Triple

T10719806

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Sparta, Mississippi	`E252786`	entity
Predicate	settingFor	`P15599`	FINISHED
Object	In the Heat of the Night (TV series) In the Heat of the Night is an American television drama series, based on the 1967 film and novel of the same name, that follows a small-town police department confronting crime and racial tensions in the Deep South.	`E882064`	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: In the Heat of the Night (TV series) | Statement: [Sparta, Mississippi, settingFor, In the Heat of the Night (TV series)]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: In the Heat of the Night (TV series)
Context triple: [Sparta, Mississippi, settingFor, In the Heat of the Night (TV series)]

A. In the Heat of the Night (novel)
"In the Heat of the Night" is a 1965 crime novel by John Ball that introduces Black police detective Virgil Tibbs as he investigates a racially charged murder in a small Southern town.
B. In the Heat of the Night
In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American crime drama film starring Sidney Poitier as a Black detective investigating a murder in a racially tense Southern town, noted for its powerful exploration of racism and social justice.
C. In the Heat of the Night
"In the Heat of the Night" is the 1979 debut studio album by American rock singer Pat Benatar, featuring her breakthrough hit "Heartbreaker" and establishing her as a major figure in rock music.
D. That Evening Sun
"That Evening Sun" is a short story by William Faulkner, noted for its exploration of racial tensions and fear in the American South through the perspective of a child narrator.
E. Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues is an influential American police drama television series that aired in the 1980s, renowned for its ensemble cast, gritty realism, and innovative, serialized storytelling.
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: In the Heat of the Night (TV series)
Triple: [Sparta, Mississippi, settingFor, In the Heat of the Night (TV series)]

Generated description

In the Heat of the Night is an American television drama series, based on the 1967 film and novel of the same name, that follows a small-town police department confronting crime and racial tensions in the Deep South.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: In the Heat of the Night (TV series)
Target entity description: In the Heat of the Night is an American television drama series, based on the 1967 film and novel of the same name, that follows a small-town police department confronting crime and racial tensions in the Deep South.

A. In the Heat of the Night (novel)
"In the Heat of the Night" is a 1965 crime novel by John Ball that introduces Black police detective Virgil Tibbs as he investigates a racially charged murder in a small Southern town.
B. In the Heat of the Night
"In the Heat of the Night" is the 1979 debut studio album by American rock singer Pat Benatar, featuring her breakthrough hit "Heartbreaker" and establishing her as a major figure in rock music.
C. In the Heat of the Night
In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American crime drama film starring Sidney Poitier as a Black detective investigating a murder in a racially tense Southern town, noted for its powerful exploration of racism and social justice.
D. That Evening Sun
"That Evening Sun" is a short story by William Faulkner, noted for its exploration of racial tensions and fear in the American South through the perspective of a child narrator.
E. Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues is an influential American police drama television series that aired in the 1980s, renowned for its ensemble cast, gritty realism, and innovative, serialized storytelling.
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_69d6aa5d8be481909a43218b2bfdbe95`	completed	April 8, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69d6ff3722ec8190b2d78a5630bf6efc`	completed	April 9, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_69dbb72b9ce08190a9134f3365d3f8cb`	completed	April 12, 2026, 3:15 p.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_69dbbbe3d9dc819088f85d41ef66ab29`	completed	April 12, 2026, 3:36 p.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_69dbc58a5ef481908e67fff6686fb506`	completed	April 12, 2026, 4:17 p.m.

Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:13 p.m.