Triple

T10091731
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject T.C. Boyle E215358 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Drop City
Drop City is a novel by T.C. Boyle that follows a 1970s California hippie commune whose idealistic experiment in free living unravels when they relocate to the harsh wilderness of Alaska.
E839794 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: Drop City | Statement: [T.C. Boyle, notableWork, Drop City]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Drop City
Context triple: [T.C. Boyle, notableWork, Drop City]
  • A. Free City
    "Free City" is the 2000 debut studio album by St. Lunatics, a hip hop group from St. Louis that includes rapper Nelly.
  • B. Sand City
    Sand City is a small coastal city in Monterey County, California, known for its beaches, sand dunes, and outlet shopping.
  • C. Outer City
    The Outer City was the extensive outer urban area surrounding the central core of Dadu, the Yuan dynasty capital later known as Beijing.
  • D. South Town
    South Town is a fictional, crime-ridden American metropolis that serves as the primary backdrop for SNK’s Fatal Fury and related fighting game series.
  • E. Edge City
    Edge City is a fictional, crime-ridden American metropolis known as the primary setting of the comic book and film franchise "The Mask."
  • 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: Drop City
Triple: [T.C. Boyle, notableWork, Drop City]
Generated description
Drop City is a novel by T.C. Boyle that follows a 1970s California hippie commune whose idealistic experiment in free living unravels when they relocate to the harsh wilderness of Alaska.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Drop City
Target entity description: Drop City is a novel by T.C. Boyle that follows a 1970s California hippie commune whose idealistic experiment in free living unravels when they relocate to the harsh wilderness of Alaska.
  • A. Free City
    "Free City" is the 2000 debut studio album by St. Lunatics, a hip hop group from St. Louis that includes rapper Nelly.
  • B. Sand City
    Sand City is a small coastal city in Monterey County, California, known for its beaches, sand dunes, and outlet shopping.
  • C. Outer City
    The Outer City was the extensive outer urban area surrounding the central core of Dadu, the Yuan dynasty capital later known as Beijing.
  • D. South Town
    South Town is a fictional, crime-ridden American metropolis that serves as the primary backdrop for SNK’s Fatal Fury and related fighting game series.
  • E. Edge City
    Edge City is a fictional, crime-ridden American metropolis known as the primary setting of the comic book and film franchise "The Mask."
  • 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_69ca83a1eed081908b2e9580f2ebeea7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdd05aa02081908fba02e7085c6d7c completed April 2, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2b6a587e0819093f38d5e69db43ec completed April 5, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2b790cc188190b5c16c89beaa8aca completed April 5, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2b81e7b948190baa417186aac284b completed April 5, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:01 p.m.