Triple

T1227995
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject E. M. Forster E26369 entity
Predicate wrote P2831 FINISHED
Object The Machine Stops
The Machine Stops is a 1909 dystopian science fiction short story depicting a future society utterly dependent on an all-controlling technological system and the consequences when it fails.
E140380 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 Machine Stops | Statement: [E. M. Forster, wrote, The Machine Stops]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Machine Stops
Context triple: [E. M. Forster, wrote, The Machine Stops]
  • A. The Machine of the World
    The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
  • B. The City and the Stars
    The City and the Stars is a classic science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of immortality, memory, and the cyclical nature of civilization in a far-future utopian city.
  • C. Brave New World
    Brave New World is a classic dystopian novel that portrays a technologically advanced but dehumanized future society obsessed with control, consumerism, and engineered happiness.
  • D. The War of the Worlds
    The War of the Worlds is a classic science fiction novel depicting a devastating Martian invasion of Earth and humanity’s struggle to survive.
  • E. The Machine
    The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
  • 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 Machine Stops
Triple: [E. M. Forster, wrote, The Machine Stops]
Generated description
The Machine Stops is a 1909 dystopian science fiction short story depicting a future society utterly dependent on an all-controlling technological system and the consequences when it fails.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Machine Stops
Target entity description: The Machine Stops is a 1909 dystopian science fiction short story depicting a future society utterly dependent on an all-controlling technological system and the consequences when it fails.
  • A. The Machine of the World
    The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
  • B. The City and the Stars
    The City and the Stars is a classic science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of immortality, memory, and the cyclical nature of civilization in a far-future utopian city.
  • C. Brave New World
    Brave New World is a classic dystopian novel that portrays a technologically advanced but dehumanized future society obsessed with control, consumerism, and engineered happiness.
  • D. The War of the Worlds
    The War of the Worlds is a classic science fiction novel depicting a devastating Martian invasion of Earth and humanity’s struggle to survive.
  • E. The Machine
    The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
  • 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_69a49484688c8190a1bf285eb396a8b6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4be3c5d4c819087f9e9e37204c3be completed March 1, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac8a1242048190ba6ffcaacc4ca5d5 completed March 7, 2026, 8:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac8a9d03c8819097cea548a31d866d completed March 7, 2026, 8:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac8b041e188190ac9e1ce2c2728c94 completed March 7, 2026, 8:31 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.