Triple

T16035386
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Wizard of Earthsea E388957 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object The Shadow
The Shadow is a dark, formless embodiment of fear and the destructive side of human nature that the young wizard Ged must confront and reconcile with in Ursula K. Le Guin’s fantasy novel "A Wizard of Earthsea."
E1190606 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 Shadow | Statement: [A Wizard of Earthsea, character, The Shadow]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Shadow
Context triple: [A Wizard of Earthsea, character, The Shadow]
  • A. The Shadow
    The Shadow is a classic American radio drama series featuring a mysterious crime-fighting vigilante with the power to cloud men's minds, making him invisible to his enemies.
  • B. The Shadow
    The Shadow is a 1994 neo-noir superhero film, based on the classic pulp character, that blends crime, mystery, and supernatural elements in a stylized 1930s New York setting.
  • C. The White Shadow
    The White Shadow is an American television drama series from the late 1970s that follows a white former professional basketball player who becomes the coach of a predominantly Black high school team in inner-city Los Angeles.
  • D. The Red Shadow
    The Red Shadow is the masked, romantic desert bandit alter ego of a French officer in the 1929 musical film "The Desert Song."
  • E. Der Schattenmann
    Der Schattenmann is a German television miniseries that continues the story begun in "Der große Bellheim," focusing on intrigue and power struggles in the world of business and politics.
  • 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 Shadow
Triple: [A Wizard of Earthsea, character, The Shadow]
Generated description
The Shadow is a dark, formless embodiment of fear and the destructive side of human nature that the young wizard Ged must confront and reconcile with in Ursula K. Le Guin’s fantasy novel "A Wizard of Earthsea."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Shadow
Target entity description: The Shadow is a dark, formless embodiment of fear and the destructive side of human nature that the young wizard Ged must confront and reconcile with in Ursula K. Le Guin’s fantasy novel "A Wizard of Earthsea."
  • A. The Shadow
    The Shadow is a classic American radio drama series featuring a mysterious crime-fighting vigilante with the power to cloud men's minds, making him invisible to his enemies.
  • B. The Shadow
    The Shadow is a 1994 neo-noir superhero film, based on the classic pulp character, that blends crime, mystery, and supernatural elements in a stylized 1930s New York setting.
  • C. The White Shadow
    The White Shadow is an American television drama series from the late 1970s that follows a white former professional basketball player who becomes the coach of a predominantly Black high school team in inner-city Los Angeles.
  • D. The Red Shadow
    The Red Shadow is the masked, romantic desert bandit alter ego of a French officer in the 1929 musical film "The Desert Song."
  • E. Der Schattenmann
    Der Schattenmann is a German television miniseries that continues the story begun in "Der große Bellheim," focusing on intrigue and power struggles in the world of business and politics.
  • 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_69d86dada3808190825d5f80d72fbe88 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e1833b84608190887dafda5d081dc0 completed April 17, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffdbd3a1248190ad055892cebde5f0 completed May 10, 2026, 1:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffdc5fd30c8190aaf66482f24285b4 completed May 10, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffdd0392e08190af42a0cdc5dd4c1f completed May 10, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:56 a.m.