Triple

T4110275
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject August Wilson E88555 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Pittsburgh Cycle
The Pittsburgh Cycle is August Wilson’s acclaimed ten-play series chronicling African American life in Pittsburgh across each decade of the 20th century.
E414017 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 Pittsburgh Cycle | Statement: [August Wilson, notableWork, The Pittsburgh Cycle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Pittsburgh Cycle
Context triple: [August Wilson, notableWork, The Pittsburgh Cycle]
  • A. The Electric City
    The Electric City is the nickname of Schenectady, New York, reflecting its historic role as a major center for the electrical industry and home to General Electric.
  • B. Steelopolis
    Steelopolis is a nickname for the Scottish town of Motherwell, historically known for its major steel production industry.
  • C. Steeltown
    Steeltown is a nickname for the Canadian city of Hamilton, reflecting its historic prominence as a major steel-producing industrial center.
  • D. City of Workers
    "City of Workers" is a nickname for Lawrence, Massachusetts, reflecting its historic role as a major industrial mill city with a large working-class population.
  • E. Plea for the West
    Plea for the West is a 19th-century religious and social commentary in which Lyman Beecher warns against perceived moral and religious decline in the American West and advocates for Protestant influence in the region.
  • 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 Pittsburgh Cycle
Triple: [August Wilson, notableWork, The Pittsburgh Cycle]
Generated description
The Pittsburgh Cycle is August Wilson’s acclaimed ten-play series chronicling African American life in Pittsburgh across each decade of the 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Pittsburgh Cycle
Target entity description: The Pittsburgh Cycle is August Wilson’s acclaimed ten-play series chronicling African American life in Pittsburgh across each decade of the 20th century.
  • A. The Electric City
    The Electric City is the nickname of Schenectady, New York, reflecting its historic role as a major center for the electrical industry and home to General Electric.
  • B. Steelopolis
    Steelopolis is a nickname for the Scottish town of Motherwell, historically known for its major steel production industry.
  • C. Steeltown
    Steeltown is a nickname for the Canadian city of Hamilton, reflecting its historic prominence as a major steel-producing industrial center.
  • D. City of Workers
    "City of Workers" is a nickname for Lawrence, Massachusetts, reflecting its historic role as a major industrial mill city with a large working-class population.
  • E. Plea for the West
    Plea for the West is a 19th-century religious and social commentary in which Lyman Beecher warns against perceived moral and religious decline in the American West and advocates for Protestant influence in the region.
  • 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_69aed9484fb881909146f4c772ad277c completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af01dbe9808190aefdc89e426cc4de completed March 9, 2026, 5:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b56b88228c8190ae971b54148e38a9 completed March 14, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b56cbf12348190836f79e509468a3d completed March 14, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b570aef9008190bf8ef2deb00178ae completed March 14, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:41 p.m.