Triple

T13128270
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Paul Blackburn E311899 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Cities
The Cities is a poetry collection by American poet Paul Blackburn that reflects his innovative, urban-centered verse and engagement with modernist and Black Mountain influences.
E1023230 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: The Cities | Statement: [Paul Blackburn, notableWork, The Cities]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Cities
Context triple: [Paul Blackburn, notableWork, The Cities]
  • A. This City
    "This City" is a song by English singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf, released as one of the tracks on his debut album "Lycanthropy."
  • B. Cities on a Hill
    Cities on a Hill is a nonfiction book by Frances FitzGerald that examines several American utopian and experimental communities to explore the ideals and contradictions of U.S. culture.
  • 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. The Meaning of the City
    The Meaning of the City is a theological and sociological study by Jacques Ellul that explores the city as a symbol of human rebellion against God and a central locus of modern alienation and idolatry.
  • E. The City
    The City is an American daytime soap opera that aired on ABC in the mid-1990s as a spin-off of Loving, focusing on the lives and dramas of residents in a New York City apartment building.
  • 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: The Cities
Triple: [Paul Blackburn, notableWork, The Cities]
Generated description
The Cities is a poetry collection by American poet Paul Blackburn that reflects his innovative, urban-centered verse and engagement with modernist and Black Mountain influences.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Cities
Target entity description: The Cities is a poetry collection by American poet Paul Blackburn that reflects his innovative, urban-centered verse and engagement with modernist and Black Mountain influences.
  • A. This City
    "This City" is a song by English singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf, released as one of the tracks on his debut album "Lycanthropy."
  • B. Cities on a Hill
    Cities on a Hill is a nonfiction book by Frances FitzGerald that examines several American utopian and experimental communities to explore the ideals and contradictions of U.S. culture.
  • 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. The Meaning of the City
    The Meaning of the City is a theological and sociological study by Jacques Ellul that explores the city as a symbol of human rebellion against God and a central locus of modern alienation and idolatry.
  • E. The City
    The City is an American daytime soap opera that aired on ABC in the mid-1990s as a spin-off of Loving, focusing on the lives and dramas of residents in a New York City apartment building.
  • 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_69d806a9fe888190b081e2d9ea665d6c completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9819aac388190b59bf43cc6a49d0c completed April 10, 2026, 11:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6e28e922881909584296adc95d9b4 completed May 3, 2026, 5:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6e6d4aedc819090e6433600db4b31 completed May 3, 2026, 6:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6e79e40bc8190bcf72d719d4e88dd completed May 3, 2026, 6:13 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:07 p.m.