Triple

T13254998
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cormac McCarthy E315633 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Cities of the Plain E309672 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Cities of the Plain | Statement: [Cormac McCarthy, notableWork, Cities of the Plain]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cities of the Plain
Context triple: [Cormac McCarthy, notableWork, Cities of the Plain]
  • A. Cities of the Plain chosen
    Cities of the Plain is a 1998 novel by Cormac McCarthy that concludes his Border Trilogy, following cowboys John Grady Cole and Billy Parham along the U.S.–Mexico border in a stark, tragic exploration of love, violence, and fate.
  • B. Riders of the Purple Sage
    Riders of the Purple Sage is a 1996 television Western film adaptation of Zane Grey’s classic novel, starring Amy Madigan and Ed Harris.
  • C. Star City of the Plains
    Star City of the Plains is a nickname commonly used to refer to the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, highlighting its regional prominence on the Great Plains.
  • D. Lords of the Plains
    Lords of the Plains is a renowned epithet for the Comanche, a Native American people historically famed for their exceptional horsemanship, warrior culture, and dominance across the Southern Plains.
  • E. Cimarron
    Cimarron is a 1931 American Western drama film, based on Edna Ferber’s novel, that won the Academy Award for Best Picture for its portrayal of Oklahoma’s land rush and frontier life.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69d806b1072881909e46bd212259c5f0 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d98f7517048190b4eac4e44e81ff66 completed April 11, 2026, 12:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f70a3d6b808190b4ae5225961de03f completed May 3, 2026, 8:41 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:24 p.m.