Triple

T13619069
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Ice-Shirt E325399 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object North American historical cycle by William T. Vollmann
The North American historical cycle by William T. Vollmann is a multi-volume series of experimental historical novels that reimagine the colonization and cultural conflicts of North America across different eras.
E1051785 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: North American historical cycle by William T. Vollmann | Statement: [The Ice-Shirt, partOf, North American historical cycle by William T. Vollmann]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North American historical cycle by William T. Vollmann
Context triple: [The Ice-Shirt, partOf, North American historical cycle by William T. Vollmann]
  • A. An American Trilogy
    "An American Trilogy" is a medley popularized by Elvis Presley that combines the songs "Dixie," "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," and "All My Trials" into a dramatic patriotic performance.
  • B. The Epic of America
    The Epic of America is a 1931 historical and cultural study by James Truslow Adams that famously popularized and defined the concept of the “American Dream.”
  • C. Chroniques de l'Amérique
    Chroniques de l'Amérique is a non-fiction book by French journalist Anne Sinclair that offers her analysis and reflections on the politics, society, and culture of the United States.
  • D. The Epic of American Civilization
    The Epic of American Civilization is a monumental mural cycle by Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco that critically portrays the history and cultural struggles of the Americas, located at Dartmouth College.
  • E. Blood Meridian
    Blood Meridian is a brutal and philosophically dense Western novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a teenage drifter known as "the Kid" amid a scalp-hunting gang in the mid-19th-century U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
  • 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: North American historical cycle by William T. Vollmann
Triple: [The Ice-Shirt, partOf, North American historical cycle by William T. Vollmann]
Generated description
The North American historical cycle by William T. Vollmann is a multi-volume series of experimental historical novels that reimagine the colonization and cultural conflicts of North America across different eras.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: North American historical cycle by William T. Vollmann
Target entity description: The North American historical cycle by William T. Vollmann is a multi-volume series of experimental historical novels that reimagine the colonization and cultural conflicts of North America across different eras.
  • A. An American Trilogy
    "An American Trilogy" is a medley popularized by Elvis Presley that combines the songs "Dixie," "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," and "All My Trials" into a dramatic patriotic performance.
  • B. The Epic of America
    The Epic of America is a 1931 historical and cultural study by James Truslow Adams that famously popularized and defined the concept of the “American Dream.”
  • C. Chroniques de l'Amérique
    Chroniques de l'Amérique is a non-fiction book by French journalist Anne Sinclair that offers her analysis and reflections on the politics, society, and culture of the United States.
  • D. The Epic of American Civilization
    The Epic of American Civilization is a monumental mural cycle by Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco that critically portrays the history and cultural struggles of the Americas, located at Dartmouth College.
  • E. Blood Meridian
    Blood Meridian is a brutal and philosophically dense Western novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a teenage drifter known as "the Kid" amid a scalp-hunting gang in the mid-19th-century U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
  • 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_69d8076aae28819092cf636190ee5529 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbb0ae77e0819081e3b14642460dc6 completed April 12, 2026, 2:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f77fa0b81c819094e2fa209ef9857c completed May 3, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f783c24d088190ad53fa2d33a255c9 completed May 3, 2026, 5:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f78452e8bc8190a55f2be349fe718f completed May 3, 2026, 5:22 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:50 p.m.