Triple

T4765356
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Byzantine Generals Problem E105795 entity
Predicate relatedConcept P37 FINISHED
Object Byzantine fault tolerance
Byzantine fault tolerance is a property of distributed systems that enables them to continue operating correctly even when some components behave arbitrarily or maliciously.
E471415 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: Byzantine fault tolerance | Statement: [Byzantine Generals Problem, relatedConcept, Byzantine fault tolerance]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Byzantine fault tolerance
Context triple: [Byzantine Generals Problem, relatedConcept, Byzantine fault tolerance]
  • A. Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance
    Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance is a consensus algorithm for distributed systems that efficiently tolerates Byzantine (arbitrary) faults, enabling reliable operation even when some nodes behave maliciously or unpredictably.
  • B. Byzantine Generals Problem
    The Byzantine Generals Problem is a classic computer science and distributed systems thought experiment that illustrates the difficulty of achieving reliable consensus among participants in the presence of faulty or malicious actors.
  • C. "Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults"
    "Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults" is a seminal paper in distributed computing that introduced the Byzantine Generals Problem and laid the foundations for understanding consensus in unreliable, fault-prone systems.
  • D. Paxos consensus algorithm
    The Paxos consensus algorithm is a fault-tolerant protocol for achieving agreement among distributed systems, widely used as a foundation for reliable, replicated state machines and modern distributed databases.
  • E. FLP impossibility result
    The FLP impossibility result is a foundational theorem in distributed computing showing that in an asynchronous system, no deterministic consensus protocol can guarantee both safety and liveness in the presence of even a single crash failure.
  • 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: Byzantine fault tolerance
Triple: [Byzantine Generals Problem, relatedConcept, Byzantine fault tolerance]
Generated description
Byzantine fault tolerance is a property of distributed systems that enables them to continue operating correctly even when some components behave arbitrarily or maliciously.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Byzantine fault tolerance
Target entity description: Byzantine fault tolerance is a property of distributed systems that enables them to continue operating correctly even when some components behave arbitrarily or maliciously.
  • A. Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance
    Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance is a consensus algorithm for distributed systems that efficiently tolerates Byzantine (arbitrary) faults, enabling reliable operation even when some nodes behave maliciously or unpredictably.
  • B. Byzantine Generals Problem
    The Byzantine Generals Problem is a classic computer science and distributed systems thought experiment that illustrates the difficulty of achieving reliable consensus among participants in the presence of faulty or malicious actors.
  • C. "Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults"
    "Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults" is a seminal paper in distributed computing that introduced the Byzantine Generals Problem and laid the foundations for understanding consensus in unreliable, fault-prone systems.
  • D. Paxos consensus algorithm
    The Paxos consensus algorithm is a fault-tolerant protocol for achieving agreement among distributed systems, widely used as a foundation for reliable, replicated state machines and modern distributed databases.
  • E. FLP impossibility result
    The FLP impossibility result is a foundational theorem in distributed computing showing that in an asynchronous system, no deterministic consensus protocol can guarantee both safety and liveness in the presence of even a single crash failure.
  • 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_69bd43f226fc8190b867cc249c2a9042 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd65327af48190881c25763232c368 completed March 20, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be4d8b67248190b7b994f8b333f022 completed March 21, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be4e9378f08190b9fb3745ff2ea964 completed March 21, 2026, 7:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be4ef501e081908a75547e9bb52c0c completed March 21, 2026, 7:55 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:21 p.m.