Triple

T5077542
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Julian Barnes E114434 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Noise of Time
The Noise of Time is a novel by Julian Barnes that fictionalizes the life of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich under Stalinist oppression.
 E493163 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 Noise of Time | Statement: [Julian Barnes, notableWork, The Noise of Time]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Noise of Time
Context triple: [Julian Barnes, notableWork, The Noise of Time]
  • A. The Refusal of Time
    The Refusal of Time is a multimedia installation by South African artist William Kentridge that combines film, sculpture, sound, and performance to explore the nature and perception of time.
  • B. Cycles of Time
    Cycles of Time is a popular-science book by mathematical physicist Roger Penrose that explores his conformal cyclic cosmology theory about the universe undergoing endless successive aeons.
  • C. The Distant Hours
    The Distant Hours is a gothic historical novel by Australian author Kate Morton that weaves together family secrets, wartime memories, and a mysterious English castle.
  • D. Till the End of Time
    "Till the End of Time" is a song featured on the album *Emotions*.
  • E. The Sundial
    "The Sundial" is a darkly comic Gothic novel by Shirley Jackson that explores themes of family dysfunction, apocalyptic prophecy, and claustrophobic isolation within a grand, eerie mansion.
  • 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 Noise of Time
Triple: [Julian Barnes, notableWork, The Noise of Time]
Generated description
The Noise of Time is a novel by Julian Barnes that fictionalizes the life of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich under Stalinist oppression.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Noise of Time
Target entity description: The Noise of Time is a novel by Julian Barnes that fictionalizes the life of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich under Stalinist oppression.
  • A. The Refusal of Time
    The Refusal of Time is a multimedia installation by South African artist William Kentridge that combines film, sculpture, sound, and performance to explore the nature and perception of time.
  • B. Cycles of Time
    Cycles of Time is a popular-science book by mathematical physicist Roger Penrose that explores his conformal cyclic cosmology theory about the universe undergoing endless successive aeons.
  • C. The Distant Hours
    The Distant Hours is a gothic historical novel by Australian author Kate Morton that weaves together family secrets, wartime memories, and a mysterious English castle.
  • D. Till the End of Time
    "Till the End of Time" is a song featured on the album *Emotions*.
  • E. The Sundial
    "The Sundial" is a darkly comic Gothic novel by Shirley Jackson that explores themes of family dysfunction, apocalyptic prophecy, and claustrophobic isolation within a grand, eerie mansion.
  • 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_69bd443dbf908190a9401e9c2dc7bd7d completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd74f632788190ac4fd047e1a20485 completed March 20, 2026, 4:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69beb12718388190974df282ec2c6a11 completed March 21, 2026, 2:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69beb1d1202881909007f34c23887b35 completed March 21, 2026, 2:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69beb2547068819092c98b471be691a1 completed March 21, 2026, 2:59 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:39 p.m.