Triple

T10091674
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Michael Cunningham E215357 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object By Nightfall
By Nightfall is a contemporary novel by Michael Cunningham that explores themes of desire, art, and midlife crisis through the story of a New York art dealer whose life is unsettled by the arrival of his wife's younger brother.
E841855 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: By Nightfall | Statement: [Michael Cunningham, notableWork, By Nightfall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: By Nightfall
Context triple: [Michael Cunningham, notableWork, By Nightfall]
  • A. Against the Fall of Night
    Against the Fall of Night is a classic early science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores a far-future, dying Earth and humanity’s quest to transcend its long decline.
  • B. Nightfall
    "Nightfall" is a classic science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that explores the psychological and societal collapse of a civilization experiencing darkness and a view of the stars for the first time.
  • C. There Shall Be No Night
    "There Shall Be No Night" is a Pulitzer Prize-winning World War II-era play by Robert E. Sherwood that dramatizes the Soviet invasion of Finland and the human cost of war.
  • D. Lest Darkness Fall
    Lest Darkness Fall is a classic alternate history science fiction novel by L. Sprague de Camp in which a modern archaeologist is transported to the late Roman Empire and attempts to prevent the onset of the Dark Ages.
  • E. In the Ocean of Night
    "In the Ocean of Night" is a 1977 hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that blends astrophysics, alien contact, and cosmic-scale mystery as part of his larger Galactic Center series.
  • 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: By Nightfall
Triple: [Michael Cunningham, notableWork, By Nightfall]
Generated description
By Nightfall is a contemporary novel by Michael Cunningham that explores themes of desire, art, and midlife crisis through the story of a New York art dealer whose life is unsettled by the arrival of his wife's younger brother.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: By Nightfall
Target entity description: By Nightfall is a contemporary novel by Michael Cunningham that explores themes of desire, art, and midlife crisis through the story of a New York art dealer whose life is unsettled by the arrival of his wife's younger brother.
  • A. Against the Fall of Night
    Against the Fall of Night is a classic early science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores a far-future, dying Earth and humanity’s quest to transcend its long decline.
  • B. Nightfall
    "Nightfall" is a classic science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that explores the psychological and societal collapse of a civilization experiencing darkness and a view of the stars for the first time.
  • C. There Shall Be No Night
    "There Shall Be No Night" is a Pulitzer Prize-winning World War II-era play by Robert E. Sherwood that dramatizes the Soviet invasion of Finland and the human cost of war.
  • D. Lest Darkness Fall
    Lest Darkness Fall is a classic alternate history science fiction novel by L. Sprague de Camp in which a modern archaeologist is transported to the late Roman Empire and attempts to prevent the onset of the Dark Ages.
  • E. In the Ocean of Night
    "In the Ocean of Night" is a 1977 hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that blends astrophysics, alien contact, and cosmic-scale mystery as part of his larger Galactic Center series.
  • 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_69ca83a1eed081908b2e9580f2ebeea7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdd05aa02081908fba02e7085c6d7c completed April 2, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d2cbe40d088190838819eac97c61e4 completed April 5, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2cd8d611c81909085b3290eb54d16 completed April 5, 2026, 9:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2ce686da48190b32a2053b94f1d48 completed April 5, 2026, 9:04 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:01 p.m.