Triple

T2894264
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William S. Burroughs E63899 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Cities of the Red Night
Cities of the Red Night is a surreal, nonlinear novel by William S. Burroughs that blends pirate adventure, occult themes, and dystopian visions in an experimental narrative style.
E308209 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: Cities of the Red Night | Statement: [William S. Burroughs, notableWork, Cities of the Red Night]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cities of the Red Night
Context triple: [William S. Burroughs, notableWork, Cities of the Red Night]
  • A. City of Winters
    The City of Winters is a small agricultural and wine-country community in Northern California known for its historic downtown and proximity to outdoor recreation areas.
  • B. Red Corridor
    The Red Corridor is a region in eastern and central India characterized by significant Maoist (Naxalite) insurgent activity and ongoing left-wing extremist conflict.
  • C. City of Souls
    City of Souls is the somber nickname for Colma, California, a small town famous for its vast cemeteries and far larger population of the dead than the living.
  • D. The Backbone of Night
    "The Backbone of Night" is an episode of the science documentary series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" in which Carl Sagan explores humanity’s evolving understanding of the Milky Way and our place in the universe.
  • E. Four Darks in Red
    Four Darks in Red is a 1958 abstract expressionist painting by Mark Rothko, characterized by large, somber rectangular fields of dark color that evoke a meditative, emotional atmosphere.
  • 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: Cities of the Red Night
Triple: [William S. Burroughs, notableWork, Cities of the Red Night]
Generated description
Cities of the Red Night is a surreal, nonlinear novel by William S. Burroughs that blends pirate adventure, occult themes, and dystopian visions in an experimental narrative style.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cities of the Red Night
Target entity description: Cities of the Red Night is a surreal, nonlinear novel by William S. Burroughs that blends pirate adventure, occult themes, and dystopian visions in an experimental narrative style.
  • A. City of Winters
    The City of Winters is a small agricultural and wine-country community in Northern California known for its historic downtown and proximity to outdoor recreation areas.
  • B. Red Corridor
    The Red Corridor is a region in eastern and central India characterized by significant Maoist (Naxalite) insurgent activity and ongoing left-wing extremist conflict.
  • C. City of Souls
    City of Souls is the somber nickname for Colma, California, a small town famous for its vast cemeteries and far larger population of the dead than the living.
  • D. The Backbone of Night
    "The Backbone of Night" is an episode of the science documentary series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" in which Carl Sagan explores humanity’s evolving understanding of the Milky Way and our place in the universe.
  • E. Four Darks in Red
    Four Darks in Red is a 1958 abstract expressionist painting by Mark Rothko, characterized by large, somber rectangular fields of dark color that evoke a meditative, emotional atmosphere.
  • 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_69ab4c45822c8190830c5f2bb97bcfd0 completed March 6, 2026, 9:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abe063de6c8190bce9ddefd1dd62e1 completed March 7, 2026, 8:23 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b031814764819096a1664b468ec817 completed March 10, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b03206ad288190aaa97a9379f3438c completed March 10, 2026, 3 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b0398b955c81909c6155706f4b90e9 completed March 10, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:07 p.m.