Triple

T7013479
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vernor Vinge E162641 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object A Fire Upon the Deep
A Fire Upon the Deep is a 1992 science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge, renowned for its richly imagined galactic-scale setting, exploration of superhuman intelligence, and influential "Zones of Thought" concept.
 E635658 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: A Fire Upon the Deep | Statement: [Vernor Vinge, notableWork, A Fire Upon the Deep]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: A Fire Upon the Deep
Context triple: [Vernor Vinge, notableWork, A Fire Upon the Deep]
  • A. The Fountains of Paradise
    The Fountains of Paradise is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that centers on the visionary construction of a space elevator on a fictionalized Sri Lankan island, exploring themes of technological ambition, religion, and human progress.
  • B. A Mind Forever Voyaging
    A Mind Forever Voyaging is a pioneering 1985 interactive fiction game by Infocom that explores political and philosophical themes through the perspective of a sentient computer.
  • C. Ringworld
    Ringworld is a science fiction megastructure concept, popularized by Larry Niven’s novel of the same name, depicting a vast artificial ring encircling a star to provide an enormous habitable surface area.
  • D. The Songs of Distant Earth
    The Songs of Distant Earth is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of interstellar travel, human colonization, and the emotional costs of leaving a dying Earth behind.
  • E. The City and the Stars
    The City and the Stars is a classic science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of immortality, memory, and the cyclical nature of civilization in a far-future utopian city.
  • 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: A Fire Upon the Deep
Triple: [Vernor Vinge, notableWork, A Fire Upon the Deep]
Generated description
A Fire Upon the Deep is a 1992 science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge, renowned for its richly imagined galactic-scale setting, exploration of superhuman intelligence, and influential "Zones of Thought" concept.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: A Fire Upon the Deep
Target entity description: A Fire Upon the Deep is a 1992 science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge, renowned for its richly imagined galactic-scale setting, exploration of superhuman intelligence, and influential "Zones of Thought" concept.
  • A. The Fountains of Paradise
    The Fountains of Paradise is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that centers on the visionary construction of a space elevator on a fictionalized Sri Lankan island, exploring themes of technological ambition, religion, and human progress.
  • B. A Mind Forever Voyaging
    A Mind Forever Voyaging is a pioneering 1985 interactive fiction game by Infocom that explores political and philosophical themes through the perspective of a sentient computer.
  • C. Ringworld
    Ringworld is a science fiction megastructure concept, popularized by Larry Niven’s novel of the same name, depicting a vast artificial ring encircling a star to provide an enormous habitable surface area.
  • D. The Songs of Distant Earth
    The Songs of Distant Earth is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of interstellar travel, human colonization, and the emotional costs of leaving a dying Earth behind.
  • E. The City and the Stars
    The City and the Stars is a classic science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of immortality, memory, and the cyclical nature of civilization in a far-future utopian city.
  • 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_69c6885a127c8190867b059bdccf13ff completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6dc59cbfc8190bba9ebd14143d43c completed March 27, 2026, 7:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c76a4ff6148190a7a453328507fd6b completed March 28, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c76c23b3f881909c4aa800690c0293 completed March 28, 2026, 5:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c76cb513d881909da349b4b4b88a61 completed March 28, 2026, 5:52 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:34 p.m.