Triple

T900788
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Arthur C. Clarke E19440 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The City and the Stars
The City and the Stars is a classic science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of immortality, memory, and the cyclical nature of civilization in a far-future utopian city.
E109300 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 City and the Stars | Statement: [Arthur C. Clarke, notableWork, The City and the Stars]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The City and the Stars
Context triple: [Arthur C. Clarke, notableWork, The City and the Stars]
  • A. Childhood's End
    Childhood's End is a landmark science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores humanity's transcendence and the profound consequences of a seemingly benevolent alien intervention.
  • B. Ringworld
    Ringworld is a science fiction megastructure concept, popularized by Larry Niven’s novel of the same name, depicting a vast artificial ring encircling a star to provide an enormous habitable surface area.
  • C. The Martian Chronicles
    The Martian Chronicles is a classic science fiction collection of interconnected stories depicting human colonization of Mars and its consequences, written by Ray Bradbury.
  • D. The Vanishing Face of Gaia
    The Vanishing Face of Gaia is a 2009 environmental science book by James Lovelock in which he warns of imminent, severe climate change and argues that humanity must adapt to survive on a self-regulating Earth.
  • E. The Gods Themselves
    The Gods Themselves is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov that explores parallel universes, alien intelligences, and the consequences of tampering with fundamental physical laws.
  • 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 City and the Stars
Triple: [Arthur C. Clarke, notableWork, The City and the Stars]
Generated description
The City and the Stars is a classic science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of immortality, memory, and the cyclical nature of civilization in a far-future utopian city.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The City and the Stars
Target entity description: The City and the Stars is a classic science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of immortality, memory, and the cyclical nature of civilization in a far-future utopian city.
  • A. Childhood's End
    Childhood's End is a landmark science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores humanity's transcendence and the profound consequences of a seemingly benevolent alien intervention.
  • B. Ringworld
    Ringworld is a science fiction megastructure concept, popularized by Larry Niven’s novel of the same name, depicting a vast artificial ring encircling a star to provide an enormous habitable surface area.
  • C. The Martian Chronicles
    The Martian Chronicles is a classic science fiction collection of interconnected stories depicting human colonization of Mars and its consequences, written by Ray Bradbury.
  • D. The Vanishing Face of Gaia
    The Vanishing Face of Gaia is a 2009 environmental science book by James Lovelock in which he warns of imminent, severe climate change and argues that humanity must adapt to survive on a self-regulating Earth.
  • E. The Gods Themselves
    The Gods Themselves is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov that explores parallel universes, alien intelligences, and the consequences of tampering with fundamental physical laws.
  • 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_69a4939e889c8190ac148b3ac1a7f90b completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ad42ecac81909f8bc554d2fe0363 completed March 1, 2026, 9:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7ee02a21c819088e6a137ea306efd completed March 4, 2026, 8:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7eebc724c8190a364782ec8e672e0 completed March 4, 2026, 8:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7ef2ed2c881909dc1d2d6fb39805a completed March 4, 2026, 8:37 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.