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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.