Triple

T16321396
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ian Watson E396299 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Book of the River
The Book of the River is a science fiction novel by Ian Watson that blends cosmic-scale ideas with philosophical and psychological themes along a mysterious river journey.
E1207496 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 Book of the River | Statement: [Ian Watson, notableWork, The Book of the River]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Book of the River
Context triple: [Ian Watson, notableWork, The Book of the River]
  • A. Beyond the River
    Beyond the River is a historical-geographical term used in ancient Near Eastern sources to denote the region west of the Euphrates River, encompassing parts of Syria and Palestine.
  • B. The Endless River
    The Endless River is a 2014 ambient and instrumental studio album by Pink Floyd, built largely from unreleased Division Bell-era recordings and serving as a final tribute to late keyboardist Richard Wright.
  • C. Repose of Rivers
    "Repose of Rivers" is a poem by American modernist poet Hart Crane, noted for its dense imagery and exploration of memory, landscape, and emotional transformation.
  • D. The Stone in the River
    The Stone in the River is an alias used for Abra Stone, a powerful psychic character from Stephen King’s Bill Hodges trilogy and the novel "Doctor Sleep."
  • E. Door to the River
    Door to the River is a 1960 abstract expressionist painting by Willem de Kooning, noted for its gestural brushwork and luminous, landscape-evoking color fields.
  • 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 Book of the River
Triple: [Ian Watson, notableWork, The Book of the River]
Generated description
The Book of the River is a science fiction novel by Ian Watson that blends cosmic-scale ideas with philosophical and psychological themes along a mysterious river journey.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Book of the River
Target entity description: The Book of the River is a science fiction novel by Ian Watson that blends cosmic-scale ideas with philosophical and psychological themes along a mysterious river journey.
  • A. Beyond the River
    Beyond the River is a historical-geographical term used in ancient Near Eastern sources to denote the region west of the Euphrates River, encompassing parts of Syria and Palestine.
  • B. The Endless River
    The Endless River is a 2014 ambient and instrumental studio album by Pink Floyd, built largely from unreleased Division Bell-era recordings and serving as a final tribute to late keyboardist Richard Wright.
  • C. Repose of Rivers
    "Repose of Rivers" is a poem by American modernist poet Hart Crane, noted for its dense imagery and exploration of memory, landscape, and emotional transformation.
  • D. The Stone in the River
    The Stone in the River is an alias used for Abra Stone, a powerful psychic character from Stephen King’s Bill Hodges trilogy and the novel "Doctor Sleep."
  • E. Door to the River
    Door to the River is a 1960 abstract expressionist painting by Willem de Kooning, noted for its gestural brushwork and luminous, landscape-evoking color fields.
  • 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_69d87f255b788190a400eba031dd85d8 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e296b5f0f081909a5379deaf0df5d5 completed April 17, 2026, 8:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00260904748190ae1eb5713a6daa68 completed May 10, 2026, 6:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00279321708190b91aaed83f1abc2c completed May 10, 2026, 6:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00282d9b0c81908031404c41b3baa5 completed May 10, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:06 a.m.