Triple

T15039874
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Night Angel Trilogy E378571 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object The Way of Shadows
The Way of Shadows is a dark fantasy novel by Brent Weeks that follows a street urchin’s brutal training to become an assassin in a corrupt, war-torn city.
 E1133317 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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 Way of Shadows | Statement: [The Night Angel Trilogy, hasPart, The Way of Shadows]

Disambiguation candidates (2 decisions)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Way of Shadows
Context triple: [The Night Angel Trilogy, hasPart, The Way of Shadows]
  • A. The Shadow Lands
    The Shadow Lands is a mysterious, little-known region at the far eastern edge of the world in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" universe, rumored to be filled with dark magic, strange creatures, and ancient, sinister lore.
  • B. King of Shadows
    King of Shadows is a historical fantasy novel by Susan Cooper that follows a modern boy actor mysteriously transported to Shakespeare’s London to perform with the Bard himself.
  • C. Cleft of Shadow
    The Cleft of Shadow is a dark, cavernous district in Orgrimmar that serves as the hub for warlocks, shadowy traders, and other practitioners of forbidden magic in World of Warcraft.
  • D. The Shadowed Sun
    The Shadowed Sun is a fantasy novel by N. K. Jemisin that continues her Dreamblood duology with a richly imagined world, political intrigue, and explorations of power, faith, and healing.
  • E. The Age of Shadows
    The Age of Shadows is a 2016 South Korean period espionage thriller film set during the Japanese occupation, directed by Kim Jee-woon and starring Song Kang-ho and Gong Yoo.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Way of Shadows
Target entity description: The Way of Shadows is a dark fantasy novel by Brent Weeks that follows a street urchin’s brutal training to become an assassin in a corrupt, war-torn city.
  • A. The Shadow Lands
    The Shadow Lands is a mysterious, little-known region at the far eastern edge of the world in the "A Song of Ice and Fire" universe, rumored to be filled with dark magic, strange creatures, and ancient, sinister lore.
  • B. King of Shadows
    King of Shadows is a historical fantasy novel by Susan Cooper that follows a modern boy actor mysteriously transported to Shakespeare’s London to perform with the Bard himself.
  • C. Cleft of Shadow
    The Cleft of Shadow is a dark, cavernous district in Orgrimmar that serves as the hub for warlocks, shadowy traders, and other practitioners of forbidden magic in World of Warcraft.
  • D. The Shadowed Sun
    The Shadowed Sun is a fantasy novel by N. K. Jemisin that continues her Dreamblood duology with a richly imagined world, political intrigue, and explorations of power, faith, and healing.
  • E. The Age of Shadows
    The Age of Shadows is a 2016 South Korean period espionage thriller film set during the Japanese occupation, directed by Kim Jee-woon and starring Song Kang-ho and Gong Yoo.
  • F. None of above. chosen

How the object was described

The object's one-sentence description was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the object name and this triple as context.

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 Way of Shadows
Triple: [The Night Angel Trilogy, hasPart, The Way of Shadows]
Generated description
The Way of Shadows is a dark fantasy novel by Brent Weeks that follows a street urchin’s brutal training to become an assassin in a corrupt, war-torn city.

Provenance (5 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d85cd46b2c819090d054c27787f677 elicitation completed
NER batch_69ded82e79a481908ddb9609af8c4407 ner completed
NED1 batch_69fe9de1c3a48190a9b3959a95627175 ned_source_triple completed
NED2 batch_69fea0b87db881909607bcf0df5b0979 ned_description completed
NEDg batch_69fe9fdba3c48190b1d370f7c066801f nedg completed
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3 a.m.