Triple

T5008132
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ian McEwan E112546 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Machines Like Me
Machines Like Me is a speculative novel by Ian McEwan that explores artificial intelligence, ethics, and human relationships in an alternate 1980s Britain.
 E487095 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: Machines Like Me | Statement: [Ian McEwan, notableWork, Machines Like Me]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Machines Like Me
Context triple: [Ian McEwan, notableWork, Machines Like Me]
  • A. The Machine
    The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
  • B. The Machine
    The Machine is a powerful, clandestine artificial superintelligence from the TV series "Person of Interest" that predicts violent crimes by analyzing global surveillance data.
  • C. The Machine of the World
    The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
  • D. La Máquina
    La Máquina is the popular nickname of Mexican football club Cruz Azul, highlighting its reputation as a powerful, relentless team.
  • E. The Children’s Machine
    The Children’s Machine is a seminal book by Seymour Papert that explores how computers can transform education by empowering children to learn through exploration, creativity, and constructionist principles.
  • 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: Machines Like Me
Triple: [Ian McEwan, notableWork, Machines Like Me]
Generated description
Machines Like Me is a speculative novel by Ian McEwan that explores artificial intelligence, ethics, and human relationships in an alternate 1980s Britain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Machines Like Me
Target entity description: Machines Like Me is a speculative novel by Ian McEwan that explores artificial intelligence, ethics, and human relationships in an alternate 1980s Britain.
  • A. The Machine
    The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
  • B. The Machine
    The Machine is a powerful, clandestine artificial superintelligence from the TV series "Person of Interest" that predicts violent crimes by analyzing global surveillance data.
  • C. The Machine of the World
    The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
  • D. La Máquina
    La Máquina is the popular nickname of Mexican football club Cruz Azul, highlighting its reputation as a powerful, relentless team.
  • E. The Children’s Machine
    The Children’s Machine is a seminal book by Seymour Papert that explores how computers can transform education by empowering children to learn through exploration, creativity, and constructionist principles.
  • 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_69bd4433d0b08190877e83959ef40d81 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd72eb05f881908d7dc3d7cd07b2ae completed March 20, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be9266314881909dfb710c5b5c8f65 completed March 21, 2026, 12:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be93cfbe2881908cf97dd9ec5d28b5 completed March 21, 2026, 12:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be9448b5148190903775d394a095f0 completed March 21, 2026, 12:51 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:35 p.m.