Triple

T12942646
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cities of the Plain E309672 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Billy Parham
Billy Parham is a young cowboy and drifter in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, whose life is marked by loss, violence, and the fading world of the American Southwest.
E1011905 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: Billy Parham | Statement: [Cities of the Plain, mainCharacter, Billy Parham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billy Parham
Context triple: [Cities of the Plain, mainCharacter, Billy Parham]
  • A. Billy Parham
    Billy Parham is the teenage cowboy protagonist of Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy novel "The Crossing," known for his tragic, mythic journeys across the U.S.–Mexico border.
  • B. George Pentecost
    George Pentecost is an actor best known for his role in the 1970s American sitcom "Blansky's Beauties."
  • C. George Gaynes
    George Gaynes was a Finnish-American actor best known for his comedic role as Commandant Eric Lassard in the "Police Academy" film series and as the adoptive father in the movie and TV series "Punky Brewster."
  • D. Guy Wilkerson
    Guy Wilkerson was an American character actor best known for his roles in Westerns and B-movies during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Joe Hagin
    Joe Hagin is an American political operative and government official who has served in senior White House roles under multiple Republican presidents, including as a key manager of presidential operations and logistics.
  • 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: Billy Parham
Triple: [Cities of the Plain, mainCharacter, Billy Parham]
Generated description
Billy Parham is a young cowboy and drifter in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, whose life is marked by loss, violence, and the fading world of the American Southwest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Billy Parham
Target entity description: Billy Parham is a young cowboy and drifter in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, whose life is marked by loss, violence, and the fading world of the American Southwest.
  • A. Billy Parham chosen
    Billy Parham is the teenage cowboy protagonist of Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy novel "The Crossing," known for his tragic, mythic journeys across the U.S.–Mexico border.
  • B. George Pentecost
    George Pentecost is an actor best known for his role in the 1970s American sitcom "Blansky's Beauties."
  • C. George Gaynes
    George Gaynes was a Finnish-American actor best known for his comedic role as Commandant Eric Lassard in the "Police Academy" film series and as the adoptive father in the movie and TV series "Punky Brewster."
  • D. Guy Wilkerson
    Guy Wilkerson was an American character actor best known for his roles in Westerns and B-movies during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Joe Hagin
    Joe Hagin is an American political operative and government official who has served in senior White House roles under multiple Republican presidents, including as a key manager of presidential operations and logistics.
  • F. None of above.

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_69d7bdfb57a88190836b743e2825feca completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d97e1a28688190ab9fd1307bc76b4a completed April 10, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6b8d9669c819090471eb7e035d83d completed May 3, 2026, 2:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6b9a1ca54819085da2ca592bf5219 completed May 3, 2026, 2:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6bb03d8d88190930edd0f49fec8aa completed May 3, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:43 p.m.