Triple

T2081327
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sam Shepard E45248 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object A Lie of the Mind
A Lie of the Mind is a 1985 play by American playwright Sam Shepard that explores themes of family dysfunction, violence, and the fragility of identity in the American West.
E231456 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: A Lie of the Mind | Statement: [Sam Shepard, notableWork, A Lie of the Mind]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Lie of the Mind
Context triple: [Sam Shepard, notableWork, A Lie of the Mind]
  • A. A Delicate Balance
    A Delicate Balance is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Edward Albee that explores the fragility of family relationships and the existential anxieties underlying upper-middle-class life.
  • B. Rabbit Hole
    "Rabbit Hole" is a 2010 drama film, adapted from David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play, about a couple coping with the grief of losing their young son.
  • C. The Pillowman (Broadway production)
    The Pillowman (Broadway production) is the acclaimed Broadway staging of Martin McDonagh’s darkly comic, psychologically intense play about a writer interrogated over gruesome stories that resemble real-life child murders.
  • D. The Awful Truth
    The Awful Truth is a 1937 screwball comedy film starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, celebrated for its witty dialogue and influential role in defining the genre.
  • E. Krapp's Last Tape
    Krapp's Last Tape is a one-act monodrama by Samuel Beckett that explores memory, aging, and regret through an old man listening to recordings of his younger self.
  • 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: A Lie of the Mind
Triple: [Sam Shepard, notableWork, A Lie of the Mind]
Generated description
A Lie of the Mind is a 1985 play by American playwright Sam Shepard that explores themes of family dysfunction, violence, and the fragility of identity in the American West.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Lie of the Mind
Target entity description: A Lie of the Mind is a 1985 play by American playwright Sam Shepard that explores themes of family dysfunction, violence, and the fragility of identity in the American West.
  • A. A Delicate Balance
    A Delicate Balance is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Edward Albee that explores the fragility of family relationships and the existential anxieties underlying upper-middle-class life.
  • B. Rabbit Hole
    "Rabbit Hole" is a 2010 drama film, adapted from David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play, about a couple coping with the grief of losing their young son.
  • C. The Pillowman (Broadway production)
    The Pillowman (Broadway production) is the acclaimed Broadway staging of Martin McDonagh’s darkly comic, psychologically intense play about a writer interrogated over gruesome stories that resemble real-life child murders.
  • D. The Awful Truth
    The Awful Truth is a 1937 screwball comedy film starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, celebrated for its witty dialogue and influential role in defining the genre.
  • E. Krapp's Last Tape
    Krapp's Last Tape is a one-act monodrama by Samuel Beckett that explores memory, aging, and regret through an old man listening to recordings of his younger self.
  • 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_69a8891869c88190a02643e3bb746f59 completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abba35c2588190933dba882f52dd17 completed March 7, 2026, 5:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae273ad87c8190a7b1407868692202 completed March 9, 2026, 1:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae27b2c9d08190b1950abd8d41d3b3 completed March 9, 2026, 1:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae2817ce3c81908e48170760cf98ef completed March 9, 2026, 1:53 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.