Triple

T13561294
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Fowles E323914 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Ebony Tower
The Ebony Tower is a collection of novellas by British author John Fowles that explores themes of art, morality, and human relationships through layered, metafictional storytelling.
E1046791 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 Ebony Tower | Statement: [John Fowles, notableWork, The Ebony Tower]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Ebony Tower
Context triple: [John Fowles, notableWork, The Ebony Tower]
  • A. The Secret of the Tower
    The Secret of the Tower is a lesser-known adventure novel by British author Anthony Hope, best known for his classic romance The Prisoner of Zenda.
  • B. The Ebony Horse
    The Ebony Horse is a fantastical tale from The Arabian Nights about a magical mechanical steed that can fly its rider to distant lands, blending romance, adventure, and wonder.
  • C. the Shadow Tower
    The Shadow Tower is one of the three primary fortresses of the Night's Watch in the world of "A Song of Ice and Fire," guarding the far western end of the Wall.
  • D. The Winding Stair
    The Winding Stair is a poem by W. B. Yeats that reflects on aging, spiritual struggle, and the cyclical nature of life through the symbol of a spiraling staircase.
  • E. The Tower of Light
    The Tower of Light is a monument whose name, derived from the Irish "An Túr Solais," evokes imagery of illumination, guidance, and cultural symbolism.
  • 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 Ebony Tower
Triple: [John Fowles, notableWork, The Ebony Tower]
Generated description
The Ebony Tower is a collection of novellas by British author John Fowles that explores themes of art, morality, and human relationships through layered, metafictional storytelling.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Ebony Tower
Target entity description: The Ebony Tower is a collection of novellas by British author John Fowles that explores themes of art, morality, and human relationships through layered, metafictional storytelling.
  • A. The Secret of the Tower
    The Secret of the Tower is a lesser-known adventure novel by British author Anthony Hope, best known for his classic romance The Prisoner of Zenda.
  • B. The Ebony Horse
    The Ebony Horse is a fantastical tale from The Arabian Nights about a magical mechanical steed that can fly its rider to distant lands, blending romance, adventure, and wonder.
  • C. the Shadow Tower
    The Shadow Tower is one of the three primary fortresses of the Night's Watch in the world of "A Song of Ice and Fire," guarding the far western end of the Wall.
  • D. The Winding Stair
    The Winding Stair is a poem by W. B. Yeats that reflects on aging, spiritual struggle, and the cyclical nature of life through the symbol of a spiraling staircase.
  • E. The Tower of Light
    The Tower of Light is a monument whose name, derived from the Irish "An Túr Solais," evokes imagery of illumination, guidance, and cultural symbolism.
  • 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_69d8076830b48190910a902bae5888e2 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaff5219081909cf60423e79d278f completed April 12, 2026, 2:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f75dad601481908de5f266f01f3f49 completed May 3, 2026, 2:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f75f563cfc81909cde4c403ac10a58 completed May 3, 2026, 2:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f75fcbf9548190abd74bf4f4ae2e11 completed May 3, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:47 p.m.