Triple

T2308419
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject In the Heat of the Night E51893 entity
Predicate follows P134 FINISHED
Object In the Heat of the Night (novel) publication in 1965
"In the Heat of the Night" is a 1965 crime novel by John Ball that introduced Black police detective Virgil Tibbs and explores themes of racism and justice in a small Southern town.
E51893 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: In the Heat of the Night (novel) publication in 1965 | Statement: [In the Heat of the Night, follows, In the Heat of the Night (novel) publication in 1965]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: In the Heat of the Night (novel) publication in 1965
Context triple: [In the Heat of the Night, follows, In the Heat of the Night (novel) publication in 1965]
  • A. In the Heat of the Night
    In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American crime drama film starring Sidney Poitier as a Black detective investigating a murder in a racially tense Southern town, noted for its powerful exploration of racism and social justice.
  • B. A Time to Kill
    A Time to Kill is a 1996 legal drama film based on John Grisham's novel, centered on a racially charged trial in Mississippi.
  • C. Going to Meet the Man
    Going to Meet the Man is a 1965 short story collection by James Baldwin that explores themes of race, violence, sexuality, and power in mid-20th-century America.
  • D. The Color Purple (novel)
    The Color Purple is a Pulitzer Prize–winning epistolary novel by Alice Walker that follows the life, struggles, and spiritual awakening of an African American woman in the early 20th-century American South.
  • E. Ghosts of Mississippi
    Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American courtroom drama film about the retrial of civil rights activist Medgar Evers’ assassin, featuring James Woods in an acclaimed supporting role.
  • 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: In the Heat of the Night (novel) publication in 1965
Triple: [In the Heat of the Night, follows, In the Heat of the Night (novel) publication in 1965]
Generated description
"In the Heat of the Night" is a 1965 crime novel by John Ball that introduced Black police detective Virgil Tibbs and explores themes of racism and justice in a small Southern town.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: In the Heat of the Night (novel) publication in 1965
Target entity description: "In the Heat of the Night" is a 1965 crime novel by John Ball that introduced Black police detective Virgil Tibbs and explores themes of racism and justice in a small Southern town.
  • A. In the Heat of the Night chosen
    In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American crime drama film starring Sidney Poitier as a Black detective investigating a murder in a racially tense Southern town, noted for its powerful exploration of racism and social justice.
  • B. A Time to Kill
    A Time to Kill is a 1996 legal drama film based on John Grisham's novel, centered on a racially charged trial in Mississippi.
  • C. Going to Meet the Man
    Going to Meet the Man is a 1965 short story collection by James Baldwin that explores themes of race, violence, sexuality, and power in mid-20th-century America.
  • D. The Color Purple (novel)
    The Color Purple is a Pulitzer Prize–winning epistolary novel by Alice Walker that follows the life, struggles, and spiritual awakening of an African American woman in the early 20th-century American South.
  • E. Ghosts of Mississippi
    Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American courtroom drama film about the retrial of civil rights activist Medgar Evers’ assassin, featuring James Woods in an acclaimed supporting role.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a88b0bb30c81908ded03b006d29387 completed March 4, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc607cf4881908ba4ea2a7f5dedc9 completed March 7, 2026, 6:30 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae7f3a007c8190b5c8683ced9d77fa completed March 9, 2026, 8:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae7fee12ac8190bb9924f7467434a6 completed March 9, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae8061cd348190b0b0b65dcf730f99 completed March 9, 2026, 8:10 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:49 p.m.