Triple

T19583190
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tunnel in the Sky E490045 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Grant Cowper NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Grant Cowper | Statement: [Tunnel in the Sky, mainCharacter, Grant Cowper]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Grant Cowper
Context triple: [Tunnel in the Sky, mainCharacter, Grant Cowper]
  • A. William Couper
    William Couper is a name shared by several notable historical figures, including a Scottish bishop and an American sculptor known for his works in marble.
  • B. Edward Bancroft
    Edward Bancroft was an 18th-century American-born physician, scientist, and double agent who secretly spied for Britain while serving as secretary to the American commissioners in Paris during the Revolutionary War.
  • C. Archibald Couper
    Archibald Couper was a 19th-century Scottish chemist known for independently developing an early structural theory of organic chemistry, including the concept of carbon’s tetravalency.
  • D. William Gooch
    William Gooch was a colonial-era British administrator who served as lieutenant governor of Virginia and was influential enough that Goochland County was named in his honor.
  • E. William Jayne
    William Jayne was an American physician and politician who became the inaugural governor of Dakota Territory during the Civil War era.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Grant Cowper
Target entity description: Grant Cowper is the protagonist of Robert A. Heinlein’s science fiction novel "Tunnel in the Sky," a student who must survive a deadly interplanetary survival test gone wrong.
  • A. William Couper
    William Couper is a name shared by several notable historical figures, including a Scottish bishop and an American sculptor known for his works in marble.
  • B. Edward Bancroft
    Edward Bancroft was an 18th-century American-born physician, scientist, and double agent who secretly spied for Britain while serving as secretary to the American commissioners in Paris during the Revolutionary War.
  • C. Archibald Couper
    Archibald Couper was a 19th-century Scottish chemist known for independently developing an early structural theory of organic chemistry, including the concept of carbon’s tetravalency.
  • D. William Gooch
    William Gooch was a colonial-era British administrator who served as lieutenant governor of Virginia and was influential enough that Goochland County was named in his honor.
  • E. William Jayne
    William Jayne was an American physician and politician who became the inaugural governor of Dakota Territory during the Civil War era.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69d8e8dd9374819098e36349b3211663 completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6404f34b081908aeb9cc9a5ddf539 completed April 20, 2026, 3:03 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:42 p.m.