Triple

T20383895
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Babbitt E497909 entity
Predicate adaptationOf P1926 FINISHED
Object Babbitt (novel) by Sinclair Lewis
"Babbitt" is a 1922 satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis that critiques middle-class American conformity and materialism through the life of real estate salesman George F. Babbitt.
E1428021 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: Babbitt (novel) by Sinclair Lewis | Statement: [Babbitt, adaptationOf, Babbitt (novel) by Sinclair Lewis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Babbitt (novel) by Sinclair Lewis
Context triple: [Babbitt, adaptationOf, Babbitt (novel) by Sinclair Lewis]
  • A. Bongo, the Bear by Sinclair Lewis
    "Bongo, the Bear by Sinclair Lewis" is a short story by the American novelist Sinclair Lewis about a circus bear who dreams of a freer, more meaningful life beyond performing tricks.
  • B. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
    *The Jungle* by Upton Sinclair is a 1906 muckraking novel that exposes the brutal exploitation of immigrant workers and unsanitary conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking industry, helping spur major reforms in U.S. food safety laws.
  • C. novel "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today"
    "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" is an 1873 satirical novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that critiques post–Civil War American greed, political corruption, and speculative capitalism.
  • D. The Story of the Gadsbys
    The Story of the Gadsbys is a collection of interconnected short stories by Rudyard Kipling that portrays the social life and relationships of British colonial officers and their families in India.
  • E. The Gnome-Mobile by Upton Sinclair
    "The Gnome-Mobile" by Upton Sinclair is a whimsical children's novel about two children who befriend a family of gnomes and embark on a fantastical adventure to save them from extinction.
  • 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: Babbitt (novel) by Sinclair Lewis
Triple: [Babbitt, adaptationOf, Babbitt (novel) by Sinclair Lewis]
Generated description
"Babbitt" is a 1922 satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis that critiques middle-class American conformity and materialism through the life of real estate salesman George F. Babbitt.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Babbitt (novel) by Sinclair Lewis
Target entity description: "Babbitt" is a 1922 satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis that critiques middle-class American conformity and materialism through the life of real estate salesman George F. Babbitt.
  • A. Bongo, the Bear by Sinclair Lewis
    "Bongo, the Bear by Sinclair Lewis" is a short story by the American novelist Sinclair Lewis about a circus bear who dreams of a freer, more meaningful life beyond performing tricks.
  • B. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
    *The Jungle* by Upton Sinclair is a 1906 muckraking novel that exposes the brutal exploitation of immigrant workers and unsanitary conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking industry, helping spur major reforms in U.S. food safety laws.
  • C. novel "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today"
    "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" is an 1873 satirical novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that critiques post–Civil War American greed, political corruption, and speculative capitalism.
  • D. The Story of the Gadsbys
    The Story of the Gadsbys is a collection of interconnected short stories by Rudyard Kipling that portrays the social life and relationships of British colonial officers and their families in India.
  • E. The Gnome-Mobile by Upton Sinclair
    "The Gnome-Mobile" by Upton Sinclair is a whimsical children's novel about two children who befriend a family of gnomes and embark on a fantastical adventure to save them from extinction.
  • 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_69e0b4a5b7908190a972e4e7e698ae94 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e678b2ceec819091ad5205ee9b2174 completed April 20, 2026, 7:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08761704488190a4b832977d824839 completed May 16, 2026, 1:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08771f7edc8190b0c1dce8f5f6e145 completed May 16, 2026, 1:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0877ac99408190a31ee21894770334 completed May 16, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:27 a.m.