Triple

T3101303
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gore Vidal E64724 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The City and the Pillar
The City and the Pillar is a groundbreaking 1948 novel by Gore Vidal that candidly portrays a young gay man's life and desires in postwar America, challenging mid-20th-century taboos about homosexuality.
E326673 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: The City and the Pillar | Statement: [Gore Vidal, notableWork, The City and the Pillar]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The City and the Pillar
Context triple: [Gore Vidal, notableWork, The City and the Pillar]
  • A. Giovanni's Room
    Giovanni's Room is a groundbreaking 1956 novel by James Baldwin that explores themes of sexuality, identity, and alienation through the tragic love affair between two men in Paris.
  • B. The Loved One
    The Loved One is a darkly comic novella by Evelyn Waugh that satirizes the American funeral industry and Hollywood culture.
  • C. Kings Row
    Kings Row is a 1942 American drama film set in a small Midwestern town, known for its dark exploration of social hypocrisy and psychological trauma.
  • D. Steppenwolf
    Steppenwolf is a powerful New God warlord from Apokolips who serves as a primary antagonist in DC Comics and its film adaptations, notably battling the Justice League.
  • E. Crimes Against Nature
    "Crimes Against Nature" is a nonfiction book by environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that critiques corporate pollution and government complicity in environmental degradation.
  • 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: The City and the Pillar
Triple: [Gore Vidal, notableWork, The City and the Pillar]
Generated description
The City and the Pillar is a groundbreaking 1948 novel by Gore Vidal that candidly portrays a young gay man's life and desires in postwar America, challenging mid-20th-century taboos about homosexuality.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The City and the Pillar
Target entity description: The City and the Pillar is a groundbreaking 1948 novel by Gore Vidal that candidly portrays a young gay man's life and desires in postwar America, challenging mid-20th-century taboos about homosexuality.
  • A. Giovanni's Room
    Giovanni's Room is a groundbreaking 1956 novel by James Baldwin that explores themes of sexuality, identity, and alienation through the tragic love affair between two men in Paris.
  • B. The Loved One
    The Loved One is a darkly comic novella by Evelyn Waugh that satirizes the American funeral industry and Hollywood culture.
  • C. Kings Row
    Kings Row is a 1942 American drama film set in a small Midwestern town, known for its dark exploration of social hypocrisy and psychological trauma.
  • D. Steppenwolf
    Steppenwolf is a powerful New God warlord from Apokolips who serves as a primary antagonist in DC Comics and its film adaptations, notably battling the Justice League.
  • E. Crimes Against Nature
    "Crimes Against Nature" is a nonfiction book by environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that critiques corporate pollution and government complicity in environmental degradation.
  • 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_69ad857dc98481909e585dc3372e3ed5 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada26c76ec81908d11f82be573c518 completed March 8, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b203809fac81908047b1139b13cb04 completed March 12, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b20532b7388190be5f7bcf48db6f45 completed March 12, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2058d7c4c8190a44fc8745df3b1b3 completed March 12, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:03 p.m.