Triple

T6505614
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steven Gubser E149998 entity
Predicate authorOf P4244 FINISHED
Object The Little Book of String Theory
The Little Book of String Theory is an accessible introductory book that explains the basic ideas, motivations, and implications of string theory for a general audience.
 E600710 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 Little Book of String Theory | Statement: [Steven Gubser, authorOf, The Little Book of String Theory]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Little Book of String Theory
Context triple: [Steven Gubser, authorOf, The Little Book of String Theory]
  • A. Superstring Theory, Volume 1: Introduction
    Superstring Theory, Volume 1: Introduction is a foundational graduate-level textbook that systematically presents the basic concepts, mathematical framework, and physical motivations of superstring theory.
  • B. Dreams of a Final Theory
    Dreams of a Final Theory is a popular science book by physicist Steven Weinberg that explores the quest for a unified "theory of everything" in fundamental physics and reflects on the nature and philosophy of scientific explanation.
  • C. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
    QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter is a popular science book by physicist Richard Feynman that explains the quantum theory of electrodynamics in an accessible, lecture-based style.
  • D. The Universe in a Nutshell
    The Universe in a Nutshell is a popular science book by physicist Stephen Hawking that explains advanced concepts in cosmology and theoretical physics for a general audience.
  • E. Feynman’s Lost Lecture
    Feynman’s Lost Lecture is a published reconstruction of a 1964 Richard Feynman physics lecture on planetary orbits, edited and contextualized by David and Judith Goodstein.
  • 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 Little Book of String Theory
Triple: [Steven Gubser, authorOf, The Little Book of String Theory]
Generated description
The Little Book of String Theory is an accessible introductory book that explains the basic ideas, motivations, and implications of string theory for a general audience.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Little Book of String Theory
Target entity description: The Little Book of String Theory is an accessible introductory book that explains the basic ideas, motivations, and implications of string theory for a general audience.
  • A. Superstring Theory, Volume 1: Introduction
    Superstring Theory, Volume 1: Introduction is a foundational graduate-level textbook that systematically presents the basic concepts, mathematical framework, and physical motivations of superstring theory.
  • B. Dreams of a Final Theory
    Dreams of a Final Theory is a popular science book by physicist Steven Weinberg that explores the quest for a unified "theory of everything" in fundamental physics and reflects on the nature and philosophy of scientific explanation.
  • C. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
    QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter is a popular science book by physicist Richard Feynman that explains the quantum theory of electrodynamics in an accessible, lecture-based style.
  • D. The Universe in a Nutshell
    The Universe in a Nutshell is a popular science book by physicist Stephen Hawking that explains advanced concepts in cosmology and theoretical physics for a general audience.
  • E. Feynman’s Lost Lecture
    Feynman’s Lost Lecture is a published reconstruction of a 1964 Richard Feynman physics lecture on planetary orbits, edited and contextualized by David and Judith Goodstein.
  • 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_69c687ef291081909d437f035eef1cda completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c69966ff708190902c88cb6b48e5d7 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6cb43db608190b785e77f6850bb6f completed March 27, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6cc96edd08190b0c0f1b49dd64160 completed March 27, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6cd8d15ec8190be5a8c5e3f201139 completed March 27, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:43 p.m.