Triple

T6910307
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lois McMaster Bujold E159912 entity
Predicate seriesCreated P5039 FINISHED
Object The Sharing Knife
The Sharing Knife is a romantic fantasy novel series by Lois McMaster Bujold set in a frontier world where magic, cultural conflict, and an unlikely cross-cultural marriage drive the story.
E628053 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 Sharing Knife | Statement: [Lois McMaster Bujold, seriesCreated, The Sharing Knife]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Sharing Knife
Context triple: [Lois McMaster Bujold, seriesCreated, The Sharing Knife]
  • A. The Shape of the Sword
    "The Shape of the Sword" is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, included in his collection *Ficciones*, that explores themes of identity, betrayal, and narrative unreliability through a framed tale of a mysterious scarred man.
  • B. The Sword of Shannara
    The Sword of Shannara is a classic epic fantasy novel that launched Terry Brooks’s Shannara series, following a young hero’s quest to wield a magical sword against a dark warlock in a post-apocalyptic world.
  • C. Tehanu
    Tehanu is a fantasy novel in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea series that revisits the archipelago through a more intimate, feminist lens, focusing on the lives of Tenar and a mysterious, traumatized child.
  • D. The Subtle Knife
    The Subtle Knife is the second novel in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, introducing a dimension-cutting knife and expanding the series’ multiverse and theological themes.
  • E. The Wishsong of Shannara
    The Wishsong of Shannara is a fantasy novel by Terry Brooks set in his Shannara universe, following siblings Brin and Jair Ohmsford as they confront a dark magic threatening their world.
  • 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 Sharing Knife
Triple: [Lois McMaster Bujold, seriesCreated, The Sharing Knife]
Generated description
The Sharing Knife is a romantic fantasy novel series by Lois McMaster Bujold set in a frontier world where magic, cultural conflict, and an unlikely cross-cultural marriage drive the story.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Sharing Knife
Target entity description: The Sharing Knife is a romantic fantasy novel series by Lois McMaster Bujold set in a frontier world where magic, cultural conflict, and an unlikely cross-cultural marriage drive the story.
  • A. The Shape of the Sword
    "The Shape of the Sword" is a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, included in his collection *Ficciones*, that explores themes of identity, betrayal, and narrative unreliability through a framed tale of a mysterious scarred man.
  • B. The Sword of Shannara
    The Sword of Shannara is a classic epic fantasy novel that launched Terry Brooks’s Shannara series, following a young hero’s quest to wield a magical sword against a dark warlock in a post-apocalyptic world.
  • C. Tehanu
    Tehanu is a fantasy novel in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea series that revisits the archipelago through a more intimate, feminist lens, focusing on the lives of Tenar and a mysterious, traumatized child.
  • D. The Subtle Knife
    The Subtle Knife is the second novel in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, introducing a dimension-cutting knife and expanding the series’ multiverse and theological themes.
  • E. The Wishsong of Shannara
    The Wishsong of Shannara is a fantasy novel by Terry Brooks set in his Shannara universe, following siblings Brin and Jair Ohmsford as they confront a dark magic threatening their world.
  • 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_69c68839ccb88190b4aa5cc1aca3448f completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d9c00e948190b103a2b2a2738bb1 completed March 27, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c749076f6c819088b0b40dd3e208b0 completed March 28, 2026, 3:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c74c274258819099913ac5610730ac completed March 28, 2026, 3:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c74cca47b88190867550802db43ef0 completed March 28, 2026, 3:36 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:25 p.m.