Triple

T55974
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cosmos: A Personal Voyage E1106 entity
Predicate notableEpisode P2757 FINISHED
Object The Backbone of Night
"The Backbone of Night" is an episode of the science documentary series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" in which Carl Sagan explores humanity’s evolving understanding of the Milky Way and our place in the universe.
E11609 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 Backbone of Night | Statement: [Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, notableEpisode, The Backbone of Night]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Backbone of Night
Context triple: [Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, notableEpisode, The Backbone of Night]
  • A. In the Shadow of Man
    In the Shadow of Man is Jane Goodall’s influential 1971 book that chronicles her pioneering field research on wild chimpanzees in Tanzania and helped transform our understanding of primate behavior and human evolution.
  • B. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
  • C. The Mysterious Mother
    The Mysterious Mother is a 1768 Gothic verse drama by Horace Walpole that explores dark themes of incest, guilt, and religious anxiety within an aristocratic family.
  • D. L’Enfant
    L’Enfant is the surname of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the basic plan for Washington, D.C.
  • E. Harrow Songs
    Harrow Songs are a celebrated collection of traditional school songs closely associated with the culture and history of Harrow School in England.
  • 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 Backbone of Night
Triple: [Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, notableEpisode, The Backbone of Night]
Generated description
"The Backbone of Night" is an episode of the science documentary series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" in which Carl Sagan explores humanity’s evolving understanding of the Milky Way and our place in the universe.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Backbone of Night
Target entity description: "The Backbone of Night" is an episode of the science documentary series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" in which Carl Sagan explores humanity’s evolving understanding of the Milky Way and our place in the universe.
  • A. In the Shadow of Man
    In the Shadow of Man is Jane Goodall’s influential 1971 book that chronicles her pioneering field research on wild chimpanzees in Tanzania and helped transform our understanding of primate behavior and human evolution.
  • B. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a comic fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams featuring the eccentric holistic detective Dirk Gently as he becomes entangled with Norse gods and bizarre supernatural events in modern-day London.
  • C. The Mysterious Mother
    The Mysterious Mother is a 1768 Gothic verse drama by Horace Walpole that explores dark themes of incest, guilt, and religious anxiety within an aristocratic family.
  • D. L’Enfant
    L’Enfant is the surname of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the basic plan for Washington, D.C.
  • E. Harrow Songs
    Harrow Songs are a celebrated collection of traditional school songs closely associated with the culture and history of Harrow School in England.
  • 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_69a248adc5b48190aa8db9fb092fb28a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:45 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24ec4d84c81908d85a1e941dbcd19 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a27bff33b8819084f00ed115ebedeb completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a27f2f07d88190832000212142b088 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a27ffd4818819091a276d54c750dc0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:50 a.m.