Triple

T4890268
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Cowboys E109540 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object The Cowboys (novel)
The Cowboys (novel) is a Western story that follows a group of schoolboys hired as cattle drivers after adult cowhands leave for a gold rush, exploring themes of coming-of-age, responsibility, and frontier justice.
 E476512 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 Cowboys (novel) | Statement: [The Cowboys, basedOn, The Cowboys (novel)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Cowboys (novel)
Context triple: [The Cowboys, basedOn, The Cowboys (novel)]
  • A. King of the Cowboys
    King of the Cowboys is the famous nickname of Roy Rogers, the iconic American singing cowboy star of mid-20th-century Western films, radio, and television.
  • B. Lonesome Dove
    Lonesome Dove is a critically acclaimed Western television miniseries, based on Larry McMurtry’s novel, that follows two retired Texas Rangers on an epic cattle drive from Texas to Montana.
  • C. The Lone Star
    The Lone Star is a popular nickname for the national flag of Chile, highlighting its single prominent white star on a blue field.
  • D. the Cowboy
    The Cowboy is a rugged, archetypal Western figure whose stoic demeanor and frontier values contrast sharply with the tense, claustrophobic setting and psychological drama of Stephen Crane’s story "The Blue Hotel."
  • E. Pro Texana
    Pro Texana is a component or section of the journal *Pro Ecclesia, Pro Texana*, likely focusing on issues related to the state of Texas.
  • 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 Cowboys (novel)
Triple: [The Cowboys, basedOn, The Cowboys (novel)]
Generated description
The Cowboys (novel) is a Western story that follows a group of schoolboys hired as cattle drivers after adult cowhands leave for a gold rush, exploring themes of coming-of-age, responsibility, and frontier justice.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Cowboys (novel)
Target entity description: The Cowboys (novel) is a Western story that follows a group of schoolboys hired as cattle drivers after adult cowhands leave for a gold rush, exploring themes of coming-of-age, responsibility, and frontier justice.
  • A. King of the Cowboys
    King of the Cowboys is the famous nickname of Roy Rogers, the iconic American singing cowboy star of mid-20th-century Western films, radio, and television.
  • B. Lonesome Dove
    Lonesome Dove is a critically acclaimed Western television miniseries, based on Larry McMurtry’s novel, that follows two retired Texas Rangers on an epic cattle drive from Texas to Montana.
  • C. The Lone Star
    The Lone Star is a popular nickname for the national flag of Chile, highlighting its single prominent white star on a blue field.
  • D. the Cowboy
    The Cowboy is a rugged, archetypal Western figure whose stoic demeanor and frontier values contrast sharply with the tense, claustrophobic setting and psychological drama of Stephen Crane’s story "The Blue Hotel."
  • E. Pro Texana
    Pro Texana is a component or section of the journal *Pro Ecclesia, Pro Texana*, likely focusing on issues related to the state of Texas.
  • 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_69bd440f71348190b99938e59fb7f9a1 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6e07ca10819083f80f12374544b1 completed March 20, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be681a3d7881908120dc642af3f58a completed March 21, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be6892c02481908dc64c7e84aac3b2 completed March 21, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be695116788190903fbd5e375bd31d completed March 21, 2026, 9:48 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:28 p.m.