Triple

T2479665
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Skin of Our Teeth E55182 entity
Predicate setting P1957 FINISHED
Object Excelsior, New Jersey
Excelsior, New Jersey is the fictional small American town that serves as the primary setting of Thornton Wilder’s play "The Skin of Our Teeth."
 E519724 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: Excelsior, New Jersey | Statement: [The Skin of Our Teeth, setting, Excelsior, New Jersey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Excelsior, New Jersey
Context triple: [The Skin of Our Teeth, setting, Excelsior, New Jersey]
  • A. Rutherford, New Jersey
    Rutherford, New Jersey is a suburban borough in Bergen County known for its residential character and proximity to New York City.
  • B. Newton, New Jersey
    Newton, New Jersey is a small historic town in Sussex County that serves as a regional commercial and governmental center in northwestern New Jersey.
  • C. Leonia, New Jersey
    Leonia, New Jersey is a small suburban borough in Bergen County known for its residential character and proximity to New York City.
  • D. Pleasantville, New Jersey
    Pleasantville, New Jersey is a small city in Atlantic County near Atlantic City, known as a residential and commercial community within the greater South Jersey region.
  • E. Passaic, New Jersey
    Passaic, New Jersey is a densely populated city in Passaic County known historically as an industrial and immigrant hub along the Passaic River in northern New Jersey.
  • 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: Excelsior, New Jersey
Triple: [The Skin of Our Teeth, setting, Excelsior, New Jersey]
Generated description
Excelsior, New Jersey is the fictional small American town that serves as the primary setting of Thornton Wilder’s play "The Skin of Our Teeth."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Excelsior, New Jersey
Target entity description: Excelsior, New Jersey is the fictional small American town that serves as the primary setting of Thornton Wilder’s play "The Skin of Our Teeth."
  • A. Rutherford, New Jersey
    Rutherford, New Jersey is a suburban borough in Bergen County known for its residential character and proximity to New York City.
  • B. Newton, New Jersey
    Newton, New Jersey is a small historic town in Sussex County that serves as a regional commercial and governmental center in northwestern New Jersey.
  • C. Leonia, New Jersey
    Leonia, New Jersey is a small suburban borough in Bergen County known for its residential character and proximity to New York City.
  • D. Pleasantville, New Jersey
    Pleasantville, New Jersey is a small city in Atlantic County near Atlantic City, known as a residential and commercial community within the greater South Jersey region.
  • E. Passaic, New Jersey
    Passaic, New Jersey is a densely populated city in Passaic County known historically as an industrial and immigrant hub along the Passaic River in northern New Jersey.
  • 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_69ab49e279e88190ab10d7248aea9d11 completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd15f95888190a94b5fef7fdf1bcb completed March 7, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf3a763c5081909cfb4b209207c859 completed March 22, 2026, 12:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf3b1bfaec8190a9c1cfa734e1a529 completed March 22, 2026, 12:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf3ec2e6c88190a7e965d06455dccd completed March 22, 2026, 12:58 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:45 p.m.