Triple

T7013480
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vernor Vinge E162641 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object A Deepness in the Sky
A Deepness in the Sky is a Hugo Award–winning science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge that explores interstellar politics, human enhancement, and first contact with an alien civilization.
E635659 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 Deepness in the Sky | Statement: [Vernor Vinge, notableWork, A Deepness in the Sky]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Deepness in the Sky
Context triple: [Vernor Vinge, notableWork, A Deepness in the Sky]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Perdido Street Station
    Perdido Street Station is a critically acclaimed fantasy novel by China Miéville that blends steampunk, horror, and political intrigue in the sprawling, grotesque city of New Crobuzon.
  • C. Seveneves
    Seveneves is a hard science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that explores humanity’s desperate efforts to survive and rebuild civilization after a catastrophic event renders Earth uninhabitable.
  • D. Embassytown
    Embassytown is a science fiction novel by China Miéville that explores themes of language, colonialism, and alien communication on a distant planet.
  • E. Anathem
    Anathem is a 2008 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that explores philosophy, mathematics, and parallel universes through the lives of cloistered scholars on an alien 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: A Deepness in the Sky
Triple: [Vernor Vinge, notableWork, A Deepness in the Sky]
Generated description
A Deepness in the Sky is a Hugo Award–winning science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge that explores interstellar politics, human enhancement, and first contact with an alien civilization.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Deepness in the Sky
Target entity description: A Deepness in the Sky is a Hugo Award–winning science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge that explores interstellar politics, human enhancement, and first contact with an alien civilization.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Perdido Street Station
    Perdido Street Station is a critically acclaimed fantasy novel by China Miéville that blends steampunk, horror, and political intrigue in the sprawling, grotesque city of New Crobuzon.
  • C. Seveneves
    Seveneves is a hard science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that explores humanity’s desperate efforts to survive and rebuild civilization after a catastrophic event renders Earth uninhabitable.
  • D. Embassytown
    Embassytown is a science fiction novel by China Miéville that explores themes of language, colonialism, and alien communication on a distant planet.
  • E. Anathem
    Anathem is a 2008 science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson that explores philosophy, mathematics, and parallel universes through the lives of cloistered scholars on an alien 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_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.