Triple

T10159460
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kurt Vonnegut E233850 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Cat's Cradle
Cat's Cradle is a satirical science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut that explores themes of religion, science, and the potential for human self-destruction through the invention of a world-ending substance called ice-nine.
E845163 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: Cat's Cradle | Statement: [Kurt Vonnegut, notableWork, Cat's Cradle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cat's Cradle
Context triple: [Kurt Vonnegut, notableWork, Cat's Cradle]
  • A. The Lathe of Heaven
    The Lathe of Heaven is a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin that explores the power of dreams to alter reality and the ethical dilemmas that arise from such control.
  • B. A Canticle for Leibowitz
    A Canticle for Leibowitz is a classic post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Walter M. Miller Jr. that explores the cyclical nature of history, faith, and knowledge through a monastic order preserving remnants of human civilization.
  • C. Slaughterhouse-Five
    Slaughterhouse-Five is Kurt Vonnegut’s darkly comic, anti-war science fiction novel that follows Billy Pilgrim’s disjointed experiences of World War II and time travel, widely regarded as a classic of 20th-century American literature.
  • D. The Library of Babel
    The Library of Babel is a famous short story by Jorge Luis Borges that imagines an infinite, labyrinthine library containing every possible book, exploring themes of infinity, meaning, and the limits of knowledge.
  • E. A Deepness in the Sky
    A Deepness in the Sky is a Hugo Award–winning science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge that explores interstellar politics, human enhancement, and first contact with an alien civilization.
  • 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: Cat's Cradle
Triple: [Kurt Vonnegut, notableWork, Cat's Cradle]
Generated description
Cat's Cradle is a satirical science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut that explores themes of religion, science, and the potential for human self-destruction through the invention of a world-ending substance called ice-nine.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cat's Cradle
Target entity description: Cat's Cradle is a satirical science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut that explores themes of religion, science, and the potential for human self-destruction through the invention of a world-ending substance called ice-nine.
  • A. The Lathe of Heaven
    The Lathe of Heaven is a science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin that explores the power of dreams to alter reality and the ethical dilemmas that arise from such control.
  • B. A Canticle for Leibowitz
    A Canticle for Leibowitz is a classic post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Walter M. Miller Jr. that explores the cyclical nature of history, faith, and knowledge through a monastic order preserving remnants of human civilization.
  • C. Slaughterhouse-Five
    Slaughterhouse-Five is Kurt Vonnegut’s darkly comic, anti-war science fiction novel that follows Billy Pilgrim’s disjointed experiences of World War II and time travel, widely regarded as a classic of 20th-century American literature.
  • D. The Library of Babel
    The Library of Babel is a famous short story by Jorge Luis Borges that imagines an infinite, labyrinthine library containing every possible book, exploring themes of infinity, meaning, and the limits of knowledge.
  • E. A Deepness in the Sky
    A Deepness in the Sky is a Hugo Award–winning science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge that explores interstellar politics, human enhancement, and first contact with an alien civilization.
  • 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_69ca848e80748190b91d1e04d35512c7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdec56d944819081bc6ea36c905ba2 completed April 2, 2026, 4:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d300b7b3108190a8e7581193c322be completed April 6, 2026, 12:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d302537a548190b211727dd124cba6 completed April 6, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d3033245448190bcc802b7dbd274fc completed April 6, 2026, 12:49 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:09 p.m.