trophies]
Generated description
Willard and His Bowling Trophies is a darkly comic, surreal novel by Richard Brautigan that intertwines the lives of a couple, a trio of vengeful brothers, and a mysterious papier-mâché bird amid a collection of stolen bowling trophies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willard and His Bowling Trophies
Target entity description: Willard and His Bowling Trophies is a darkly comic, surreal novel by Richard Brautigan that intertwines the lives of a couple, a trio of vengeful brothers, and a mysterious papier-mâché bird amid a collection of stolen bowling trophies.
  • A. The Bowler
    The Bowler is a quirky, superheroine crimefighter in the film "Mystery Men," known for wielding a bowling ball containing her father's skull as a weapon.
  • B. The Willie Way
    The Willie Way is a studio album by country music legend Willie Nelson released in the early 1970s, showcasing his distinctive songwriting and vocal style during his pre-outlaw Nashville period.
  • C. Winner and Waster
    Winner and Waster is a 14th-century Middle English alliterative poem that debates the merits of wealth and generosity within a vividly satirical narrative.
  • D. The Ball
    The Ball is the popular nickname for Reunion Tower, a distinctive geodesic observation tower and Dallas landmark known for its glowing spherical top.
  • E. The Ball
    "The Ball" is a short story by renowned Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, reflecting his characteristic blend of psychological insight and modernist narrative style.
  • 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_69d8b918221c8190a9f7b563d64ac677 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e514f83b648190b473cf611851c666 completed April 19, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03cc28b80c8190819b989478bb62bd completed May 13, 2026, 12:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03cd1858c481909f78fb1a4c27437c completed May 13, 2026, 1 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03ce9e3dd08190b912fe9e9f552053 completed May 13, 2026, 1:06 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:37 a.m.