Triple

T6264537
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Machine Stops E140380 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Vashti
Vashti is a central character in E.M. Forster’s dystopian science fiction story "The Machine Stops," embodying blind faith in a technologically controlled, isolated society.
E582481 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: Vashti | Statement: [The Machine Stops, mainCharacter, Vashti]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vashti
Context triple: [The Machine Stops, mainCharacter, Vashti]
  • A. Vashti
    Vashti is the deposed queen of Persia in the biblical Book of Esther, known for refusing King Ahasuerus’s command to appear before his guests.
  • B. Esther
    Esther is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament that tells the story of a Jewish woman who becomes queen of Persia and courageously saves her people from annihilation.
  • C. Esther
    Esther is a central character in Paulo Coelho’s novel *The Zahir*, portrayed as the missing wife whose disappearance drives the narrator’s obsessive spiritual and emotional quest.
  • D. Roxana
    Roxana is a feminine given name of Persian origin, historically associated with figures such as the wife of Alexander the Great and later borne by various notable women.
  • E. Almirena
    Almirena is a central soprano role in George Frideric Handel’s opera "Rinaldo," portrayed as the virtuous and beloved daughter of the Christian leader Goffredo.
  • 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: Vashti
Triple: [The Machine Stops, mainCharacter, Vashti]
Generated description
Vashti is a central character in E.M. Forster’s dystopian science fiction story "The Machine Stops," embodying blind faith in a technologically controlled, isolated society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vashti
Target entity description: Vashti is a central character in E.M. Forster’s dystopian science fiction story "The Machine Stops," embodying blind faith in a technologically controlled, isolated society.
  • A. Vashti
    Vashti is the deposed queen of Persia in the biblical Book of Esther, known for refusing King Ahasuerus’s command to appear before his guests.
  • B. Esther
    Esther is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament that tells the story of a Jewish woman who becomes queen of Persia and courageously saves her people from annihilation.
  • C. Esther
    Esther is a central character in Paulo Coelho’s novel *The Zahir*, portrayed as the missing wife whose disappearance drives the narrator’s obsessive spiritual and emotional quest.
  • D. Roxana
    Roxana is a feminine given name of Persian origin, historically associated with figures such as the wife of Alexander the Great and later borne by various notable women.
  • E. Almirena
    Almirena is a central soprano role in George Frideric Handel’s opera "Rinaldo," portrayed as the virtuous and beloved daughter of the Christian leader Goffredo.
  • 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_69c008cabc4081909723e2547c9d6cc0 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0638c43808190a375e9f29f2b2138 completed March 22, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c51932e704819083e1ed17a86f6b5e completed March 26, 2026, 11:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c52ced35ec8190ab35f5ceb50d9305 completed March 26, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c5847a09c48190887f1d0071e9c591 completed March 26, 2026, 7:09 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:25 p.m.