Triple

T8492117
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Frederik Pohl E200996 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Merchant Princes E200996 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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 Merchant Princes | Statement: [Frederik Pohl, notableWork, The Merchant Princes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Merchant Princes
Context triple: [Frederik Pohl, notableWork, The Merchant Princes]
  • A. The Merchant Princes chosen
    The Merchant Princes is a science fiction story by Frederik Pohl that explores themes of commerce, power, and human ambition in a futuristic setting.
  • B. Merchant Princes
    Merchant Princes is a science fiction novel series by Charles Stross that follows a woman who discovers she can travel between parallel worlds and becomes embroiled in interdimensional politics, crime, and intrigue.
  • C. Lord of Trade
    The Lord of Trade was a British government office responsible for overseeing colonial and commercial affairs, particularly through the Board of Trade, during the 17th to 19th centuries.
  • D. Minalan
    Minalan is a central fantasy protagonist, best known as a powerful yet reluctant wizard whose story unfolds in the Spellmonger series.
  • E. Merchant Prince
    Merchant Prince is a prestigious commercial title in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation universe, denoting a powerful trader who wields both economic and political influence across the galaxy.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69ca831ee390819095fae73400bbfafc completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe55cf5dc81908cad31ac53e15b46 completed March 31, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce6d120f8c819088a1d9b23b621939 completed April 2, 2026, 1:20 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:13 p.m.