Triple

T18780861
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lois Duncan E459251 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object They Never Came Home
They Never Came Home is a suspenseful young adult mystery novel by Lois Duncan about two missing teenage boys and the dark secrets uncovered during the search for them.
E1343498 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: They Never Came Home | Statement: [Lois Duncan, notableWork, They Never Came Home]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: They Never Came Home
Context triple: [Lois Duncan, notableWork, They Never Came Home]
  • A. They Come to Us without a Word
    "They Come to Us without a Word" is a multimedia installation and performance work by artist Joan Jonas that layers video, sound, drawing, and live action to explore memory, landscape, and the fragility of the natural world.
  • B. Till the Boys Come Home
    "Till the Boys Come Home" is the original title of the popular British World War I song better known as "Keep the Home Fires Burning," which became an anthem of hope and perseverance on the home front.
  • C. Sometimes They Come Back
    Sometimes They Come Back is a horror short story by Stephen King about a man haunted by the murderous delinquents who killed his brother and mysteriously return from the dead.
  • D. The Last Letter Home
    The Last Letter Home is a historical novel by Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg that concludes his acclaimed Emigrant series, depicting the later lives and struggles of Swedish settlers in 19th-century America.
  • E. The Children Came Back
    The Children Came Back is a song by Australian hip hop artist Briggs that reimagines and pays tribute to Archie Roach’s classic “Took the Children Away,” celebrating the resilience and achievements of Indigenous Australians.
  • 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: They Never Came Home
Triple: [Lois Duncan, notableWork, They Never Came Home]
Generated description
They Never Came Home is a suspenseful young adult mystery novel by Lois Duncan about two missing teenage boys and the dark secrets uncovered during the search for them.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: They Never Came Home
Target entity description: They Never Came Home is a suspenseful young adult mystery novel by Lois Duncan about two missing teenage boys and the dark secrets uncovered during the search for them.
  • A. They Come to Us without a Word
    "They Come to Us without a Word" is a multimedia installation and performance work by artist Joan Jonas that layers video, sound, drawing, and live action to explore memory, landscape, and the fragility of the natural world.
  • B. Till the Boys Come Home
    "Till the Boys Come Home" is the original title of the popular British World War I song better known as "Keep the Home Fires Burning," which became an anthem of hope and perseverance on the home front.
  • C. Sometimes They Come Back
    Sometimes They Come Back is a horror short story by Stephen King about a man haunted by the murderous delinquents who killed his brother and mysteriously return from the dead.
  • D. The Last Letter Home
    The Last Letter Home is a historical novel by Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg that concludes his acclaimed Emigrant series, depicting the later lives and struggles of Swedish settlers in 19th-century America.
  • E. The Children Came Back
    The Children Came Back is a song by Australian hip hop artist Briggs that reimagines and pays tribute to Archie Roach’s classic “Took the Children Away,” celebrating the resilience and achievements of Indigenous Australians.
  • 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_69d8d396f54c8190ba49db31e8743842 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5933ee89481908b647802961e4519 completed April 20, 2026, 2:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0547172c4c81909fc7370aa124c2e1 completed May 14, 2026, 3:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a054a54df1c8190981387ca09193459 completed May 14, 2026, 4:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a054b1e79588190b5e50215cecb8029 completed May 14, 2026, 4:10 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:52 a.m.