Triple

T4483104
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bill Viola E100176 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Crossing
The Crossing is a renowned video art installation by Bill Viola that explores themes of transformation and spirituality through slow-motion imagery of a figure engulfed alternately by fire and water.
E443977 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 Crossing | Statement: [Bill Viola, notableWork, The Crossing]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Crossing
Context triple: [Bill Viola, notableWork, The Crossing]
  • A. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a 1994 novel by Cormac McCarthy, the second book in his Border Trilogy, following a young cowboy’s harrowing journeys between the United States and Mexico.
  • B. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring detective Harry Bosch teaming up with defense attorney Mickey Haller to investigate a complex murder case.
  • C. De Oversteek
    De Oversteek is a modern road bridge over the River Waal in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, commemorating a historic World War II river crossing.
  • D. From the Other Shore
    From the Other Shore is a collection of philosophical and political essays by Russian thinker Alexander Herzen, reflecting on European revolutions, socialism, and the fate of Russia in the mid-19th century.
  • E. Three Crosses
    Three Crosses is a village on the Gower Peninsula in Swansea, Wales, known as one of the first officially designated villages in Britain.
  • 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 Crossing
Triple: [Bill Viola, notableWork, The Crossing]
Generated description
The Crossing is a renowned video art installation by Bill Viola that explores themes of transformation and spirituality through slow-motion imagery of a figure engulfed alternately by fire and water.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Crossing
Target entity description: The Crossing is a renowned video art installation by Bill Viola that explores themes of transformation and spirituality through slow-motion imagery of a figure engulfed alternately by fire and water.
  • A. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a 1994 novel by Cormac McCarthy, the second book in his Border Trilogy, following a young cowboy’s harrowing journeys between the United States and Mexico.
  • B. The Crossing
    The Crossing is a crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring detective Harry Bosch teaming up with defense attorney Mickey Haller to investigate a complex murder case.
  • C. De Oversteek
    De Oversteek is a modern road bridge over the River Waal in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, commemorating a historic World War II river crossing.
  • D. From the Other Shore
    From the Other Shore is a collection of philosophical and political essays by Russian thinker Alexander Herzen, reflecting on European revolutions, socialism, and the fate of Russia in the mid-19th century.
  • E. Three Crosses
    Three Crosses is a village on the Gower Peninsula in Swansea, Wales, known as one of the first officially designated villages in Britain.
  • 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_69b34553cbe48190afa8ac1cac285b86 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b356fd35088190be79efc6c7317e2a completed March 13, 2026, 12:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b6378930c48190ae589a895e5b7bc6 completed March 15, 2026, 4:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b63b677048819091f4c89ecd620221 completed March 15, 2026, 4:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b63fa0b3f48190938431d39adf4a7f completed March 15, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:36 p.m.