Triple

T20861771
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Don McKay E513636 entity
Predicate hasWrittenWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Shell of the Tortoise
The Shell of the Tortoise is a collection of essays by Canadian poet Don McKay that explores nature, poetics, and the relationship between language and the wild.
E1454251 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 Shell of the Tortoise | Statement: [Don McKay, hasWrittenWork, The Shell of the Tortoise]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Shell of the Tortoise
Context triple: [Don McKay, hasWrittenWork, The Shell of the Tortoise]
  • A. The Voice of the Turtle
    The Voice of the Turtle is a surrealist literary work by American writer and artist Laurence Vail, reflecting his experimental, avant-garde style.
  • B. The Voice of the Turtle
    The Voice of the Turtle is a 1947 romantic comedy film, based on John Van Druten’s play, about a shy young actress who spends a weekend with a soldier on leave in New York City.
  • C. The Back of the Turtle
    The Back of the Turtle is a novel by Thomas King that explores environmental disaster, Indigenous identity, and corporate responsibility through a scientist’s return to his devastated home community.
  • D. In Search of the Turtle’s Navel
    In Search of the Turtle’s Navel is a 1976 instrumental acoustic guitar album by William Ackerman that helped define the early Windham Hill sound and the contemporary new-age genre.
  • E. The Tortoise
    "The Tortoise" is a poem, likely reflective or allegorical in nature, featured in the collection *The Burning Perch* by Irish poet Louis MacNeice.
  • 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 Shell of the Tortoise
Triple: [Don McKay, hasWrittenWork, The Shell of the Tortoise]
Generated description
The Shell of the Tortoise is a collection of essays by Canadian poet Don McKay that explores nature, poetics, and the relationship between language and the wild.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Shell of the Tortoise
Target entity description: The Shell of the Tortoise is a collection of essays by Canadian poet Don McKay that explores nature, poetics, and the relationship between language and the wild.
  • A. The Voice of the Turtle
    The Voice of the Turtle is a surrealist literary work by American writer and artist Laurence Vail, reflecting his experimental, avant-garde style.
  • B. The Voice of the Turtle
    The Voice of the Turtle is a 1947 romantic comedy film, based on John Van Druten’s play, about a shy young actress who spends a weekend with a soldier on leave in New York City.
  • C. The Back of the Turtle
    The Back of the Turtle is a novel by Thomas King that explores environmental disaster, Indigenous identity, and corporate responsibility through a scientist’s return to his devastated home community.
  • D. In Search of the Turtle’s Navel
    In Search of the Turtle’s Navel is a 1976 instrumental acoustic guitar album by William Ackerman that helped define the early Windham Hill sound and the contemporary new-age genre.
  • E. The Tortoise
    "The Tortoise" is a poem, likely reflective or allegorical in nature, featured in the collection *The Burning Perch* by Irish poet Louis MacNeice.
  • 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_69e0b4f5b01081909452f654d2fc3f50 completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c3ad3d1c8190be2fe35a85f2447c completed April 21, 2026, 12:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a090b0f5c088190a2db09ce9ecbfcc3 completed May 17, 2026, 12:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a090bc252dc8190a96a98b2160826b5 completed May 17, 2026, 12:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a090cc818b4819089ed588d3e460aa2 completed May 17, 2026, 12:33 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:44 p.m.