Triple

T11699482
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest E278082 entity
Predicate inspiredBy P9 FINISHED
Object opening line "It was a dark and stormy night"
The opening line "It was a dark and stormy night" is a famously overwrought sentence from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel *Paul Clifford*, often cited as an example of florid prose and widely parodied in popular culture.
E939736 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: opening line "It was a dark and stormy night" | Statement: [Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, inspiredBy, opening line "It was a dark and stormy night"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: opening line "It was a dark and stormy night"
Context triple: [Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, inspiredBy, opening line "It was a dark and stormy night"]
  • A. La primera noche
    La primera noche is a Mexican film best known for featuring acclaimed actress Ana Ofelia Murguía in a prominent role.
  • B. The Dark Room
    The Dark Room is a psychological horror video game known for its unsettling atmosphere, narrative-driven exploration, and themes of memory and trauma.
  • C. The Night Clerk
    The Night Clerk is a 2020 crime drama thriller film about a socially awkward hotel clerk who becomes entangled in a murder investigation after secretly recording guests.
  • D. The Tavern Scene
    The Tavern Scene is a genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Abraham Bloemaert depicting lively social life in a rustic inn.
  • E. Wait Until Dark
    Wait Until Dark is a 1967 suspense thriller film about a blind woman terrorized by criminals searching for hidden drugs in her apartment.
  • 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: opening line "It was a dark and stormy night"
Triple: [Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, inspiredBy, opening line "It was a dark and stormy night"]
Generated description
The opening line "It was a dark and stormy night" is a famously overwrought sentence from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel *Paul Clifford*, often cited as an example of florid prose and widely parodied in popular culture.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: opening line "It was a dark and stormy night"
Target entity description: The opening line "It was a dark and stormy night" is a famously overwrought sentence from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel *Paul Clifford*, often cited as an example of florid prose and widely parodied in popular culture.
  • A. La primera noche
    La primera noche is a Mexican film best known for featuring acclaimed actress Ana Ofelia Murguía in a prominent role.
  • B. The Dark Room
    The Dark Room is a psychological horror video game known for its unsettling atmosphere, narrative-driven exploration, and themes of memory and trauma.
  • C. The Night Clerk
    The Night Clerk is a 2020 crime drama thriller film about a socially awkward hotel clerk who becomes entangled in a murder investigation after secretly recording guests.
  • D. The Tavern Scene
    The Tavern Scene is a genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Abraham Bloemaert depicting lively social life in a rustic inn.
  • E. Wait Until Dark
    Wait Until Dark is a 1967 suspense thriller film about a blind woman terrorized by criminals searching for hidden drugs in her apartment.
  • 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_69d6aafe02d881909900d54ad7d4af84 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a47df68c81908a91919a69b4880d completed April 10, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ef147e2e10819085eaed83fd955b6b completed April 27, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ef3553a1748190b554463bcea8bd1d completed April 27, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ef51fe3824819099f440426d3e6888 completed April 27, 2026, 12:09 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:40 p.m.