Triple
T2894265
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William S. Burroughs |
E63899
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
The Place of Dead Roads
The Place of Dead Roads is a surreal, nonlinear novel by William S. Burroughs that blends Western motifs, science fiction, and experimental prose to explore themes of death, sexuality, and control.
|
E308210
|
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: The Place of Dead Roads | Statement: [William S. Burroughs, notableWork, The Place of Dead Roads]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Place of Dead Roads Context triple: [William S. Burroughs, notableWork, The Place of Dead Roads]
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A.
The Black Riders and Other Lines
The Black Riders and Other Lines is a collection of brief, free-verse poems noted for their stark imagery, unconventional style, and early modernist sensibility.
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B.
The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness is Dorothy Day’s spiritual autobiography, chronicling her journey from radical activism to Catholic faith and the founding of the Catholic Worker movement.
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C.
Spirit of the Dead Watching
Spirit of the Dead Watching is a 1892 Symbolist painting by Paul Gauguin depicting a young Tahitian girl lying fearfully on her bed while a mysterious, ghostly figure looms in the background.
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D.
Strange Meeting
"Strange Meeting" is a renowned anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen that depicts a surreal encounter between two dead soldiers, powerfully conveying the futility and horror of war.
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E.
The Dead
"The Dead" is a World War I poem by English poet Rupert Brooke that idealizes the noble sacrifice of fallen soldiers.
- 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: The Place of Dead Roads Triple: [William S. Burroughs, notableWork, The Place of Dead Roads]
Generated description
The Place of Dead Roads is a surreal, nonlinear novel by William S. Burroughs that blends Western motifs, science fiction, and experimental prose to explore themes of death, sexuality, and control.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Place of Dead Roads Target entity description: The Place of Dead Roads is a surreal, nonlinear novel by William S. Burroughs that blends Western motifs, science fiction, and experimental prose to explore themes of death, sexuality, and control.
-
A.
The Black Riders and Other Lines
The Black Riders and Other Lines is a collection of brief, free-verse poems noted for their stark imagery, unconventional style, and early modernist sensibility.
-
B.
The Long Loneliness
The Long Loneliness is Dorothy Day’s spiritual autobiography, chronicling her journey from radical activism to Catholic faith and the founding of the Catholic Worker movement.
-
C.
Spirit of the Dead Watching
Spirit of the Dead Watching is a 1892 Symbolist painting by Paul Gauguin depicting a young Tahitian girl lying fearfully on her bed while a mysterious, ghostly figure looms in the background.
-
D.
Strange Meeting
"Strange Meeting" is a renowned anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen that depicts a surreal encounter between two dead soldiers, powerfully conveying the futility and horror of war.
-
E.
The Dead
"The Dead" is a World War I poem by English poet Rupert Brooke that idealizes the noble sacrifice of fallen soldiers.
- 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_69ab4c45822c8190830c5f2bb97bcfd0 |
completed | March 6, 2026, 9:51 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abe063de6c8190bce9ddefd1dd62e1 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 8:23 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b031814764819096a1664b468ec817 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 2:58 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b03206ad288190aaa97a9379f3438c |
completed | March 10, 2026, 3 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b0398b955c81909c6155706f4b90e9 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 3:32 p.m. |
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:07 p.m.