Triple
T19583190
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Tunnel in the Sky |
E490045
|
entity |
| Predicate | mainCharacter |
P1183
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Grant Cowper |
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|
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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.