Triple

T20663634
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lawrence Block E507824 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling is a comic mystery novel by Lawrence Block featuring bookish burglar and bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr as he becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
E1444499 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 Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling | Statement: [Lawrence Block, notableWork, The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
Context triple: [Lawrence Block, notableWork, The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling]
  • A. The Burglar
    The Burglar is a 1957 American film noir crime drama about a jewel thief whose carefully planned heist unravels amid betrayal and pursuit.
  • B. The Barracks Thief
    The Barracks Thief is a novella by American author Tobias Wolff that follows three paratrooper trainees during the Vietnam War era, exploring themes of fear, betrayal, and moral ambiguity.
  • C. The Pleasure of Being Robbed
    The Pleasure of Being Robbed is a 2008 low-budget American indie film, associated with the Safdie brothers, that follows a young woman's impulsive kleptomania across New York City.
  • D. The Thief and the Dogs
    The Thief and the Dogs is a 1961 existential and psychological novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that follows a recently released thief seeking revenge in post-revolutionary Cairo.
  • E. The Khaki Mafia
    The Khaki Mafia is a nonfiction book by Robin Moore that exposes corruption and misconduct within the U.S. military during the Vietnam War era.
  • 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 Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
Triple: [Lawrence Block, notableWork, The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling]
Generated description
The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling is a comic mystery novel by Lawrence Block featuring bookish burglar and bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr as he becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
Target entity description: The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling is a comic mystery novel by Lawrence Block featuring bookish burglar and bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr as he becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
  • A. The Burglar
    The Burglar is a 1957 American film noir crime drama about a jewel thief whose carefully planned heist unravels amid betrayal and pursuit.
  • B. The Barracks Thief
    The Barracks Thief is a novella by American author Tobias Wolff that follows three paratrooper trainees during the Vietnam War era, exploring themes of fear, betrayal, and moral ambiguity.
  • C. The Pleasure of Being Robbed
    The Pleasure of Being Robbed is a 2008 low-budget American indie film, associated with the Safdie brothers, that follows a young woman's impulsive kleptomania across New York City.
  • D. The Thief and the Dogs
    The Thief and the Dogs is a 1961 existential and psychological novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that follows a recently released thief seeking revenge in post-revolutionary Cairo.
  • E. The Khaki Mafia
    The Khaki Mafia is a nonfiction book by Robin Moore that exposes corruption and misconduct within the U.S. military during the Vietnam War era.
  • 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_69e0b4c059bc81908ea762cd73ea4424 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6b2f4872481908858eb88ce89dd47 completed April 20, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08cd5d0da481909eebd69b8b314503 completed May 16, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08d175206c8190b119bb1a2d06462f completed May 16, 2026, 8:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08d293523c8190aaa01c6c73c9afd5 completed May 16, 2026, 8:24 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:44 a.m.