Triple

T9607193
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ian Rankin E232000 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Dead Souls
Dead Souls is a crime novel by Scottish author Ian Rankin, featuring Inspector John Rebus as he investigates interconnected cases in Edinburgh.
E809961 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: Dead Souls | Statement: [Ian Rankin, notableWork, Dead Souls]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dead Souls
Context triple: [Ian Rankin, notableWork, Dead Souls]
  • A. Dead Souls
    Dead Souls is a satirical novel by Nikolai Gogol that critiques 19th-century Russian society through the misadventures of a scheming landowner who buys the rights to deceased serfs.
  • B. The Overcoat
    The Overcoat is a classic short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol that follows a poor government clerk whose life briefly changes after acquiring a new overcoat, often seen as a foundational work of Russian literary realism and social critique.
  • C. The Lower Depths
    The Lower Depths is a seminal 1902 play by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that portrays the harsh lives and moral struggles of impoverished lodgers in a flophouse.
  • D. A Hero of Our Time
    A Hero of Our Time is a 1840 psychological novel by Russian writer Mikhail Lermontov that portrays the complex, cynical antihero Pechorin and is considered a classic of Russian literature.
  • E. Oblomov
    Oblomov is a 1980 Soviet film adaptation of Ivan Goncharov’s classic novel, directed by Nikita Mikhalkov and known for its portrayal of a lethargic nobleman whose inertia symbolizes social and spiritual stagnation.
  • 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: Dead Souls
Triple: [Ian Rankin, notableWork, Dead Souls]
Generated description
Dead Souls is a crime novel by Scottish author Ian Rankin, featuring Inspector John Rebus as he investigates interconnected cases in Edinburgh.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dead Souls
Target entity description: Dead Souls is a crime novel by Scottish author Ian Rankin, featuring Inspector John Rebus as he investigates interconnected cases in Edinburgh.
  • A. Dead Souls
    Dead Souls is a satirical novel by Nikolai Gogol that critiques 19th-century Russian society through the misadventures of a scheming landowner who buys the rights to deceased serfs.
  • B. The Overcoat
    The Overcoat is a classic short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol that follows a poor government clerk whose life briefly changes after acquiring a new overcoat, often seen as a foundational work of Russian literary realism and social critique.
  • C. The Lower Depths
    The Lower Depths is a seminal 1902 play by Russian writer Maksim Gorky that portrays the harsh lives and moral struggles of impoverished lodgers in a flophouse.
  • D. A Hero of Our Time
    A Hero of Our Time is a 1840 psychological novel by Russian writer Mikhail Lermontov that portrays the complex, cynical antihero Pechorin and is considered a classic of Russian literature.
  • E. Oblomov
    Oblomov is a 1980 Soviet film adaptation of Ivan Goncharov’s classic novel, directed by Nikita Mikhalkov and known for its portrayal of a lethargic nobleman whose inertia symbolizes social and spiritual stagnation.
  • 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_69ca8485a90c819094fe40b42fde9d70 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9a62372881908bf21be91e7285fb completed April 1, 2026, 10:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d17942504481908e7147a0f56bdf96 completed April 4, 2026, 8:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d17a27596081909c6a2ec486480ce1 completed April 4, 2026, 8:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d17af1d1b48190b6f8350edfa4f5ef completed April 4, 2026, 8:56 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:08 p.m.