Triple

T8656635
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Torgny Lindgren E205435 entity
Predicate notable work P4 FINISHED
Object The Way of a Serpent
The Way of a Serpent is a dark, allegorical novel by Swedish author Torgny Lindgren that portrays the brutal power dynamics and moral decay within a poor rural community.
E748717 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 Way of a Serpent | Statement: [Torgny Lindgren, notable work, The Way of a Serpent]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Way of a Serpent
Context triple: [Torgny Lindgren, notable work, The Way of a Serpent]
  • A. The Serpent Brotherhood
    The Serpent Brotherhood is a secretive, villainous organization in *The Librarian* franchise that seeks to obtain and exploit powerful magical artifacts for its own gain.
  • B. Serpent’s Mouth
    Serpent’s Mouth is a narrow strait between Trinidad and Venezuela that forms the southern entrance to the Gulf of Paria from the Atlantic Ocean.
  • C. Tongues of Serpents
    Tongues of Serpents is a historical fantasy novel in Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series, following dragon captain William Laurence’s exile and adventures in colonial Australia.
  • D. The Serpent and the Moon
    The Serpent and the Moon is a historical biography by Princess Michael of Kent that explores the love triangle between King Henri II of France, his wife Catherine de’ Medici, and his mistress Diane de Poitiers.
  • E. She of the Serpent Skirt
    She of the Serpent Skirt is an epithet for Coatlicue, the Aztec earth and fertility goddess associated with creation, destruction, and the cycle of life and death.
  • 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 Way of a Serpent
Triple: [Torgny Lindgren, notable work, The Way of a Serpent]
Generated description
The Way of a Serpent is a dark, allegorical novel by Swedish author Torgny Lindgren that portrays the brutal power dynamics and moral decay within a poor rural community.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Way of a Serpent
Target entity description: The Way of a Serpent is a dark, allegorical novel by Swedish author Torgny Lindgren that portrays the brutal power dynamics and moral decay within a poor rural community.
  • A. The Serpent Brotherhood
    The Serpent Brotherhood is a secretive, villainous organization in *The Librarian* franchise that seeks to obtain and exploit powerful magical artifacts for its own gain.
  • B. Serpent’s Mouth
    Serpent’s Mouth is a narrow strait between Trinidad and Venezuela that forms the southern entrance to the Gulf of Paria from the Atlantic Ocean.
  • C. Tongues of Serpents
    Tongues of Serpents is a historical fantasy novel in Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series, following dragon captain William Laurence’s exile and adventures in colonial Australia.
  • D. The Serpent and the Moon
    The Serpent and the Moon is a historical biography by Princess Michael of Kent that explores the love triangle between King Henri II of France, his wife Catherine de’ Medici, and his mistress Diane de Poitiers.
  • E. She of the Serpent Skirt
    She of the Serpent Skirt is an epithet for Coatlicue, the Aztec earth and fertility goddess associated with creation, destruction, and the cycle of life and death.
  • 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_69ca8350897c819086cde7596fbe5fe7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc484569788190aa41395854684e6f completed March 31, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cecce40c248190b4f2b21a1ecde80b completed April 2, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cece8c4bdc8190988990c675f50f86 completed April 2, 2026, 8:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cecf3a0e78819082cc7c43eceae309 completed April 2, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:30 p.m.