Triple

T15500906
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joe Abercrombie E378948 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Blade Itself
The Blade Itself is a grimdark fantasy novel by Joe Abercrombie that launches the First Law trilogy, known for its morally ambiguous characters, dark humor, and subversion of genre tropes.
E1160901 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 Blade Itself | Statement: [Joe Abercrombie, notableWork, The Blade Itself]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Blade Itself
Context triple: [Joe Abercrombie, notableWork, The Blade Itself]
  • A. Edge of the Blade
    "Edge of the Blade" is a song by the American rock band Journey, known for its hard-driving guitar riffs and powerful vocals, featured on their 1983 album "Frontiers."
  • B. The Silver Blade
    The Silver Blade is a young adult historical fantasy novel by Sally Gardner set during the French Revolution, blending romance, adventure, and elements of the supernatural.
  • C. The Scarlet Blade
    The Scarlet Blade is a 1963 British historical adventure film set during the English Civil War, known for its swashbuckling action and cast including Jennifer Jayne and Oliver Reed.
  • D. The Blinding Knife
    The Blinding Knife is the second novel in Brent Weeks’ Lightbringer fantasy series, continuing the story of a color-based magic system and complex political and religious conflicts.
  • E. Dragonblade
    Dragonblade is Genji's iconic energy-infused katana in Overwatch, unleashed as his ultimate ability to deliver swift, devastating melee strikes.
  • 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 Blade Itself
Triple: [Joe Abercrombie, notableWork, The Blade Itself]
Generated description
The Blade Itself is a grimdark fantasy novel by Joe Abercrombie that launches the First Law trilogy, known for its morally ambiguous characters, dark humor, and subversion of genre tropes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Blade Itself
Target entity description: The Blade Itself is a grimdark fantasy novel by Joe Abercrombie that launches the First Law trilogy, known for its morally ambiguous characters, dark humor, and subversion of genre tropes.
  • A. Edge of the Blade
    "Edge of the Blade" is a song by the American rock band Journey, known for its hard-driving guitar riffs and powerful vocals, featured on their 1983 album "Frontiers."
  • B. The Silver Blade
    The Silver Blade is a young adult historical fantasy novel by Sally Gardner set during the French Revolution, blending romance, adventure, and elements of the supernatural.
  • C. The Scarlet Blade
    The Scarlet Blade is a 1963 British historical adventure film set during the English Civil War, known for its swashbuckling action and cast including Jennifer Jayne and Oliver Reed.
  • D. The Blinding Knife
    The Blinding Knife is the second novel in Brent Weeks’ Lightbringer fantasy series, continuing the story of a color-based magic system and complex political and religious conflicts.
  • E. Dragonblade
    Dragonblade is Genji's iconic energy-infused katana in Overwatch, unleashed as his ultimate ability to deliver swift, devastating melee strikes.
  • 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_69d85cd53a7c819080f5b9042c4c199e completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e03fcb4e8c81908e4ab463e3ae252b completed April 16, 2026, 1:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff3669f908819087162b1b8a4e4320 completed May 9, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff375856448190a61979dfff751f06 completed May 9, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff382f1bbc8190810d0d825430f9ea completed May 9, 2026, 1:35 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:54 a.m.