Triple

T14880316
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jack Gladney E349982 entity
Predicate setting P1957 FINISHED
Object Blacksmith, a midwestern American town (fictional)
Blacksmith is the fictional Midwestern American college town that serves as the primary backdrop for Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise," framing its satire of contemporary family life, academia, and media-saturated culture.
E1125655 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: Blacksmith, a midwestern American town (fictional) | Statement: [Jack Gladney, setting, Blacksmith, a midwestern American town (fictional)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blacksmith, a midwestern American town (fictional)
Context triple: [Jack Gladney, setting, Blacksmith, a midwestern American town (fictional)]
  • A. Fictional town of Mineral City
    The fictional town of Mineral City is the Western frontier community that serves as the backdrop for the adventures and moral tales in the classic television series "The Roy Rogers Show."
  • B. fictional town of Little Big Bear
    The fictional town of Little Big Bear is a remote, rough-edged Canadian community that serves as the tense, crime-ridden backdrop for the television drama "Tin Star."
  • C. fictional town of Carvel
    The fictional town of Carvel is the quintessential small American community that serves as the wholesome backdrop for the coming-of-age stories in the Andy Hardy film series.
  • D. Fictional town of St. Ogg’s
    The fictional town of St. Ogg’s is the provincial English riverside community that forms the central setting of George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss."
  • E. fictional town of Blaine, Missouri
    The fictional town of Blaine, Missouri is a small, eccentric Midwestern community best known as the quirky setting of Christopher Guest’s mockumentary film "Waiting for Guffman."
  • 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: Blacksmith, a midwestern American town (fictional)
Triple: [Jack Gladney, setting, Blacksmith, a midwestern American town (fictional)]
Generated description
Blacksmith is the fictional Midwestern American college town that serves as the primary backdrop for Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise," framing its satire of contemporary family life, academia, and media-saturated culture.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Blacksmith, a midwestern American town (fictional)
Target entity description: Blacksmith is the fictional Midwestern American college town that serves as the primary backdrop for Don DeLillo’s novel "White Noise," framing its satire of contemporary family life, academia, and media-saturated culture.
  • A. Fictional town of Mineral City
    The fictional town of Mineral City is the Western frontier community that serves as the backdrop for the adventures and moral tales in the classic television series "The Roy Rogers Show."
  • B. fictional town of Little Big Bear
    The fictional town of Little Big Bear is a remote, rough-edged Canadian community that serves as the tense, crime-ridden backdrop for the television drama "Tin Star."
  • C. fictional town of Carvel
    The fictional town of Carvel is the quintessential small American community that serves as the wholesome backdrop for the coming-of-age stories in the Andy Hardy film series.
  • D. Fictional town of St. Ogg’s
    The fictional town of St. Ogg’s is the provincial English riverside community that forms the central setting of George Eliot’s novel "The Mill on the Floss."
  • E. fictional town of Blaine, Missouri
    The fictional town of Blaine, Missouri is a small, eccentric Midwestern community best known as the quirky setting of Christopher Guest’s mockumentary film "Waiting for Guffman."
  • 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_69d822ee4f408190b6ac3b2fa434f0df completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded5e622388190b2bf91cd10b9821d completed April 15, 2026, 12:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe6b591f3c81909ea8a9217d96e0d2 completed May 8, 2026, 11:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe6c55d6b88190b0f57009be962194 completed May 8, 2026, 11:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fe6e56e7e88190b70497e168d707de completed May 8, 2026, 11:14 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:55 a.m.