Triple
T19194949
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Horace McCoy |
E469941
|
entity |
| Predicate | wrote |
P2831
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FINISHED |
| Object | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
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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: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Statement: [Horace McCoy, wrote, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Context triple: [Horace McCoy, wrote, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?]
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A.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
"They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" is a 1969 American drama film directed by Sydney Pollack, renowned for its bleak depiction of a Depression-era dance marathon and its exploration of human desperation.
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B.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (novel)
chosen
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? is a 1935 novel by Horace McCoy that portrays the desperation and psychological breakdown of Depression-era contestants in a brutal marathon dance competition.
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C.
The Lonesome Crowded West
The Lonesome Crowded West is a critically acclaimed 1997 indie rock album by Modest Mouse, often regarded as one of the defining records of the American indie scene of the late 1990s.
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D.
Four Rusted Horses
"Four Rusted Horses" is a dark, atmospheric song by Marilyn Manson from his 2009 album *The High End of Low*, noted for its bleak, apocalyptic imagery and brooding tone.
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E.
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Pale Horse, Pale Rider is a modernist novella by Katherine Anne Porter that intertwines a love story with the devastation of the 1918 influenza pandemic and the psychological impact of World War I.
- 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_69d8dd0ad9088190a173b32657ae2e7a |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5f8a4d6b4819083fc5dd4dab05811 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 9:57 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:07 p.m.