Triple

T4171150
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Italo Calvino E84564 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities is a 1972 experimental novel by Italo Calvino in which Marco Polo describes a series of fantastical, metaphor-laden cities to Kublai Khan, exploring themes of memory, imagination, and the nature of urban life.
E417928 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: Invisible Cities | Statement: [Italo Calvino, notableWork, Invisible Cities]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Invisible Cities
Context triple: [Italo Calvino, notableWork, Invisible Cities]
  • A. The Subterraneans
    The Subterraneans is a semi-autobiographical Beat Generation novel by Jack Kerouac that portrays a brief, intense love affair set against the bohemian jazz scene of 1950s San Francisco.
  • B. Babel Tower
    "Babel Tower" is a 1996 novel by A. S. Byatt that intricately weaves themes of language, law, and personal freedom within a richly detailed portrayal of 1960s England.
  • C. City of a Hundred Spires
    City of a Hundred Spires is a poetic nickname for Prague, highlighting its skyline filled with historic church towers and spires.
  • D. City of a Thousand Rivers
    City of a Thousand Rivers is the English nickname for Banjarmasin, an Indonesian city famed for its extensive river networks and floating markets.
  • E. City of Poets
    City of Poets is a celebrated nickname for Shiraz, Iran, renowned as the home of legendary Persian poets such as Hafez and Saadi and a historic center of literature and culture.
  • 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: Invisible Cities
Triple: [Italo Calvino, notableWork, Invisible Cities]
Generated description
Invisible Cities is a 1972 experimental novel by Italo Calvino in which Marco Polo describes a series of fantastical, metaphor-laden cities to Kublai Khan, exploring themes of memory, imagination, and the nature of urban life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Invisible Cities
Target entity description: Invisible Cities is a 1972 experimental novel by Italo Calvino in which Marco Polo describes a series of fantastical, metaphor-laden cities to Kublai Khan, exploring themes of memory, imagination, and the nature of urban life.
  • A. The Subterraneans
    The Subterraneans is a semi-autobiographical Beat Generation novel by Jack Kerouac that portrays a brief, intense love affair set against the bohemian jazz scene of 1950s San Francisco.
  • B. Babel Tower
    "Babel Tower" is a 1996 novel by A. S. Byatt that intricately weaves themes of language, law, and personal freedom within a richly detailed portrayal of 1960s England.
  • C. City of a Hundred Spires
    City of a Hundred Spires is a poetic nickname for Prague, highlighting its skyline filled with historic church towers and spires.
  • D. City of a Thousand Rivers
    City of a Thousand Rivers is the English nickname for Banjarmasin, an Indonesian city famed for its extensive river networks and floating markets.
  • E. City of Poets
    City of Poets is a celebrated nickname for Shiraz, Iran, renowned as the home of legendary Persian poets such as Hafez and Saadi and a historic center of literature and culture.
  • 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_69aed932cab48190b80ffe35f7029ae1 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af02c9e12c81908d0b22671fea2453 completed March 9, 2026, 5:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b57f4ef1a08190a232ed94595a86e8 completed March 14, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b580e08e888190b48ddae4435c984a completed March 14, 2026, 3:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5817b52bc8190aba6863a9ef05acf completed March 14, 2026, 3:40 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:45 p.m.