Triple
T18663372
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | In the Desert |
E456259
|
entity |
| Predicate | firstPublication |
P309
|
FINISHED |
| Object | The Black Riders and Other Lines |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Black Riders and Other Lines | Statement: [In the Desert, firstPublication, The Black Riders and Other Lines]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Black Riders and Other Lines Context triple: [In the Desert, firstPublication, The Black Riders and Other Lines]
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A.
The Black Riders and Other Lines
chosen
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 Black Rider
The Black Rider is a 1993 avant-garde musical play created by Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs, and Robert Wilson, known for its dark, surreal retelling of a German folktale.
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C.
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.
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D.
Those Who Ride the Night Winds
Those Who Ride the Night Winds is a poetry collection by Nikki Giovanni that celebrates Black cultural icons and explores themes of resilience, identity, and social justice.
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E.
The Snowy Path
The Snowy Path is a notable poetic work by Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky, recognized for its introspective, lyrical exploration of memory, time, and the human condition.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8d38f72b4819090a935175d9ca8af |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5508c0d088190bef46fb3a3001f10 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 10 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:48 a.m.