Triple

T18517287
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hugh MacLennan E452497 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Precipice
The Precipice is a mid-20th-century novel by Canadian author Hugh MacLennan that explores personal and cultural conflicts between Canada and the United States through an intense cross-border love story.
E1328901 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: The Precipice | Statement: [Hugh MacLennan, notableWork, The Precipice]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Precipice
Context triple: [Hugh MacLennan, notableWork, The Precipice]
  • A. The Precipice
    "The Precipice" is a track by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, featured on their 2008 album "The Hawk Is Howling."
  • B. The Ruins
    The Ruins is a famous early 20th-century Italianate mansion-turned-tourist attraction in Talisay, Negros Occidental, often called the "Taj Mahal of Negros" for its romantic history and preserved skeletal structure.
  • C. The Ruins
    The Ruins is a 2008 horror film, based on Scott Smith’s novel, about a group of tourists trapped at an isolated Mayan ruin menaced by a malevolent, sentient vine.
  • D. The Tower at the End of the World
    The Tower at the End of the World is a young adult fantasy novel by Brad Strickland, set in John Bellairs’ Lewis Barnavelt series and featuring a mysterious, otherworldly tower that threatens reality.
  • E. After the Fall
    After the Fall is a semi-autobiographical play by Arthur Miller that explores themes of guilt, memory, and personal responsibility, widely seen as reflecting his relationship with Marilyn Monroe and the era of McCarthyism.
  • 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: The Precipice
Triple: [Hugh MacLennan, notableWork, The Precipice]
Generated description
The Precipice is a mid-20th-century novel by Canadian author Hugh MacLennan that explores personal and cultural conflicts between Canada and the United States through an intense cross-border love story.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Precipice
Target entity description: The Precipice is a mid-20th-century novel by Canadian author Hugh MacLennan that explores personal and cultural conflicts between Canada and the United States through an intense cross-border love story.
  • A. The Precipice
    "The Precipice" is a track by Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, featured on their 2008 album "The Hawk Is Howling."
  • B. The Ruins
    The Ruins is a famous early 20th-century Italianate mansion-turned-tourist attraction in Talisay, Negros Occidental, often called the "Taj Mahal of Negros" for its romantic history and preserved skeletal structure.
  • C. The Ruins
    The Ruins is a 2008 horror film, based on Scott Smith’s novel, about a group of tourists trapped at an isolated Mayan ruin menaced by a malevolent, sentient vine.
  • D. The Tower at the End of the World
    The Tower at the End of the World is a young adult fantasy novel by Brad Strickland, set in John Bellairs’ Lewis Barnavelt series and featuring a mysterious, otherworldly tower that threatens reality.
  • E. After the Fall
    After the Fall is a semi-autobiographical play by Arthur Miller that explores themes of guilt, memory, and personal responsibility, widely seen as reflecting his relationship with Marilyn Monroe and the era of McCarthyism.
  • 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_69d8d386df84819092355ebb260d848e completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5338b2cd0819095db59f6bfc70814 completed April 19, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a04916c1cb88190889ad7d1c1dc4279 completed May 13, 2026, 2:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a04921b1a508190b8bb6d6c4597ab99 completed May 13, 2026, 3 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0492ba4ea08190b59510b221ad5d21 completed May 13, 2026, 3:03 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:36 a.m.