Triple

T4861744
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject China Miéville E108676 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Embassytown
Embassytown is a science fiction novel by China Miéville that explores themes of language, colonialism, and alien communication on a distant planet.
E474469 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: Embassytown | Statement: [China Miéville, notableWork, Embassytown]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Embassytown
Context triple: [China Miéville, notableWork, Embassytown]
  • A. The City and the Stars
    The City and the Stars is a classic science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of immortality, memory, and the cyclical nature of civilization in a far-future utopian city.
  • B. The Songs of Distant Earth
    The Songs of Distant Earth is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of interstellar travel, human colonization, and the emotional costs of leaving a dying Earth behind.
  • C. The Emissaries
    The Emissaries is the English title of Surah Al-Mursalat, a chapter of the Qur’an that emphasizes divine judgment, the fate of deniers, and the certainty of the Day of Resurrection.
  • D. The World Ender
    "The World Ender" is a dark, cinematic indie folk-rock song by Lord Huron that blends Western noir storytelling with haunting, mythic imagery.
  • E. The Vanishing Face of Gaia
    The Vanishing Face of Gaia is a 2009 environmental science book by James Lovelock in which he warns of imminent, severe climate change and argues that humanity must adapt to survive on a self-regulating Earth.
  • 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: Embassytown
Triple: [China Miéville, notableWork, Embassytown]
Generated description
Embassytown is a science fiction novel by China Miéville that explores themes of language, colonialism, and alien communication on a distant planet.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Embassytown
Target entity description: Embassytown is a science fiction novel by China Miéville that explores themes of language, colonialism, and alien communication on a distant planet.
  • A. The City and the Stars
    The City and the Stars is a classic science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of immortality, memory, and the cyclical nature of civilization in a far-future utopian city.
  • B. The Songs of Distant Earth
    The Songs of Distant Earth is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of interstellar travel, human colonization, and the emotional costs of leaving a dying Earth behind.
  • C. The Emissaries
    The Emissaries is the English title of Surah Al-Mursalat, a chapter of the Qur’an that emphasizes divine judgment, the fate of deniers, and the certainty of the Day of Resurrection.
  • D. The World Ender
    "The World Ender" is a dark, cinematic indie folk-rock song by Lord Huron that blends Western noir storytelling with haunting, mythic imagery.
  • E. The Vanishing Face of Gaia
    The Vanishing Face of Gaia is a 2009 environmental science book by James Lovelock in which he warns of imminent, severe climate change and argues that humanity must adapt to survive on a self-regulating Earth.
  • 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_69bd440b965081908b0557721cae6338 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d5f62b48190b367ed1b850cfbcb completed March 20, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be5cf921cc8190a092bb69c1981890 completed March 21, 2026, 8:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be5e833ca88190b89dda5cafb180fe completed March 21, 2026, 9:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be5eed97a08190afd99a0700f1f4c7 completed March 21, 2026, 9:03 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:26 p.m.