Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject How the West Was Won E148541 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object Life magazine series "How the West Was Won"
The Life magazine series "How the West Was Won" is a historical photo-essay and narrative feature that chronicles the exploration, settlement, and mythologizing of the American West for a popular mid-20th-century readership.
E607213 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: Life magazine series "How the West Was Won" | Statement: [How the West Was Won, basedOn, Life magazine series "How the West Was Won"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life magazine series "How the West Was Won"
Context triple: [How the West Was Won, basedOn, Life magazine series "How the West Was Won"]
  • A. The Lamar Series in Western History
    The Lamar Series in Western History is a distinguished scholarly book series published by Yale University Press that explores key themes, figures, and transformations in the history of the American West.
  • B. Buffalo Bill's Wild West
    Buffalo Bill's Wild West was a late 19th- and early 20th-century traveling show that dramatized frontier life with staged battles, sharpshooting, and performances by cowboys and Native Americans, helping to popularize the mythic image of the American West.
  • C. The March of Time
    The March of Time was a pioneering American newsreel and radio documentary series known for its dramatized reenactments of current events and influential narrative style.
  • D. How the West Was Won
    How the West Was Won is a 1962 epic Western film that chronicles several generations of a pioneer family as they journey across and help shape the American frontier.
  • E. Life magazine
    Life magazine was a hugely influential American weekly publication best known for its pioneering photojournalism and vivid visual coverage of 20th-century events and culture.
  • 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: Life magazine series "How the West Was Won"
Triple: [How the West Was Won, basedOn, Life magazine series "How the West Was Won"]
Generated description
The Life magazine series "How the West Was Won" is a historical photo-essay and narrative feature that chronicles the exploration, settlement, and mythologizing of the American West for a popular mid-20th-century readership.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life magazine series "How the West Was Won"
Target entity description: The Life magazine series "How the West Was Won" is a historical photo-essay and narrative feature that chronicles the exploration, settlement, and mythologizing of the American West for a popular mid-20th-century readership.
  • A. The Lamar Series in Western History
    The Lamar Series in Western History is a distinguished scholarly book series published by Yale University Press that explores key themes, figures, and transformations in the history of the American West.
  • B. Buffalo Bill's Wild West
    Buffalo Bill's Wild West was a late 19th- and early 20th-century traveling show that dramatized frontier life with staged battles, sharpshooting, and performances by cowboys and Native Americans, helping to popularize the mythic image of the American West.
  • C. The March of Time
    The March of Time was a pioneering American newsreel and radio documentary series known for its dramatized reenactments of current events and influential narrative style.
  • D. How the West Was Won
    How the West Was Won is a 1962 epic Western film that chronicles several generations of a pioneer family as they journey across and help shape the American frontier.
  • E. Life magazine
    Life magazine was a hugely influential American weekly publication best known for its pioneering photojournalism and vivid visual coverage of 20th-century events and culture.
  • 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_69c687e7b8688190811ffee72e096468 completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6aeeffdf0819090af7bba918bef84 completed March 27, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6e43224dc81909dea493a5ee2726e completed March 27, 2026, 8:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6e4e9c344819099ad11c21c2e4a6e completed March 27, 2026, 8:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6e581a4f88190b1f64033a49d1bae completed March 27, 2026, 8:16 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:56 p.m.