Triple

T5286696
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject They Live by Night E119635 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object Thieves Like Us
Thieves Like Us is a 1937 crime novel by Edward Anderson about two young lovers on the run with a gang of bank robbers in Depression-era America.
E509041 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: Thieves Like Us | Statement: [They Live by Night, basedOn, Thieves Like Us]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thieves Like Us
Context triple: [They Live by Night, basedOn, Thieves Like Us]
  • A. Every Which Way but Loose
    Every Which Way but Loose is a 1978 American action-comedy film starring Clint Eastwood as a trucker and bare-knuckle brawler who travels with his pet orangutan.
  • B. Let the Bad Times Roll
    Let the Bad Times Roll is a studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring, known for its blend of melodic punk, alternative rock, and socially charged lyrics.
  • C. Chain of Fools
    "Chain of Fools" is a classic 1967 soul song performed by Aretha Franklin, renowned for its powerful vocals, driving groove, and enduring influence in R&B music.
  • D. One Way Out
    One Way Out is a celebrated live album by the Allman Brothers Band that captures their improvisational Southern rock sound in concert.
  • E. The Thrill Is Gone
    "The Thrill Is Gone" is a classic blues song popularized by B.B. King that became one of his signature hits and a defining anthem of modern electric blues.
  • 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: Thieves Like Us
Triple: [They Live by Night, basedOn, Thieves Like Us]
Generated description
Thieves Like Us is a 1937 crime novel by Edward Anderson about two young lovers on the run with a gang of bank robbers in Depression-era America.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thieves Like Us
Target entity description: Thieves Like Us is a 1937 crime novel by Edward Anderson about two young lovers on the run with a gang of bank robbers in Depression-era America.
  • A. Every Which Way but Loose
    Every Which Way but Loose is a 1978 American action-comedy film starring Clint Eastwood as a trucker and bare-knuckle brawler who travels with his pet orangutan.
  • B. Let the Bad Times Roll
    Let the Bad Times Roll is a studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring, known for its blend of melodic punk, alternative rock, and socially charged lyrics.
  • C. Chain of Fools
    "Chain of Fools" is a classic 1967 soul song performed by Aretha Franklin, renowned for its powerful vocals, driving groove, and enduring influence in R&B music.
  • D. One Way Out
    One Way Out is a celebrated live album by the Allman Brothers Band that captures their improvisational Southern rock sound in concert.
  • E. The Thrill Is Gone
    "The Thrill Is Gone" is a classic blues song popularized by B.B. King that became one of his signature hits and a defining anthem of modern electric blues.
  • 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_69bd446de5648190b313a90bd96730d2 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd84d9a0788190a4a85a9cab07903f completed March 20, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf06e98e48819091c666cf7872a7f8 completed March 21, 2026, 9 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf0af33a088190a9302dfcfa632155 completed March 21, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf0b5143148190acf674627ff951ca completed March 21, 2026, 9:19 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:52 p.m.