Triple

T14507171
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brian Slade E340292 entity
Predicate stagePersonaOf P70717 FINISHED
Object Maxwell Demon
Maxwell Demon is the flamboyant, glam-rock alter ego adopted by the fictional musician Brian Slade in the film "Velvet Goldmine."
E1102287 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: Maxwell Demon | Statement: [Brian Slade, stagePersonaOf, Maxwell Demon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maxwell Demon
Context triple: [Brian Slade, stagePersonaOf, Maxwell Demon]
  • A. Maxwell’s Demon
    Maxwell’s Demon is a famous thought experiment in thermodynamics that imagines an intelligent being seemingly able to violate the second law of thermodynamics by sorting fast and slow gas molecules without expending energy.
  • B. Maxwell's demon thought experiment
    Maxwell's demon thought experiment is a famous conceptual scenario in thermodynamics that imagines an intelligent being seemingly violating the second law by sorting fast and slow gas molecules without expending energy.
  • C. Laplace’s demon
    Laplace’s demon is a hypothetical intellect in classical determinism that, knowing all forces and positions of particles at one time, could predict the entire future and reconstruct the entire past of the universe.
  • D. Homunculus
    Homunculus is an artificial, alchemically created being of pure spirit in Goethe’s "Faust, Part Two," symbolizing the quest for idealized existence and intellectual creation.
  • 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: Maxwell Demon
Triple: [Brian Slade, stagePersonaOf, Maxwell Demon]
Generated description
Maxwell Demon is the flamboyant, glam-rock alter ego adopted by the fictional musician Brian Slade in the film "Velvet Goldmine."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maxwell Demon
Target entity description: Maxwell Demon is the flamboyant, glam-rock alter ego adopted by the fictional musician Brian Slade in the film "Velvet Goldmine."
  • A. Maxwell’s Demon
    Maxwell’s Demon is a famous thought experiment in thermodynamics that imagines an intelligent being seemingly able to violate the second law of thermodynamics by sorting fast and slow gas molecules without expending energy.
  • B. Maxwell's demon thought experiment
    Maxwell's demon thought experiment is a famous conceptual scenario in thermodynamics that imagines an intelligent being seemingly violating the second law by sorting fast and slow gas molecules without expending energy.
  • C. Laplace’s demon
    Laplace’s demon is a hypothetical intellect in classical determinism that, knowing all forces and positions of particles at one time, could predict the entire future and reconstruct the entire past of the universe.
  • D. Homunculus
    Homunculus is an artificial, alchemically created being of pure spirit in Goethe’s "Faust, Part Two," symbolizing the quest for idealized existence and intellectual creation.
  • 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_69d822d9c0408190b9a2b3643e58bb4d completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de94e40e44819084f323f8f9982b75 completed April 14, 2026, 7:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd6da07ff481909fb2463b0ea92849 completed May 8, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd6eca4ff48190b7c16d92234cb43c completed May 8, 2026, 5:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd6f38ea788190a957419ca1971b15 completed May 8, 2026, 5:06 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:21 a.m.