Triple

T7013513

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Vernor Vinge	`E162641`	entity
Predicate	wrote	`P2831`	FINISHED
Object	essay "The Coming Technological Singularity" "The Coming Technological Singularity" is a seminal 1993 essay by mathematician and science fiction author Vernor Vinge that popularized the concept of a future point where accelerating technological progress, especially in artificial intelligence, leads to unprecedented and unpredictable changes in human civilization.	`E635668`	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: essay "The Coming Technological Singularity" | Statement: [Vernor Vinge, wrote, essay "The Coming Technological Singularity"]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: essay "The Coming Technological Singularity"
Context triple: [Vernor Vinge, wrote, essay "The Coming Technological Singularity"]

A. The Singularity Is Near
The Singularity Is Near is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the imminent rise of superintelligent machines and explores the profound technological, social, and philosophical implications of this transformation.
B. The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth is a speculative nonfiction book that explores a future society dominated by brain-emulation-based robots and examines how this transformation would reshape economics, work, and human relationships.
C. As We May Think
As We May Think is a seminal 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush that envisioned hypertext-like information systems and profoundly influenced the development of modern computing and the internet.
D. The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Age of Spiritual Machines is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the evolution of artificial intelligence and its profound impact on human society and consciousness.
E. The Technological System
The Technological System is a seminal work by French philosopher and sociologist Jacques Ellul that analyzes how modern technology forms an autonomous, all-encompassing system shaping society, politics, and human behavior.
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: essay "The Coming Technological Singularity"
Triple: [Vernor Vinge, wrote, essay "The Coming Technological Singularity"]

Generated description

"The Coming Technological Singularity" is a seminal 1993 essay by mathematician and science fiction author Vernor Vinge that popularized the concept of a future point where accelerating technological progress, especially in artificial intelligence, leads to unprecedented and unpredictable changes in human civilization.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: essay "The Coming Technological Singularity"
Target entity description: "The Coming Technological Singularity" is a seminal 1993 essay by mathematician and science fiction author Vernor Vinge that popularized the concept of a future point where accelerating technological progress, especially in artificial intelligence, leads to unprecedented and unpredictable changes in human civilization.

A. The Singularity Is Near
The Singularity Is Near is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the imminent rise of superintelligent machines and explores the profound technological, social, and philosophical implications of this transformation.
B. The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth
The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth is a speculative nonfiction book that explores a future society dominated by brain-emulation-based robots and examines how this transformation would reshape economics, work, and human relationships.
C. As We May Think
As We May Think is a seminal 1945 essay by Vannevar Bush that envisioned hypertext-like information systems and profoundly influenced the development of modern computing and the internet.
D. The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Age of Spiritual Machines is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the evolution of artificial intelligence and its profound impact on human society and consciousness.
E. The Technological System
The Technological System is a seminal work by French philosopher and sociologist Jacques Ellul that analyzes how modern technology forms an autonomous, all-encompassing system shaping society, politics, and human behavior.
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.