Triple

T7060136
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ken MacLeod E164194 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Sky Road
The Sky Road is a science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod that blends political intrigue, alternate history, and spacefaring futures within his Fall Revolution universe.
E638256 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 Sky Road | Statement: [Ken MacLeod, notableWork, The Sky Road]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Sky Road
Context triple: [Ken MacLeod, notableWork, The Sky Road]
  • A. Refuge of the Roads
    "Refuge of the Roads" is a reflective, jazz-inflected folk song by Joni Mitchell from her 1976 album *Hejira*, noted for its introspective lyrics and intricate guitar work.
  • B. Sunken Road
    Sunken Road, later known as Bloody Lane, was a crucial defensive position and the site of some of the fiercest fighting during the American Civil War’s Battle of Antietam.
  • C. Sunrise Road
    Sunrise Road is a scenic mountain roadway in Mount Rainier National Park that climbs to the Sunrise area, one of the park’s highest and most popular viewpoints.
  • D. The Highway
    "The Highway" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury that explores the impact of distant, world-changing events on an isolated Mexican farmer living beside a remote road.
  • E. Desolation Road
    Desolation Road is a science fiction novel by Ian McDonald that follows the intertwined lives of settlers in a strange, isolated town on a terraformed Mars.
  • 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 Sky Road
Triple: [Ken MacLeod, notableWork, The Sky Road]
Generated description
The Sky Road is a science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod that blends political intrigue, alternate history, and spacefaring futures within his Fall Revolution universe.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Sky Road
Target entity description: The Sky Road is a science fiction novel by Ken MacLeod that blends political intrigue, alternate history, and spacefaring futures within his Fall Revolution universe.
  • A. Refuge of the Roads
    "Refuge of the Roads" is a reflective, jazz-inflected folk song by Joni Mitchell from her 1976 album *Hejira*, noted for its introspective lyrics and intricate guitar work.
  • B. Sunken Road
    Sunken Road, later known as Bloody Lane, was a crucial defensive position and the site of some of the fiercest fighting during the American Civil War’s Battle of Antietam.
  • C. Sunrise Road
    Sunrise Road is a scenic mountain roadway in Mount Rainier National Park that climbs to the Sunrise area, one of the park’s highest and most popular viewpoints.
  • D. The Highway
    "The Highway" is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury that explores the impact of distant, world-changing events on an isolated Mexican farmer living beside a remote road.
  • E. Desolation Road
    Desolation Road is a science fiction novel by Ian McDonald that follows the intertwined lives of settlers in a strange, isolated town on a terraformed Mars.
  • 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_69c688796c148190adb2f1596f595f22 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e458ad9c81908c3f492b317ce291 completed March 27, 2026, 8:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c788af20cc819084542035410aafbd completed March 28, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c78968b8588190b26afb5fe1a976db completed March 28, 2026, 7:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c78a520b4081908b4822fb55c3dab9 completed March 28, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:38 p.m.