Triple

T18334153
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject works of Robert E. Howard E439224 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The People of the Black Circle
The People of the Black Circle is a classic Conan the Barbarian novella by Robert E. Howard that blends sword-and-sorcery adventure with dark magic and political intrigue in the Hyborian Age.
E1318319 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 People of the Black Circle | Statement: [works of Robert E. Howard, notableWork, The People of the Black Circle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The People of the Black Circle
Context triple: [works of Robert E. Howard, notableWork, The People of the Black Circle]
  • A. The Crimson Circle
    The Crimson Circle is a 1922 crime novel by Edgar Wallace centered on a secret extortion ring that blackmails wealthy victims under threat of death.
  • B. The Crooked Circle
    The Crooked Circle is a 1957 American crime film featuring Steven Ritch in a prominent role.
  • C. The Black Curtain
    The Black Curtain is a 1941 psychological suspense novel by Cornell Woolrich about an amnesiac man who discovers he may have committed a crime during his forgotten past.
  • D. Circles of Deceit
    Circles of Deceit is a British television drama series centered on an ex-intelligence agent drawn into complex and morally ambiguous espionage assignments.
  • E. The Quintet of the Unseen
    The Quintet of the Unseen is a mysterious subgroup within the Passions, likely representing five hidden or intangible emotional forces that shape the work’s overarching themes.
  • 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 People of the Black Circle
Triple: [works of Robert E. Howard, notableWork, The People of the Black Circle]
Generated description
The People of the Black Circle is a classic Conan the Barbarian novella by Robert E. Howard that blends sword-and-sorcery adventure with dark magic and political intrigue in the Hyborian Age.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The People of the Black Circle
Target entity description: The People of the Black Circle is a classic Conan the Barbarian novella by Robert E. Howard that blends sword-and-sorcery adventure with dark magic and political intrigue in the Hyborian Age.
  • A. The Crimson Circle
    The Crimson Circle is a 1922 crime novel by Edgar Wallace centered on a secret extortion ring that blackmails wealthy victims under threat of death.
  • B. The Crooked Circle
    The Crooked Circle is a 1957 American crime film featuring Steven Ritch in a prominent role.
  • C. The Black Curtain
    The Black Curtain is a 1941 psychological suspense novel by Cornell Woolrich about an amnesiac man who discovers he may have committed a crime during his forgotten past.
  • D. Circles of Deceit
    Circles of Deceit is a British television drama series centered on an ex-intelligence agent drawn into complex and morally ambiguous espionage assignments.
  • E. The Quintet of the Unseen
    The Quintet of the Unseen is a mysterious subgroup within the Passions, likely representing five hidden or intangible emotional forces that shape the work’s overarching themes.
  • 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_69d8b9175fec8190af865699b4e64d8c completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e50ecbc76c8190a80c0c8c8bce1cbd completed April 19, 2026, 5:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03c4d085748190bfd9a7e94f1344a5 completed May 13, 2026, 12:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03c570ed348190a7e19eed29b06909 completed May 13, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03c5ec00a88190a93c3be5dd3bc6ee completed May 13, 2026, 12:29 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:36 a.m.