Triple

T4506410
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Sandman E101340 entity
Predicate notableStoryArc P39504 FINISHED
Object Brief Lives
Brief Lives is a major story arc in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman that follows Dream and his sister Delirium on a quest to find their long-lost brother Destruction, exploring themes of change, mortality, and responsibility.
E447148 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: Brief Lives | Statement: [The Sandman, notableStoryArc, Brief Lives]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brief Lives
Context triple: [The Sandman, notableStoryArc, Brief Lives]
  • A. Three Lives
    Three Lives is a 1909 modernist short story collection by Gertrude Stein that experiments with language and narrative in portraying the inner lives of three working-class women.
  • B. Two Lives
    Two Lives is a memoir by Reeve Lindbergh that reflects on her complex family legacy and the contrasting lives of her parents, aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
  • C. A Life
    A Life is the autobiographical memoir of influential film and theatre director Elia Kazan, in which he reflects on his career, personal life, and controversial political choices.
  • D. Parallel Lives
    Parallel Lives is a series of biographies by the ancient Greek writer Plutarch that pairs the lives of famous Greeks and Romans to draw moral and character comparisons.
  • E. Afterlives
    Afterlives is a historical novel by Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah that follows intertwined lives in German-occupied East Africa and its aftermath, exploring themes of colonialism, memory, and survival.
  • 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: Brief Lives
Triple: [The Sandman, notableStoryArc, Brief Lives]
Generated description
Brief Lives is a major story arc in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman that follows Dream and his sister Delirium on a quest to find their long-lost brother Destruction, exploring themes of change, mortality, and responsibility.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brief Lives
Target entity description: Brief Lives is a major story arc in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman that follows Dream and his sister Delirium on a quest to find their long-lost brother Destruction, exploring themes of change, mortality, and responsibility.
  • A. Three Lives
    Three Lives is a 1909 modernist short story collection by Gertrude Stein that experiments with language and narrative in portraying the inner lives of three working-class women.
  • B. Two Lives
    Two Lives is a memoir by Reeve Lindbergh that reflects on her complex family legacy and the contrasting lives of her parents, aviator Charles Lindbergh and writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
  • C. A Life
    A Life is the autobiographical memoir of influential film and theatre director Elia Kazan, in which he reflects on his career, personal life, and controversial political choices.
  • D. Parallel Lives
    Parallel Lives is a series of biographies by the ancient Greek writer Plutarch that pairs the lives of famous Greeks and Romans to draw moral and character comparisons.
  • E. Afterlives
    Afterlives is a historical novel by Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah that follows intertwined lives in German-occupied East Africa and its aftermath, exploring themes of colonialism, memory, and survival.
  • 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_69bd43d175248190894dc58b5b395c26 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd56ff78748190bb667e70c69dc817 completed March 20, 2026, 2:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bd6f9d05d08190bde36e7d614a0e2e completed March 20, 2026, 4:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bd705f5fc481908236c3ff4e6ccb26 completed March 20, 2026, 4:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bd70c7abd08190b2010b7baf0cb8fd completed March 20, 2026, 4:07 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:01 p.m.