Triple

T9592315
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Farrar, Straus and Giroux E231448 entity
Predicate hasPublished P80 FINISHED
Object W. G. Sebald
W. G. Sebald was a German writer and academic renowned for his genre-blending, melancholic prose that intertwines history, memory, and photography, particularly in works like "Austerlitz" and "The Rings of Saturn."
E809493 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: W. G. Sebald | Statement: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hasPublished, W. G. Sebald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. G. Sebald
Context triple: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hasPublished, W. G. Sebald]
  • A. Sebald
    Sebald is the scientist who first formally described and named the bacterial genus Campylobacter.
  • B. Martin Walser
    Martin Walser was a prominent German novelist, playwright, and essayist known for his psychologically nuanced portrayals of postwar German society and his involvement in literary debates.
  • C. Uwe Johnson
    Uwe Johnson was a prominent 20th-century German writer and novelist associated with the Gruppe 47 literary movement, best known for his experimental narratives exploring life in divided Germany.
  • D. Harry Mulisch
    Harry Mulisch was a prominent Dutch novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the "Great Three" of postwar Dutch literature.
  • E. László Krasznahorkai
    László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist renowned for his dense, labyrinthine prose and apocalyptic, philosophical narratives, best known internationally for works like "Satantango" and "The Melancholy of Resistance."
  • 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: W. G. Sebald
Triple: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hasPublished, W. G. Sebald]
Generated description
W. G. Sebald was a German writer and academic renowned for his genre-blending, melancholic prose that intertwines history, memory, and photography, particularly in works like "Austerlitz" and "The Rings of Saturn."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. G. Sebald
Target entity description: W. G. Sebald was a German writer and academic renowned for his genre-blending, melancholic prose that intertwines history, memory, and photography, particularly in works like "Austerlitz" and "The Rings of Saturn."
  • A. Sebald
    Sebald is the scientist who first formally described and named the bacterial genus Campylobacter.
  • B. Martin Walser
    Martin Walser was a prominent German novelist, playwright, and essayist known for his psychologically nuanced portrayals of postwar German society and his involvement in literary debates.
  • C. Uwe Johnson
    Uwe Johnson was a prominent 20th-century German writer and novelist associated with the Gruppe 47 literary movement, best known for his experimental narratives exploring life in divided Germany.
  • D. Harry Mulisch
    Harry Mulisch was a prominent Dutch novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the "Great Three" of postwar Dutch literature.
  • E. László Krasznahorkai
    László Krasznahorkai is a Hungarian novelist renowned for his dense, labyrinthine prose and apocalyptic, philosophical narratives, best known internationally for works like "Satantango" and "The Melancholy of Resistance."
  • 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_69ca8482884481908eccdfdf64d6fbf7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9a11ec7081908dc580de2f369706 completed April 1, 2026, 10:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1618dfb688190bddd93c51bb6df41 completed April 4, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d165c365988190a751703b631a66be completed April 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d16698b4ec8190b3b8a2432e65d8e8 completed April 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:07 p.m.