Triple

T5778599
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Piscine Molitor Patel E127504 entity
Predicate travelsBy P15183 FINISHED
Object Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum
The Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum is the fictional freighter in Yann Martel’s novel "Life of Pi" that sinks in the Pacific Ocean, leaving the protagonist stranded at sea.
E553641 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: Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum | Statement: [Piscine Molitor Patel, travelsBy, Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum
Context triple: [Piscine Molitor Patel, travelsBy, Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum]
  • A. San Francisco Maru
    The San Francisco Maru is a famous World War II Japanese cargo shipwreck in Chuuk Lagoon, renowned among advanced divers for its well-preserved tanks, trucks, and munitions lying at significant depth.
  • B. Heian Maru
    Heian Maru is a famous World War II Japanese transport shipwreck in Chuuk Lagoon, now a popular site for recreational wreck diving.
  • C. Shinkoku Maru
    Shinkoku Maru is a famous World War II-era Japanese oil tanker wreck that now serves as a popular scuba diving site in Chuuk Lagoon, Micronesia.
  • D. Piper Maru Klotz
    Piper Maru Klotz is the daughter of actress Gillian Anderson and art director Clyde Klotz, known primarily for her connection to her mother's work on The X-Files.
  • E. Kasato Maru
    Kasato Maru was the Japanese steamship that carried the first official group of Japanese immigrants to Brazil in 1908, marking the beginning of Japanese immigration to the country.
  • 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: Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum
Triple: [Piscine Molitor Patel, travelsBy, Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum]
Generated description
The Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum is the fictional freighter in Yann Martel’s novel "Life of Pi" that sinks in the Pacific Ocean, leaving the protagonist stranded at sea.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum
Target entity description: The Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum is the fictional freighter in Yann Martel’s novel "Life of Pi" that sinks in the Pacific Ocean, leaving the protagonist stranded at sea.
  • A. San Francisco Maru
    The San Francisco Maru is a famous World War II Japanese cargo shipwreck in Chuuk Lagoon, renowned among advanced divers for its well-preserved tanks, trucks, and munitions lying at significant depth.
  • B. Heian Maru
    Heian Maru is a famous World War II Japanese transport shipwreck in Chuuk Lagoon, now a popular site for recreational wreck diving.
  • C. Shinkoku Maru
    Shinkoku Maru is a famous World War II-era Japanese oil tanker wreck that now serves as a popular scuba diving site in Chuuk Lagoon, Micronesia.
  • D. Piper Maru Klotz
    Piper Maru Klotz is the daughter of actress Gillian Anderson and art director Clyde Klotz, known primarily for her connection to her mother's work on The X-Files.
  • E. Kasato Maru
    Kasato Maru was the Japanese steamship that carried the first official group of Japanese immigrants to Brazil in 1908, marking the beginning of Japanese immigration to the country.
  • 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_69c008361fa88190aefa4dc41b051e7f completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c029e107348190a03086f1cbfae0d3 completed March 22, 2026, 5:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0b0d1ddb48190a697f202b43cc633 completed March 23, 2026, 3:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0b1cb731481909de9c3fde3595b7b completed March 23, 2026, 3:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0b27f53608190b2a1f78e3cd1b634 completed March 23, 2026, 3:24 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:50 p.m.