Triple

T12091160
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Octavia E. Butler E287943 entity
Predicate series P1761 FINISHED
Object Patternist series
The Patternist series is a sequence of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that explores themes of power, telepathy, slavery, and human evolution across a far-reaching future history.
E966009 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: Patternist series | Statement: [Octavia E. Butler, series, Patternist series]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patternist series
Context triple: [Octavia E. Butler, series, Patternist series]
  • A. The Briar Rose series
    The Briar Rose series is a celebrated set of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Edward Burne-Jones that reinterprets the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale with richly detailed, dreamlike imagery.
  • B. Crystal Singer series
    The Crystal Singer series is a science fiction book trilogy by Anne McCaffrey that follows a gifted woman who joins an elite, perilous guild of crystal-harvesting singers on the planet Ballybran.
  • C. Spellmonger series
    The Spellmonger series is a long-running fantasy saga by Terry Mancour that follows mage Minalan and his allies through war, politics, and magic in a richly detailed medieval world.
  • D. The Lineage of Grace series
    The Lineage of Grace series is a collection of Christian historical novellas by Francine Rivers that retell the stories of five women in the Bible with imaginative, faith-centered detail.
  • E. Scholomance trilogy
    The Scholomance trilogy is a contemporary fantasy book series by Naomi Novik that follows magically gifted students struggling to survive a deadly, sentient school.
  • 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: Patternist series
Triple: [Octavia E. Butler, series, Patternist series]
Generated description
The Patternist series is a sequence of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that explores themes of power, telepathy, slavery, and human evolution across a far-reaching future history.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Patternist series
Target entity description: The Patternist series is a sequence of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that explores themes of power, telepathy, slavery, and human evolution across a far-reaching future history.
  • A. The Briar Rose series
    The Briar Rose series is a celebrated set of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Edward Burne-Jones that reinterprets the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale with richly detailed, dreamlike imagery.
  • B. Crystal Singer series
    The Crystal Singer series is a science fiction book trilogy by Anne McCaffrey that follows a gifted woman who joins an elite, perilous guild of crystal-harvesting singers on the planet Ballybran.
  • C. Spellmonger series
    The Spellmonger series is a long-running fantasy saga by Terry Mancour that follows mage Minalan and his allies through war, politics, and magic in a richly detailed medieval world.
  • D. The Lineage of Grace series
    The Lineage of Grace series is a collection of Christian historical novellas by Francine Rivers that retell the stories of five women in the Bible with imaginative, faith-centered detail.
  • E. Scholomance trilogy
    The Scholomance trilogy is a contemporary fantasy book series by Naomi Novik that follows magically gifted students struggling to survive a deadly, sentient school.
  • 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_69f601ef0a9c8190ac922562a8856def completed May 2, 2026, 1:53 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:48 p.m.