Triple

T2081337
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sam Shepard E45248 entity
Predicate genre P14 FINISHED
Object American Western
American Western is a genre of film and literature that dramatizes life on the American frontier, typically featuring cowboys, outlaws, lawmen, and conflicts over justice, land, and survival in the Old West.
 E6881 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: American Western | Statement: [Sam Shepard, genre, American Western]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: American Western
Context triple: [Sam Shepard, genre, American Western]
  • A. Western
    Western is a Canadian public research university located in London, Ontario, known for its strong programs in business, health sciences, and social sciences.
  • B. Old West
    The Old West refers to the 19th-century American frontier era characterized by westward expansion, cowboys, lawlessness, and conflicts between settlers, Native Americans, and outlaws.
  • C. Western Romance
    Western Romance is a branch of the Romance language family that includes languages such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, and others that evolved in Western Europe from Latin.
  • D. West
    West is a prominent American legal publishing company best known for producing case law reporters, legal research tools, and the Westlaw online database.
  • E. West
    West is the surname of Kanye West, the influential American rapper, producer, and fashion designer.
  • 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: American Western
Triple: [Sam Shepard, genre, American Western]
Generated description
American Western is a genre of film and literature that dramatizes life on the American frontier, typically featuring cowboys, outlaws, lawmen, and conflicts over justice, land, and survival in the Old West.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: American Western
Target entity description: American Western is a genre of film and literature that dramatizes life on the American frontier, typically featuring cowboys, outlaws, lawmen, and conflicts over justice, land, and survival in the Old West.
  • A. Western
    Western is a Canadian public research university located in London, Ontario, known for its strong programs in business, health sciences, and social sciences.
  • B. Old West chosen
    The Old West refers to the 19th-century American frontier era characterized by westward expansion, cowboys, lawlessness, and conflicts between settlers, Native Americans, and outlaws.
  • C. Western Romance
    Western Romance is a branch of the Romance language family that includes languages such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, and others that evolved in Western Europe from Latin.
  • D. West
    West is a prominent American legal publishing company best known for producing case law reporters, legal research tools, and the Westlaw online database.
  • E. West
    West is the surname of Kanye West, the influential American rapper, producer, and fashion designer.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a8891869c88190a02643e3bb746f59 completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abba35c2588190933dba882f52dd17 completed March 7, 2026, 5:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae273ad87c8190a7b1407868692202 completed March 9, 2026, 1:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae27b2c9d08190b1950abd8d41d3b3 completed March 9, 2026, 1:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae2817ce3c81908e48170760cf98ef completed March 9, 2026, 1:53 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.