Triple

T1799575
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Caves of Steel E39683 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Dr. Sarton
Dr. Sarton is a Spacer roboticist and key figure in Isaac Asimov’s science fiction novel "The Caves of Steel," whose murder sets the central mystery in motion.
E201024 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: Dr. Sarton | Statement: [The Caves of Steel, character, Dr. Sarton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Sarton
Context triple: [The Caves of Steel, character, Dr. Sarton]
  • A. Dr. Eleanor O’Hara
    Dr. Eleanor O’Hara is a fictional, sharp-witted British emergency room physician on the TV series "Nurse Jackie."
  • B. Cordelia Whewell
    Cordelia Whewell was the wife of 19th-century English polymath and philosopher William Whewell, known primarily through her marriage into his intellectual and academic circle.
  • C. Dr. Claire Finn
    Dr. Claire Finn is a skilled physician and senior medical officer aboard the exploratory spaceship USS Orville in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
  • D. Miriam Rothschild
    Miriam Rothschild was a renowned British naturalist and entomologist celebrated for her pioneering work on fleas, biodiversity, and wildlife conservation.
  • E. Elinor Junkin
    Elinor Junkin was the first wife of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, who died young shortly after their marriage in the 1850s.
  • 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: Dr. Sarton
Triple: [The Caves of Steel, character, Dr. Sarton]
Generated description
Dr. Sarton is a Spacer roboticist and key figure in Isaac Asimov’s science fiction novel "The Caves of Steel," whose murder sets the central mystery in motion.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dr. Sarton
Target entity description: Dr. Sarton is a Spacer roboticist and key figure in Isaac Asimov’s science fiction novel "The Caves of Steel," whose murder sets the central mystery in motion.
  • A. Dr. Eleanor O’Hara
    Dr. Eleanor O’Hara is a fictional, sharp-witted British emergency room physician on the TV series "Nurse Jackie."
  • B. Cordelia Whewell
    Cordelia Whewell was the wife of 19th-century English polymath and philosopher William Whewell, known primarily through her marriage into his intellectual and academic circle.
  • C. Dr. Claire Finn
    Dr. Claire Finn is a skilled physician and senior medical officer aboard the exploratory spaceship USS Orville in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
  • D. Miriam Rothschild
    Miriam Rothschild was a renowned British naturalist and entomologist celebrated for her pioneering work on fleas, biodiversity, and wildlife conservation.
  • E. Elinor Junkin
    Elinor Junkin was the first wife of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, who died young shortly after their marriage in the 1850s.
  • 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_69a88632aa588190ba3978fde0db5bbd completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa6569b2e48190a56cf48160796d2e completed March 6, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adb5d8da888190a88f3bd8036e19f4 completed March 8, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adb69c149081908b5b819c068a1ce2 completed March 8, 2026, 5:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adb8be528c819092a5e22b099fc2a0 completed March 8, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.