Triple

T1818177
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pebble in the Sky E40481 entity
Predicate coverArtistFirstEdition P32033 FINISHED
Object Richard Powers
Richard Powers was an American science fiction and fantasy illustrator renowned for his distinctive, surreal paperback and book cover art from the mid-20th century.
E204937 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: Richard Powers | Statement: [Pebble in the Sky, coverArtistFirstEdition, Richard Powers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Powers
Context triple: [Pebble in the Sky, coverArtistFirstEdition, Richard Powers]
  • A. William T. Vollmann
    William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for his ambitious, genre-blurring works that often explore violence, marginalization, and the moral complexities of history and contemporary society.
  • B. Dave Eggers
    Dave Eggers is an American author, editor, and publisher known for works like "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" and for founding the independent publishing house McSweeney’s and the literacy nonprofit 826 Valencia.
  • C. Gunnar Birkerts
    Gunnar Birkerts was a Latvian-American modernist architect renowned for his innovative, sculptural designs for cultural and institutional buildings in the United States.
  • D. Jennifer Egan
    Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning, formally inventive novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad."
  • E. Samuel Dracutt
    Samuel Dracutt was a historical figure after whom the town of Dracut, Massachusetts, was named, likely an early landowner or prominent local settler.
  • 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: Richard Powers
Triple: [Pebble in the Sky, coverArtistFirstEdition, Richard Powers]
Generated description
Richard Powers was an American science fiction and fantasy illustrator renowned for his distinctive, surreal paperback and book cover art from the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Powers
Target entity description: Richard Powers was an American science fiction and fantasy illustrator renowned for his distinctive, surreal paperback and book cover art from the mid-20th century.
  • A. William T. Vollmann
    William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for his ambitious, genre-blurring works that often explore violence, marginalization, and the moral complexities of history and contemporary society.
  • B. Dave Eggers
    Dave Eggers is an American author, editor, and publisher known for works like "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" and for founding the independent publishing house McSweeney’s and the literacy nonprofit 826 Valencia.
  • C. Patrick Nielsen Hayden
    Patrick Nielsen Hayden is an influential American science fiction and fantasy editor and publisher, known for shaping the careers of numerous prominent genre authors.
  • D. Gunnar Birkerts
    Gunnar Birkerts was a Latvian-American modernist architect renowned for his innovative, sculptural designs for cultural and institutional buildings in the United States.
  • E. Jennifer Egan
    Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning, formally inventive novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad."
  • 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_69a8864526c081908a3a4d74f689e2c5 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb0003d308190a024f8c03c5f5dad completed March 7, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adbf6019bc81909266b7f03b282f34 completed March 8, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adc3557d988190ae04df41e81bc842 completed March 8, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adc3fadd08819090f9eedb4688cd4a completed March 8, 2026, 6:46 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.