Triple

T4805612
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stephen Baxter E106938 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Time Ships
The Time Ships is a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter that serves as an authorized sequel to H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, expanding its time-travel concepts with hard-science speculation and complex alternate timelines.
E469515 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 Time Ships | Statement: [Stephen Baxter, notableWork, The Time Ships]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Time Ships
Context triple: [Stephen Baxter, notableWork, The Time Ships]
  • A. Ships in a Calm
    Ships in a Calm is a serene 17th-century maritime painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Willem van de Velde the Younger, celebrated for its meticulous detail and atmospheric depiction of ships at rest.
  • B. The Voyage
    "The Voyage" is an essay by Washington Irving that reflects on the emotions and experiences of transatlantic travel, serving as the opening piece in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*
  • C. The Ship Who Sang
    The Ship Who Sang is a science fiction novel by Anne McCaffrey about a severely disabled girl whose brain is integrated into a starship, exploring themes of identity, autonomy, and humanity.
  • D. Voyage in Time
    Voyage in Time is a 1983 documentary film that follows director Andrei Tarkovsky and screenwriter Tonino Guerra as they travel through Italy discussing cinema, art, and Tarkovsky’s creative philosophy.
  • E. Las Naves
    Las Naves is a small town located in Bolívar Province in central Ecuador.
  • 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 Time Ships
Triple: [Stephen Baxter, notableWork, The Time Ships]
Generated description
The Time Ships is a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter that serves as an authorized sequel to H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, expanding its time-travel concepts with hard-science speculation and complex alternate timelines.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Time Ships
Target entity description: The Time Ships is a science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter that serves as an authorized sequel to H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, expanding its time-travel concepts with hard-science speculation and complex alternate timelines.
  • A. Ships in a Calm
    Ships in a Calm is a serene 17th-century maritime painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Willem van de Velde the Younger, celebrated for its meticulous detail and atmospheric depiction of ships at rest.
  • B. The Voyage
    "The Voyage" is an essay by Washington Irving that reflects on the emotions and experiences of transatlantic travel, serving as the opening piece in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*
  • C. The Ship Who Sang
    The Ship Who Sang is a science fiction novel by Anne McCaffrey about a severely disabled girl whose brain is integrated into a starship, exploring themes of identity, autonomy, and humanity.
  • D. Voyage in Time
    Voyage in Time is a 1983 documentary film that follows director Andrei Tarkovsky and screenwriter Tonino Guerra as they travel through Italy discussing cinema, art, and Tarkovsky’s creative philosophy.
  • E. Las Naves
    Las Naves is a small town located in Bolívar Province in central Ecuador.
  • 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_69bd43f6a1e08190bf0a372bfc336ee5 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6c678e58819094cdf18d8c5ea96f completed March 20, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be440706888190a5f62bef629d3777 completed March 21, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be45e0c5a48190b9e390048c863f06 completed March 21, 2026, 7:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be46ef17588190a9bc179029e0a6a0 completed March 21, 2026, 7:21 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:23 p.m.