Triple

T21041189
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Boyne E518327 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Thief of Time NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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 Thief of Time | Statement: [John Boyne, notableWork, The Thief of Time]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Thief of Time
Context triple: [John Boyne, notableWork, The Thief of Time]
  • A. A Thief of Time chosen
    A Thief of Time is a mystery novel by Tony Hillerman featuring Navajo Tribal Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee investigating murders connected to archaeological looting in the American Southwest.
  • B. The Bird of Time
    The Bird of Time is a celebrated early 20th-century poetry collection by Indian poet Sarojini Naidu, noted for its lyrical style and themes of love, mortality, and Indian life.
  • C. the Castle of Time
    The Castle of Time is a vast, clockwork fortress ruled by the personification of Time in Disney’s film "Alice Through the Looking Glass," where the flow and control of time itself are maintained.
  • D. The Subtle Knife
    The Subtle Knife is the second novel in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, introducing a dimension-cutting knife and expanding the series’ multiverse and theological themes.
  • E. The Tenants of Time
    The Tenants of Time is a historical novel by Thomas Flanagan that explores Irish nationalism and rebellion through the intertwined lives of several characters across decades of political upheaval.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

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_69e0b50438e08190917e2538bb8bc034 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6fcefe4688190ad1bed1ef2d7a3e5 completed April 21, 2026, 4:28 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:15 p.m.