Triple

T10417117
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry Beam Piper E245546 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Paratime series
The Paratime series is a collection of science fiction stories by H. Beam Piper that explore a civilization capable of traveling and policing across multiple parallel timelines.
E862310 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: Paratime series | Statement: [Henry Beam Piper, notableWork, Paratime series]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paratime series
Context triple: [Henry Beam Piper, notableWork, Paratime series]
  • A. Dimensions in Time
    Dimensions in Time is a 1993 charity Doctor Who special that brought together multiple Doctors and companions in a crossover with the British soap opera EastEnders.
  • B. Timelike Infinity
    Timelike Infinity is a hard science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter that explores time travel, cosmic engineering, and far-future human evolution within his Xeelee Sequence universe.
  • C. Nueva refutación del tiempo
    "Nueva refutación del tiempo" is an influential philosophical essay by Jorge Luis Borges that questions the reality of time through paradoxes, metaphysical argument, and literary references.
  • D. The Tenseless Theory of Time
    The Tenseless Theory of Time is a philosophical view in the metaphysics of time which holds that all points in time—past, present, and future—are equally real, denying any objective flow or passage of time.
  • E. Time and the Other
    Time and the Other is a philosophical work by Emmanuel Levinas that explores the nature of time, subjectivity, and ethical relations with the Other.
  • 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: Paratime series
Triple: [Henry Beam Piper, notableWork, Paratime series]
Generated description
The Paratime series is a collection of science fiction stories by H. Beam Piper that explore a civilization capable of traveling and policing across multiple parallel timelines.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paratime series
Target entity description: The Paratime series is a collection of science fiction stories by H. Beam Piper that explore a civilization capable of traveling and policing across multiple parallel timelines.
  • A. Dimensions in Time
    Dimensions in Time is a 1993 charity Doctor Who special that brought together multiple Doctors and companions in a crossover with the British soap opera EastEnders.
  • B. Timelike Infinity
    Timelike Infinity is a hard science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter that explores time travel, cosmic engineering, and far-future human evolution within his Xeelee Sequence universe.
  • C. Nueva refutación del tiempo
    "Nueva refutación del tiempo" is an influential philosophical essay by Jorge Luis Borges that questions the reality of time through paradoxes, metaphysical argument, and literary references.
  • D. The Tenseless Theory of Time
    The Tenseless Theory of Time is a philosophical view in the metaphysics of time which holds that all points in time—past, present, and future—are equally real, denying any objective flow or passage of time.
  • E. Time and the Other
    Time and the Other is a philosophical work by Emmanuel Levinas that explores the nature of time, subjectivity, and ethical relations with the Other.
  • 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_69d381be340c8190b05998703d42d224 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4ea1194e08190a18c3b3002147493 completed April 7, 2026, 11:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d7fc0dd480819082edcc49a245ad4f completed April 9, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d822d6a0188190a7ee6de5aab50486 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d859fd8f0c8190b0fec880e1180e50 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:11 p.m.