Triple

T4666680
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Star Wars novels E102861 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Heir to the Empire
Heir to the Empire is a bestselling Star Wars Expanded Universe novel by Timothy Zahn that launched the Thrawn Trilogy and revitalized interest in Star Wars in the early 1990s.
E465899 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: Heir to the Empire | Statement: [Star Wars novels, notableWork, Heir to the Empire]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Heir to the Empire
Context triple: [Star Wars novels, notableWork, Heir to the Empire]
  • A. Rise of the Galactic Empire
    The Rise of the Galactic Empire is the pivotal transformation in the Star Wars saga in which the democratic Galactic Republic collapses and is replaced by Emperor Palpatine’s authoritarian regime, setting the stage for the original trilogy’s conflict.
  • B. Legacy of the Force
    Legacy of the Force is a nine-book Star Wars novel series set in the post–Return of the Jedi Expanded Universe, chronicling the rise of a new Sith threat and the resulting galactic civil war.
  • C. The New Jedi Order
    The New Jedi Order is a Star Wars novel series set decades after the original films, chronicling the galaxy’s war against the extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong and the evolution of Luke Skywalker’s new Jedi Order.
  • D. Dark Lords of the Sith
    Dark Lords of the Sith is a Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi comic subseries that explores the rise of ancient Sith powers and pivotal events in the Old Republic era.
  • E. Star Wars: Hidden Empire
    Star Wars: Hidden Empire is a Marvel Comics limited series set in the Star Wars universe that follows Qi'ra’s secretive campaign against the Sith and the Galactic Empire.
  • 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: Heir to the Empire
Triple: [Star Wars novels, notableWork, Heir to the Empire]
Generated description
Heir to the Empire is a bestselling Star Wars Expanded Universe novel by Timothy Zahn that launched the Thrawn Trilogy and revitalized interest in Star Wars in the early 1990s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Heir to the Empire
Target entity description: Heir to the Empire is a bestselling Star Wars Expanded Universe novel by Timothy Zahn that launched the Thrawn Trilogy and revitalized interest in Star Wars in the early 1990s.
  • A. Rise of the Galactic Empire
    The Rise of the Galactic Empire is the pivotal transformation in the Star Wars saga in which the democratic Galactic Republic collapses and is replaced by Emperor Palpatine’s authoritarian regime, setting the stage for the original trilogy’s conflict.
  • B. Legacy of the Force
    Legacy of the Force is a nine-book Star Wars novel series set in the post–Return of the Jedi Expanded Universe, chronicling the rise of a new Sith threat and the resulting galactic civil war.
  • C. The New Jedi Order
    The New Jedi Order is a Star Wars novel series set decades after the original films, chronicling the galaxy’s war against the extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong and the evolution of Luke Skywalker’s new Jedi Order.
  • D. Dark Lords of the Sith
    Dark Lords of the Sith is a Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi comic subseries that explores the rise of ancient Sith powers and pivotal events in the Old Republic era.
  • E. Star Wars: Hidden Empire
    Star Wars: Hidden Empire is a Marvel Comics limited series set in the Star Wars universe that follows Qi'ra’s secretive campaign against the Sith and the Galactic Empire.
  • 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_69bd43d9cba4819086c1ab1c2d9d2133 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd633d87788190a3c8946ed6995062 completed March 20, 2026, 3:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be39bb60d88190b44e468904c85af9 completed March 21, 2026, 6:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be3b7d0e3c8190a4c4fabee0299908 completed March 21, 2026, 6:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be3c059b1c819084fa4c30e576fd2e completed March 21, 2026, 6:34 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:15 p.m.