Triple

T8492883
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dr. Susan Calvin E201015 entity
Predicate appearsIn P795 FINISHED
Object short story "Little Lost Robot"
"Little Lost Robot" is an Isaac Asimov science fiction short story in which robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin must locate a modified robot that can circumvent the First Law of Robotics among a group of identical machines.
E737156 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: short story "Little Lost Robot" | Statement: [Dr. Susan Calvin, appearsIn, short story "Little Lost Robot"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: short story "Little Lost Robot"
Context triple: [Dr. Susan Calvin, appearsIn, short story "Little Lost Robot"]
  • A. short story "The Sentinel"
    "The Sentinel" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that explores humanity's encounter with an ancient alien artifact on the Moon, later serving as a key inspiration for the film and novel 2001: A Space Odyssey.
  • B. Three Laws of Robotics
    The Three Laws of Robotics are a set of fictional ethical rules devised by Isaac Asimov to govern the behavior of intelligent robots and prevent them from harming humans.
  • C. Arthur C. Clarke story "Guardian Angel"
    "Guardian Angel" is Arthur C. Clarke’s original novella that introduced the core premise and alien visitors later expanded into his classic science fiction novel Childhood’s End.
  • D. short story "In the Event of My Father’s Death"
    "In the Event of My Father’s Death" is a short story by Roxane Gay that appears in her collection Difficult Women, exploring themes of family, grief, and complex emotional inheritance.
  • E. The Runaway Robot
    The Runaway Robot is a mid-20th-century science fiction novel by Lester del Rey that follows the adventures of a self-aware robot companion on a distant planet.
  • 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: short story "Little Lost Robot"
Triple: [Dr. Susan Calvin, appearsIn, short story "Little Lost Robot"]
Generated description
"Little Lost Robot" is an Isaac Asimov science fiction short story in which robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin must locate a modified robot that can circumvent the First Law of Robotics among a group of identical machines.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: short story "Little Lost Robot"
Target entity description: "Little Lost Robot" is an Isaac Asimov science fiction short story in which robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin must locate a modified robot that can circumvent the First Law of Robotics among a group of identical machines.
  • A. short story "The Sentinel"
    "The Sentinel" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke that explores humanity's encounter with an ancient alien artifact on the Moon, later serving as a key inspiration for the film and novel 2001: A Space Odyssey.
  • B. Three Laws of Robotics
    The Three Laws of Robotics are a set of fictional ethical rules devised by Isaac Asimov to govern the behavior of intelligent robots and prevent them from harming humans.
  • C. Arthur C. Clarke story "Guardian Angel"
    "Guardian Angel" is Arthur C. Clarke’s original novella that introduced the core premise and alien visitors later expanded into his classic science fiction novel Childhood’s End.
  • D. short story "In the Event of My Father’s Death"
    "In the Event of My Father’s Death" is a short story by Roxane Gay that appears in her collection Difficult Women, exploring themes of family, grief, and complex emotional inheritance.
  • E. The Runaway Robot
    The Runaway Robot is a mid-20th-century science fiction novel by Lester del Rey that follows the adventures of a self-aware robot companion on a distant planet.
  • 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_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_69ce3a5c260c8190bc7012a04363d260 completed April 2, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce3ca3be5c8190844e54805e9acaeb completed April 2, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce3d4e92e88190a90ba1567c569b00 completed April 2, 2026, 9:56 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:13 p.m.