Triple
T21041189
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Boyne |
E518327
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entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object | The Thief of Time |
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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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.