Triple

T8493149
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation E201021 entity
Predicate governsRobotsBy P38227 FINISHED
Object Third Law of Robotics
The Third Law of Robotics is one of Isaac Asimov’s fictional ethical rules for robots, requiring them to protect their own existence as long as this does not conflict with higher-priority laws about obeying humans and preventing harm.
 E754391 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: Third Law of Robotics | Statement: [U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation, governsRobotsBy, Third Law of Robotics]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Third Law of Robotics
Context triple: [U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation, governsRobotsBy, Third Law of Robotics]
  • A. Second Law of Robotics
    The Second Law of Robotics is one of Isaac Asimov’s fictional ethical rules for robots, requiring them to obey human orders unless such orders conflict with the First Law.
  • B. Zeroth Law of Robotics
    The Zeroth Law of Robotics is an additional principle introduced by Isaac Asimov that prioritizes the protection of humanity as a whole above the safety or obedience of individual humans.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Clarke's three laws
    Clarke's three laws are a set of aphorisms about science and technology, most famously stating that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
  • E. The New Laws of Robotics (essay)
    "The New Laws of Robotics" is an essay by Isaac Asimov that revisits and updates his famous Three Laws of Robotics to address more complex ethical and technological issues in human-robot interaction.
  • 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: Third Law of Robotics
Triple: [U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation, governsRobotsBy, Third Law of Robotics]
Generated description
The Third Law of Robotics is one of Isaac Asimov’s fictional ethical rules for robots, requiring them to protect their own existence as long as this does not conflict with higher-priority laws about obeying humans and preventing harm.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Third Law of Robotics
Target entity description: The Third Law of Robotics is one of Isaac Asimov’s fictional ethical rules for robots, requiring them to protect their own existence as long as this does not conflict with higher-priority laws about obeying humans and preventing harm.
  • A. Second Law of Robotics
    The Second Law of Robotics is one of Isaac Asimov’s fictional ethical rules for robots, requiring them to obey human orders unless such orders conflict with the First Law.
  • B. Zeroth Law of Robotics
    The Zeroth Law of Robotics is an additional principle introduced by Isaac Asimov that prioritizes the protection of humanity as a whole above the safety or obedience of individual humans.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Clarke's three laws
    Clarke's three laws are a set of aphorisms about science and technology, most famously stating that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
  • E. The New Laws of Robotics (essay)
    "The New Laws of Robotics" is an essay by Isaac Asimov that revisits and updates his famous Three Laws of Robotics to address more complex ethical and technological issues in human-robot interaction.
  • 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_69cc4578d9c8819096b3853d01c3ec11 completed March 31, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf423bade4819094204d98303093c8 completed April 3, 2026, 4:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf441bd6008190b45027a3928ea60b completed April 3, 2026, 4:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf449ec15881908e95a60bc329db35 completed April 3, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:13 p.m.