Triple

T2902792
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cormac McCarthy E62689 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Outer Dark
Outer Dark is a bleak and haunting early novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a woman and her brother through a nightmarish rural American landscape after the abandonment of their incestuous child.
E309667 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: Outer Dark | Statement: [Cormac McCarthy, notableWork, Outer Dark]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Outer Dark
Context triple: [Cormac McCarthy, notableWork, Outer Dark]
  • A. The Colour Out of Space
    The Colour Out of Space is a 1927 science fiction–horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft about a mysterious extraterrestrial presence that slowly corrupts a rural New England farm and its inhabitants.
  • B. The Ritual
    The Ritual is a British horror film, based on Adam Nevill’s novel, about a group of friends who encounter a sinister presence while hiking in a remote Scandinavian forest.
  • C. Door into the Dark
    Door into the Dark is a 1969 poetry collection by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that deepens his exploration of rural life, memory, and identity through richly textured, earthy verse.
  • D. the Pale Man
    The Pale Man is a terrifying, child-eating monster from the dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth," known for his sagging skin and eyes embedded in his hands.
  • E. The Valley of Ghosts
    The Valley of Ghosts is a mystery novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, known for its suspenseful crime plot and atmospheric setting.
  • 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: Outer Dark
Triple: [Cormac McCarthy, notableWork, Outer Dark]
Generated description
Outer Dark is a bleak and haunting early novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a woman and her brother through a nightmarish rural American landscape after the abandonment of their incestuous child.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Outer Dark
Target entity description: Outer Dark is a bleak and haunting early novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a woman and her brother through a nightmarish rural American landscape after the abandonment of their incestuous child.
  • A. The Colour Out of Space
    The Colour Out of Space is a 1927 science fiction–horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft about a mysterious extraterrestrial presence that slowly corrupts a rural New England farm and its inhabitants.
  • B. The Ritual
    The Ritual is a British horror film, based on Adam Nevill’s novel, about a group of friends who encounter a sinister presence while hiking in a remote Scandinavian forest.
  • C. Door into the Dark
    Door into the Dark is a 1969 poetry collection by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that deepens his exploration of rural life, memory, and identity through richly textured, earthy verse.
  • D. the Pale Man
    The Pale Man is a terrifying, child-eating monster from the dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth," known for his sagging skin and eyes embedded in his hands.
  • E. The Valley of Ghosts
    The Valley of Ghosts is a mystery novel by British writer Edgar Wallace, known for its suspenseful crime plot and atmospheric setting.
  • 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_69ab4c3e070c8190b78d3d2c005876dd completed March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abe0b3d20881908cd4f1b465b504af completed March 7, 2026, 8:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b0560885688190b5bb51f40d555c4d completed March 10, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b0638095b48190b3d7afa5eeef3e7a completed March 10, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b063edf4ac8190bbcd430c8b584c95 completed March 10, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:10 p.m.