Triple

T4110283
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject August Wilson E88555 entity
Predicate series P1761 FINISHED
Object Pittsburgh Cycle
Pittsburgh Cycle is August Wilson’s acclaimed ten-play series chronicling African American life in the 20th-century United States, with each play set in a different decade, mostly in Pittsburgh’s Hill District.
 E414019 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: Pittsburgh Cycle | Statement: [August Wilson, series, Pittsburgh Cycle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Pittsburgh Cycle
Context triple: [August Wilson, series, Pittsburgh Cycle]
  • A. Pittsburgh–Cincinnati
    Pittsburgh–Cincinnati refers to the intercity rail corridor linking Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Cincinnati, Ohio, historically used by passenger and freight trains.
  • B. Pittsburgh Professionals
    Pittsburgh Professionals were an early 20th-century professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that competed in the International Professional Hockey League.
  • C. Pittsburgh–St. Louis
    Pittsburgh–St. Louis refers to the intercity rail corridor linking Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with St. Louis, Missouri, historically used by major Midwestern and Eastern railroads.
  • D. Steel City
    Steel City is a nickname for Lorain, Ohio, reflecting its historic role as a major center of steel production and heavy industry.
  • E. Steel City
    Steel City is the industrial nickname for Pueblo, Colorado, reflecting its historic role as a major steel-producing center in the United States.
  • 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: Pittsburgh Cycle
Triple: [August Wilson, series, Pittsburgh Cycle]
Generated description
Pittsburgh Cycle is August Wilson’s acclaimed ten-play series chronicling African American life in the 20th-century United States, with each play set in a different decade, mostly in Pittsburgh’s Hill District.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Pittsburgh Cycle
Target entity description: Pittsburgh Cycle is August Wilson’s acclaimed ten-play series chronicling African American life in the 20th-century United States, with each play set in a different decade, mostly in Pittsburgh’s Hill District.
  • A. Pittsburgh–Cincinnati
    Pittsburgh–Cincinnati refers to the intercity rail corridor linking Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Cincinnati, Ohio, historically used by passenger and freight trains.
  • B. Pittsburgh Professionals
    Pittsburgh Professionals were an early 20th-century professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that competed in the International Professional Hockey League.
  • C. Pittsburgh–St. Louis
    Pittsburgh–St. Louis refers to the intercity rail corridor linking Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with St. Louis, Missouri, historically used by major Midwestern and Eastern railroads.
  • D. Steel City
    Steel City is a nickname for Lorain, Ohio, reflecting its historic role as a major center of steel production and heavy industry.
  • E. Steel City
    Steel City is the industrial nickname for Pueblo, Colorado, reflecting its historic role as a major steel-producing center in the United States.
  • 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_69aed9484fb881909146f4c772ad277c completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af01dbe9808190aefdc89e426cc4de completed March 9, 2026, 5:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b56b88228c8190ae971b54148e38a9 completed March 14, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b56cbf12348190836f79e509468a3d completed March 14, 2026, 2:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b570aef9008190bf8ef2deb00178ae completed March 14, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:41 p.m.