Triple

T2902797
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cormac McCarthy E62689 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Cities of the Plain
Cities of the Plain is a 1998 novel by Cormac McCarthy that concludes his Border Trilogy, following cowboys John Grady Cole and Billy Parham along the U.S.–Mexico border in a stark, tragic exploration of love, violence, and fate.
E309672 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 Plain | Statement: [Cormac McCarthy, notableWork, Cities of the Plain]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cities of the Plain
Context triple: [Cormac McCarthy, notableWork, Cities of the Plain]
  • A. Lords of the Plains
    Lords of the Plains is a renowned epithet for the Comanche, a Native American people historically famed for their exceptional horsemanship, warrior culture, and dominance across the Southern Plains.
  • B. Cimarron
    Cimarron is a 1981 country music album by Emmylou Harris known for its blend of contemporary country and pop-influenced songs.
  • C. O Pioneers!
    O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by Willa Cather that portrays the struggles and triumphs of a Swedish-American pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie, often cited as a classic of American frontier literature.
  • D. End of the Trail
    End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
  • E. Land of My Fathers
    Land of My Fathers is the English title of the Welsh national anthem, a patriotic song celebrating the heritage and landscape of Wales.
  • 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 Plain
Triple: [Cormac McCarthy, notableWork, Cities of the Plain]
Generated description
Cities of the Plain is a 1998 novel by Cormac McCarthy that concludes his Border Trilogy, following cowboys John Grady Cole and Billy Parham along the U.S.–Mexico border in a stark, tragic exploration of love, violence, and fate.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cities of the Plain
Target entity description: Cities of the Plain is a 1998 novel by Cormac McCarthy that concludes his Border Trilogy, following cowboys John Grady Cole and Billy Parham along the U.S.–Mexico border in a stark, tragic exploration of love, violence, and fate.
  • A. Lords of the Plains
    Lords of the Plains is a renowned epithet for the Comanche, a Native American people historically famed for their exceptional horsemanship, warrior culture, and dominance across the Southern Plains.
  • B. Cimarron
    Cimarron is a 1981 country music album by Emmylou Harris known for its blend of contemporary country and pop-influenced songs.
  • C. O Pioneers!
    O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by Willa Cather that portrays the struggles and triumphs of a Swedish-American pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie, often cited as a classic of American frontier literature.
  • D. End of the Trail
    End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
  • E. Land of My Fathers
    Land of My Fathers is the English title of the Welsh national anthem, a patriotic song celebrating the heritage and landscape of Wales.
  • 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.