Triple

T12091151
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Octavia E. Butler E287943 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Patternmaster
Patternmaster is a science fiction novel by Octavia E. Butler that explores a future society ruled by powerful telepaths and forms part of her influential Patternist series.
 E965306 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: Patternmaster | Statement: [Octavia E. Butler, notableWork, Patternmaster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Patternmaster
Context triple: [Octavia E. Butler, notableWork, Patternmaster]
  • A. Mother Night
    Mother Night is a 1996 film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, following an American playwright turned Nazi propagandist as he grapples with guilt, identity, and moral ambiguity.
  • B. Schismatrix
    Schismatrix is a seminal 1985 science fiction novel by Bruce Sterling that explores posthuman evolution, political intrigue, and radical technological change in a far-future solar system.
  • C. Trypticon Station
    Trypticon Station is a massive Decepticon space station and battleground featured in the video game Transformers: War for Cybertron.
  • D. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
    The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is a 1965 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick that explores altered reality, drug-induced religious experiences, and questions of identity and divinity in a dystopian future.
  • E. Ubik
    Ubik is a 1969 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick that explores reality, perception, and corporate intrigue in a surreal, shifting future world.
  • 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: Patternmaster
Triple: [Octavia E. Butler, notableWork, Patternmaster]
Generated description
Patternmaster is a science fiction novel by Octavia E. Butler that explores a future society ruled by powerful telepaths and forms part of her influential Patternist series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Patternmaster
Target entity description: Patternmaster is a science fiction novel by Octavia E. Butler that explores a future society ruled by powerful telepaths and forms part of her influential Patternist series.
  • A. Mother Night
    Mother Night is a 1996 film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, following an American playwright turned Nazi propagandist as he grapples with guilt, identity, and moral ambiguity.
  • B. Schismatrix
    Schismatrix is a seminal 1985 science fiction novel by Bruce Sterling that explores posthuman evolution, political intrigue, and radical technological change in a far-future solar system.
  • C. Trypticon Station
    Trypticon Station is a massive Decepticon space station and battleground featured in the video game Transformers: War for Cybertron.
  • D. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
    The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is a 1965 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick that explores altered reality, drug-induced religious experiences, and questions of identity and divinity in a dystopian future.
  • E. Ubik
    Ubik is a 1969 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick that explores reality, perception, and corporate intrigue in a surreal, shifting future world.
  • 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_69d6ab4964708190850585628b287b0c completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9151797988190b0d007ea806bcf02 completed April 10, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f5f66d1b44819091f638d2a621ecde completed May 2, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f600b51f488190a85a8f10f190b3c0 completed May 2, 2026, 1:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f601ebaa448190ba59485d9d7d68d1 completed May 2, 2026, 1:53 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:48 p.m.