Triple

T9987839
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject October Sky E196813 entity
Predicate settingPlace P1957 FINISHED
Object Coalwood, West Virginia
Coalwood, West Virginia is a small former coal-mining town best known as the real-life hometown of NASA engineer and author Homer Hickam, depicted in his memoir and the film "October Sky."
 E833081 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: Coalwood, West Virginia | Statement: [October Sky, settingPlace, Coalwood, West Virginia]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Coalwood, West Virginia
Context triple: [October Sky, settingPlace, Coalwood, West Virginia]
  • A. Coal City, West Virginia
    Coal City, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community and coal-mining town located in southern West Virginia.
  • B. Stonewood, West Virginia
    Stonewood, West Virginia, is a small residential city in north-central West Virginia that functions largely as a suburb of nearby Clarksburg.
  • C. Masontown, West Virginia
    Masontown, West Virginia is a small incorporated town located in Preston County in the north-central part of the state.
  • D. Gap Mills, West Virginia
    Gap Mills, West Virginia is a small unincorporated rural community located in Monroe County in the southeastern part of the state.
  • E. Flatwoods, West Virginia
    Flatwoods, West Virginia is a small town in Braxton County best known for the 1952 “Flatwoods Monster” UFO incident and its location near major highways in central Appalachia.
  • 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: Coalwood, West Virginia
Triple: [October Sky, settingPlace, Coalwood, West Virginia]
Generated description
Coalwood, West Virginia is a small former coal-mining town best known as the real-life hometown of NASA engineer and author Homer Hickam, depicted in his memoir and the film "October Sky."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Coalwood, West Virginia
Target entity description: Coalwood, West Virginia is a small former coal-mining town best known as the real-life hometown of NASA engineer and author Homer Hickam, depicted in his memoir and the film "October Sky."
  • A. Coal City, West Virginia
    Coal City, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community and coal-mining town located in southern West Virginia.
  • B. Stonewood, West Virginia
    Stonewood, West Virginia, is a small residential city in north-central West Virginia that functions largely as a suburb of nearby Clarksburg.
  • C. Masontown, West Virginia
    Masontown, West Virginia is a small incorporated town located in Preston County in the north-central part of the state.
  • D. Gap Mills, West Virginia
    Gap Mills, West Virginia is a small unincorporated rural community located in Monroe County in the southeastern part of the state.
  • E. Flatwoods, West Virginia
    Flatwoods, West Virginia is a small town in Braxton County best known for the 1952 “Flatwoods Monster” UFO incident and its location near major highways in central Appalachia.
  • 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_69ca82f1678c819093d06320a05f16a4 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdc79e10408190bcb4e55b6a0df79c completed April 2, 2026, 1:34 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d25810584c81908382cf6edd700530 completed April 5, 2026, 12:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d258b875cc8190ae8b122f35aa5566 completed April 5, 2026, 12:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2592b1f9c8190a9db928b9527e27b completed April 5, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:50 p.m.