Triple

T8494127
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Weapon Shops of Isher E201051 entity
Predicate setting P1957 FINISHED
Object Isher Empire
The Isher Empire is a powerful, far-future interstellar regime in A. E. van Vogt’s science fiction universe, known for its authoritarian rule and its long-standing conflict with the independent, inviolable Weapon Shops.
E737218 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: Isher Empire | Statement: [The Weapon Shops of Isher, setting, Isher Empire]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Isher Empire
Context triple: [The Weapon Shops of Isher, setting, Isher Empire]
  • A. Rozvi Empire
    The Rozvi Empire was a powerful Shona state in south-central Africa, centered in present-day Zimbabwe, known for its military strength, stone architecture, and control of regional trade from the late 17th to 19th centuries.
  • B. Shunga Empire
    The Shunga Empire was an ancient Indian dynasty that succeeded the Maurya Empire and ruled much of northern and central India in the 2nd–1st centuries BCE.
  • C. Marota Empire
    The Marota Empire was a precolonial African state established by the Pedi people in what is now northeastern South Africa.
  • D. Hotak Empire
    The Hotak Empire was an early 18th-century Afghan state founded by the Hotak dynasty that briefly ruled large parts of present-day Afghanistan and Iran before being supplanted by the Afsharids.
  • E. Ghiscari Empire (historical)
    The Ghiscari Empire was an ancient, expansionist civilization in the world of Essos, famed for its slave-based economy, great brick cities like Old Ghis, and its long, ultimately losing struggle against the rising Valyrian Freehold.
  • 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: Isher Empire
Triple: [The Weapon Shops of Isher, setting, Isher Empire]
Generated description
The Isher Empire is a powerful, far-future interstellar regime in A. E. van Vogt’s science fiction universe, known for its authoritarian rule and its long-standing conflict with the independent, inviolable Weapon Shops.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Isher Empire
Target entity description: The Isher Empire is a powerful, far-future interstellar regime in A. E. van Vogt’s science fiction universe, known for its authoritarian rule and its long-standing conflict with the independent, inviolable Weapon Shops.
  • A. Rozvi Empire
    The Rozvi Empire was a powerful Shona state in south-central Africa, centered in present-day Zimbabwe, known for its military strength, stone architecture, and control of regional trade from the late 17th to 19th centuries.
  • B. Shunga Empire
    The Shunga Empire was an ancient Indian dynasty that succeeded the Maurya Empire and ruled much of northern and central India in the 2nd–1st centuries BCE.
  • C. Marota Empire
    The Marota Empire was a precolonial African state established by the Pedi people in what is now northeastern South Africa.
  • D. Hotak Empire
    The Hotak Empire was an early 18th-century Afghan state founded by the Hotak dynasty that briefly ruled large parts of present-day Afghanistan and Iran before being supplanted by the Afsharids.
  • E. Ghiscari Empire (historical)
    The Ghiscari Empire was an ancient, expansionist civilization in the world of Essos, famed for its slave-based economy, great brick cities like Old Ghis, and its long, ultimately losing struggle against the rising Valyrian Freehold.
  • 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_69cbe57c01f881908cb77c8c834ac08d completed March 31, 2026, 3:17 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.