Triple

T13796519
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Mercenary E331530 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Columba
Columba is a character from the science fiction novel "The Mercenary" by Jerry Pournelle, known for her role within its military-focused narrative.
E1062994 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: Columba | Statement: [The Mercenary, featuresCharacter, Columba]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Columba
Context triple: [The Mercenary, featuresCharacter, Columba]
  • A. Columba
    Columba was a 6th-century Irish monk and missionary whose work, especially from the monastery he founded on Iona, was pivotal in spreading Christianity throughout parts of Scotland and the wider British Isles.
  • B. Columba
    Columba is a small, faint southern constellation representing a dove, located near Canis Major in the night sky.
  • C. Alcedo
    Alcedo is a genus of small, brightly colored river kingfishers known for their vivid blue and orange plumage and fish-hunting dives along freshwater habitats.
  • D. Gallus
    Gallus was a 4th-century Roman nobleman and Caesar of the Constantinian dynasty, known for his turbulent rule in the Eastern Roman Empire and eventual execution under Emperor Constantius II.
  • E. Gallus
    Gallus was a prominent Roman poet and political figure of the Augustan era, best known for pioneering Latin love elegy and influencing later Augustan literature.
  • 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: Columba
Triple: [The Mercenary, featuresCharacter, Columba]
Generated description
Columba is a character from the science fiction novel "The Mercenary" by Jerry Pournelle, known for her role within its military-focused narrative.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Columba
Target entity description: Columba is a character from the science fiction novel "The Mercenary" by Jerry Pournelle, known for her role within its military-focused narrative.
  • A. Columba
    Columba was a 6th-century Irish monk and missionary whose work, especially from the monastery he founded on Iona, was pivotal in spreading Christianity throughout parts of Scotland and the wider British Isles.
  • B. Columba
    Columba is a small, faint southern constellation representing a dove, located near Canis Major in the night sky.
  • C. Alcedo
    Alcedo is a genus of small, brightly colored river kingfishers known for their vivid blue and orange plumage and fish-hunting dives along freshwater habitats.
  • D. Gallus
    Gallus was a 4th-century Roman nobleman and Caesar of the Constantinian dynasty, known for his turbulent rule in the Eastern Roman Empire and eventual execution under Emperor Constantius II.
  • E. Gallus
    Gallus was a prominent Roman poet and political figure of the Augustan era, best known for pioneering Latin love elegy and influencing later Augustan literature.
  • 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_69d81c58feb08190a77bca8bf7d6d20f completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de025be1f08190aac525d72d7dc0c3 completed April 14, 2026, 9:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7b08508688190b7e8c33e6b65e25d completed May 3, 2026, 8:31 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7b48bf704819098bfb70def28a0d1 completed May 3, 2026, 8:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7b5c9e284819094e7af030e1e9034 completed May 3, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:11 p.m.