Triple

T4543569
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ian McDonald E109993 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Dervish House
The Dervish House is a near-future science fiction novel by Ian McDonald set in Istanbul, weaving together multiple characters’ stories around nanotechnology, politics, and cultural change.
E451730 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: The Dervish House | Statement: [Ian McDonald, notableWork, The Dervish House]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Dervish House
Context triple: [Ian McDonald, notableWork, The Dervish House]
  • A. House of Marwan
    The House of Marwan was the ruling branch of the Umayyad dynasty descended from Caliph Marwan I, which controlled the Islamic Caliphate during its later period until its overthrow by the Abbasids.
  • B. The Zahir
    The Zahir is a philosophical novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores themes of obsession, love, and spiritual self-discovery through the story of a writer searching for his missing wife.
  • C. The Lost Camel Hotel
    The Lost Camel Hotel is a contemporary, boutique-style accommodation located in Yulara near Uluru in Australia's Northern Territory.
  • D. The Crescent
    The Crescent is a notable curved Georgian terrace and architectural landmark in the market town of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England.
  • E. The Crescent
    The Crescent is an iconic Georgian crescent-shaped building in Buxton, Derbyshire, historically developed as a grand spa hotel and assembly rooms and now a prominent architectural landmark.
  • 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: The Dervish House
Triple: [Ian McDonald, notableWork, The Dervish House]
Generated description
The Dervish House is a near-future science fiction novel by Ian McDonald set in Istanbul, weaving together multiple characters’ stories around nanotechnology, politics, and cultural change.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Dervish House
Target entity description: The Dervish House is a near-future science fiction novel by Ian McDonald set in Istanbul, weaving together multiple characters’ stories around nanotechnology, politics, and cultural change.
  • A. House of Marwan
    The House of Marwan was the ruling branch of the Umayyad dynasty descended from Caliph Marwan I, which controlled the Islamic Caliphate during its later period until its overthrow by the Abbasids.
  • B. The Zahir
    The Zahir is a philosophical novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores themes of obsession, love, and spiritual self-discovery through the story of a writer searching for his missing wife.
  • C. The Lost Camel Hotel
    The Lost Camel Hotel is a contemporary, boutique-style accommodation located in Yulara near Uluru in Australia's Northern Territory.
  • D. The Crescent
    The Crescent is a notable curved Georgian terrace and architectural landmark in the market town of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England.
  • E. The Crescent
    The Crescent is an iconic Georgian crescent-shaped building in Buxton, Derbyshire, historically developed as a grand spa hotel and assembly rooms and now a prominent architectural landmark.
  • 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_69bd4412524c8190be5bcc9ddee91848 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd57d517e881909c3d23ed4453b0a7 completed March 20, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdb92eeaf081909a868825e3a878c7 completed March 20, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdbe9f0fec8190aa42177fcd1b0f51 completed March 20, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdbf59f97c8190a7669e6459c42f16 completed March 20, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:05 p.m.