Triple

T21800623
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kōbō Abe E538228 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Man Who Turned Into a Stick
The Man Who Turned Into a Stick is an absurdist one-act play by Japanese writer Kōbō Abe that explores themes of alienation and dehumanization through surreal, symbolic storytelling.
E1502030 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 Man Who Turned Into a Stick | Statement: [Kōbō Abe, notableWork, The Man Who Turned Into a Stick]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Man Who Turned Into a Stick
Context triple: [Kōbō Abe, notableWork, The Man Who Turned Into a Stick]
  • A. Life on a Stick
    Life on a Stick is an American television sitcom that aired on Fox in 2005, following a young man working at a mall corn dog stand while navigating quirky family and relationship dynamics.
  • B. The Stick
    The Stick is the longtime nickname of Candlestick Park, the former outdoor sports stadium in San Francisco that famously hosted the San Francisco Giants and 49ers.
  • C. The Stick
    The Stick is a notable work by Canadian sculptor George Stanley, best known for designing the iconic Canadian national flag.
  • D. The Stick
    The Stick is a South African horror film directed by Darrell Roodt that explores the psychological toll of apartheid-era military conflict.
  • E. The Man Who Could Not Shudder
    The Man Who Could Not Shudder is a classic locked-room mystery novel by John Dickson Carr featuring his detective Dr. Gideon Fell investigating seemingly supernatural events in a haunted house.
  • 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 Man Who Turned Into a Stick
Triple: [Kōbō Abe, notableWork, The Man Who Turned Into a Stick]
Generated description
The Man Who Turned Into a Stick is an absurdist one-act play by Japanese writer Kōbō Abe that explores themes of alienation and dehumanization through surreal, symbolic storytelling.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Man Who Turned Into a Stick
Target entity description: The Man Who Turned Into a Stick is an absurdist one-act play by Japanese writer Kōbō Abe that explores themes of alienation and dehumanization through surreal, symbolic storytelling.
  • A. Life on a Stick
    Life on a Stick is an American television sitcom that aired on Fox in 2005, following a young man working at a mall corn dog stand while navigating quirky family and relationship dynamics.
  • B. The Stick
    The Stick is the longtime nickname of Candlestick Park, the former outdoor sports stadium in San Francisco that famously hosted the San Francisco Giants and 49ers.
  • C. The Stick
    The Stick is a notable work by Canadian sculptor George Stanley, best known for designing the iconic Canadian national flag.
  • D. The Stick
    The Stick is a South African horror film directed by Darrell Roodt that explores the psychological toll of apartheid-era military conflict.
  • E. The Man Who Could Not Shudder
    The Man Who Could Not Shudder is a classic locked-room mystery novel by John Dickson Carr featuring his detective Dr. Gideon Fell investigating seemingly supernatural events in a haunted house.
  • 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_69e0c4733f4081909a86622e7e6d15d2 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f077fede848190b8fe07941d6573d9 completed April 28, 2026, 9:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a3e827ad88190869f3c4797c80891 completed May 17, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a3f4358d48190a88208a55d19a9ef completed May 17, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a404206e0819080c640619cd277ab completed May 17, 2026, 10:25 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:53 p.m.