Triple

T11465757
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tales of the City E271774 entity
Predicate literarySetting P19303 FINISHED
Object Barbary Lane boarding house
The Barbary Lane boarding house is a fictional, bohemian apartment complex in San Francisco that serves as the central communal setting for the characters in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series.
E927983 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: Barbary Lane boarding house | Statement: [Tales of the City, literarySetting, Barbary Lane boarding house]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barbary Lane boarding house
Context triple: [Tales of the City, literarySetting, Barbary Lane boarding house]
  • A. Hospitality House
    Hospitality House is the central guest services and check-in complex at Disney’s Old Key West Resort, featuring the main lobby, dining, and recreational amenities.
  • B. Gadsby’s Hotel
    Gadsby’s Hotel is a historic inn in Alexandria, Virginia, that served as a prominent social and political gathering place in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • C. Etta Place
    Etta Place was a mysterious American outlaw best known as the companion of the Sundance Kid and associate of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch at the turn of the 20th century.
  • D. The Nutt House
    The Nutt House is a 1992 American comedy film featuring Ann Magnuson in a prominent role.
  • E. Surratt Tavern
    Surratt Tavern is a historic 19th-century Maryland roadside inn best known for its association with Mary Surratt and the conspiracy surrounding President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
  • 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: Barbary Lane boarding house
Triple: [Tales of the City, literarySetting, Barbary Lane boarding house]
Generated description
The Barbary Lane boarding house is a fictional, bohemian apartment complex in San Francisco that serves as the central communal setting for the characters in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barbary Lane boarding house
Target entity description: The Barbary Lane boarding house is a fictional, bohemian apartment complex in San Francisco that serves as the central communal setting for the characters in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series.
  • A. Hospitality House
    Hospitality House is the central guest services and check-in complex at Disney’s Old Key West Resort, featuring the main lobby, dining, and recreational amenities.
  • B. Gadsby’s Hotel
    Gadsby’s Hotel is a historic inn in Alexandria, Virginia, that served as a prominent social and political gathering place in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • C. Etta Place
    Etta Place was a mysterious American outlaw best known as the companion of the Sundance Kid and associate of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch at the turn of the 20th century.
  • D. The Nutt House
    The Nutt House is a 1992 American comedy film featuring Ann Magnuson in a prominent role.
  • E. Surratt Tavern
    Surratt Tavern is a historic 19th-century Maryland roadside inn best known for its association with Mary Surratt and the conspiracy surrounding President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
  • 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_69d6aae0c8d881908a5a360c0be3242e completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d822f5eb988190b309b8e309f6d1a5 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e5e9377ff4819096971a77e0181eaf completed April 20, 2026, 8:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e5f1593c2c8190885f80ad5eeba3ec completed April 20, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e5f87bbd988190ac388a3c34b2e95a completed April 20, 2026, 9:57 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:35 p.m.