Triple

T20693751
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Empty Words E508613 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object Thoreau’s journals
Thoreau’s journals are the extensive personal notebooks of Henry David Thoreau, recording his daily observations, philosophical reflections, and natural history studies that deeply influenced American literature and environmental thought.
E1445036 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: Thoreau’s journals | Statement: [Empty Words, basedOn, Thoreau’s journals]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thoreau’s journals
Context triple: [Empty Words, basedOn, Thoreau’s journals]
  • A. The Personality of Thoreau
    The Personality of Thoreau is a biographical and critical study that portrays the character, life, and philosophical outlook of American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
  • B. Walden (Diaries, Notes and Sketches)
    Walden (Diaries, Notes and Sketches) is an influential 1969 avant-garde diary film by Jonas Mekas that weaves together personal footage, reflections, and everyday moments into a lyrical meditation on life and memory.
  • C. Walden; or, Life in the Woods
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods is Henry David Thoreau’s seminal 1854 work of philosophical memoir and nature writing, reflecting on simple living, self-reliance, and spiritual contemplation during his experiment in solitude at Walden Pond.
  • D. Walden
    Walden is an unincorporated community located in Bibb County, Georgia, United States.
  • E. Concord in the Days of Emerson and Thoreau
    "Concord in the Days of Emerson and Thoreau" is a historical and biographical work that vividly portrays the intellectual, literary, and social life of 19th-century Concord, Massachusetts, centered around figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
  • 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: Thoreau’s journals
Triple: [Empty Words, basedOn, Thoreau’s journals]
Generated description
Thoreau’s journals are the extensive personal notebooks of Henry David Thoreau, recording his daily observations, philosophical reflections, and natural history studies that deeply influenced American literature and environmental thought.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thoreau’s journals
Target entity description: Thoreau’s journals are the extensive personal notebooks of Henry David Thoreau, recording his daily observations, philosophical reflections, and natural history studies that deeply influenced American literature and environmental thought.
  • A. The Personality of Thoreau
    The Personality of Thoreau is a biographical and critical study that portrays the character, life, and philosophical outlook of American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
  • B. Walden (Diaries, Notes and Sketches)
    Walden (Diaries, Notes and Sketches) is an influential 1969 avant-garde diary film by Jonas Mekas that weaves together personal footage, reflections, and everyday moments into a lyrical meditation on life and memory.
  • C. Walden; or, Life in the Woods
    Walden; or, Life in the Woods is Henry David Thoreau’s seminal 1854 work of philosophical memoir and nature writing, reflecting on simple living, self-reliance, and spiritual contemplation during his experiment in solitude at Walden Pond.
  • D. Walden
    Walden is an unincorporated community located in Bibb County, Georgia, United States.
  • E. Concord in the Days of Emerson and Thoreau
    "Concord in the Days of Emerson and Thoreau" is a historical and biographical work that vividly portrays the intellectual, literary, and social life of 19th-century Concord, Massachusetts, centered around figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
  • 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_69e0b4c1ed408190b72dd26b1e33f8a1 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c10fc4088190ab71ef078600954b completed April 21, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08d7e6a5788190895d7becc9f8136b completed May 16, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08d8e3b1d4819088fb2c3e54b7934e completed May 16, 2026, 8:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08d940f0e88190be17ae56546996af completed May 16, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:09 p.m.