Triple

T15039773
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Iain M. Banks E378569 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Hydrogen Sonata
The Hydrogen Sonata is a science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks set in his Culture universe, exploring themes of civilization-scale transformation, identity, and the ethics of advanced technology.
E1133286 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 Hydrogen Sonata | Statement: [Iain M. Banks, notableWork, The Hydrogen Sonata]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Hydrogen Sonata
Context triple: [Iain M. Banks, notableWork, The Hydrogen Sonata]
  • A. The Songs of Distant Earth
    The Songs of Distant Earth is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of interstellar travel, human colonization, and the emotional costs of leaving a dying Earth behind.
  • B. Anathem
    Anathem is a 2008 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that explores philosophy, mathematics, and parallel universes through the lives of cloistered scholars on an alien world.
  • C. The Dosadi Experiment
    The Dosadi Experiment is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert that explores themes of social engineering, oppression, and survival on a harsh, isolated planet.
  • D. 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.
  • E. The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream
    The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream is John Keats’s unfinished, more philosophically complex reworking of his earlier epic Hyperion, blending visionary dream narrative with reflections on suffering, imagination, and the role of the poet.
  • 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 Hydrogen Sonata
Triple: [Iain M. Banks, notableWork, The Hydrogen Sonata]
Generated description
The Hydrogen Sonata is a science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks set in his Culture universe, exploring themes of civilization-scale transformation, identity, and the ethics of advanced technology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Hydrogen Sonata
Target entity description: The Hydrogen Sonata is a science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks set in his Culture universe, exploring themes of civilization-scale transformation, identity, and the ethics of advanced technology.
  • A. The Songs of Distant Earth
    The Songs of Distant Earth is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of interstellar travel, human colonization, and the emotional costs of leaving a dying Earth behind.
  • B. Anathem
    Anathem is a 2008 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that explores philosophy, mathematics, and parallel universes through the lives of cloistered scholars on an alien world.
  • C. The Dosadi Experiment
    The Dosadi Experiment is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert that explores themes of social engineering, oppression, and survival on a harsh, isolated planet.
  • D. 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.
  • E. The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream
    The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream is John Keats’s unfinished, more philosophically complex reworking of his earlier epic Hyperion, blending visionary dream narrative with reflections on suffering, imagination, and the role of the poet.
  • 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_69d85cd46b2c819090d054c27787f677 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ded82e79a481908ddb9609af8c4407 completed April 15, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fe9de1c3a48190a9b3959a95627175 completed May 9, 2026, 2:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fe9fdba3c48190b1d370f7c066801f completed May 9, 2026, 2:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fea0b87db881909607bcf0df5b0979 completed May 9, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3 a.m.