Triple

T9268202
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Percival Lowell E222753 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Mars and Its Canals
"Mars and Its Canals" is an influential 1906 astronomy book by Percival Lowell that popularized the idea of artificial canals on Mars and helped shape early 20th-century speculation about Martian civilization.
E788734 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: Mars and Its Canals | Statement: [Percival Lowell, notableWork, Mars and Its Canals]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mars and Its Canals
Context triple: [Percival Lowell, notableWork, Mars and Its Canals]
  • A. The Mystery of Mars
    The Mystery of Mars is a science book for young readers that explores the geology, climate, and potential for life on the Red Planet.
  • B. The Mars Project
    The Mars Project is a seminal 1952 book by rocket engineer Wernher von Braun that outlines one of the earliest detailed technical plans for a human expedition to Mars.
  • C. Martians
    Martians are the technologically advanced, hostile alien invaders from H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds."
  • D. Martians
    Martians are a powerful, shape-shifting alien species from the planet Mars in DC Comics, most famously represented by the superhero Martian Manhunter.
  • E. The Second Invasion from Mars
    "The Second Invasion from Mars" is a satirical Soviet science fiction story by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky that uses an alien invasion to critique bureaucracy, conformity, and everyday life under authoritarian rule.
  • 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: Mars and Its Canals
Triple: [Percival Lowell, notableWork, Mars and Its Canals]
Generated description
"Mars and Its Canals" is an influential 1906 astronomy book by Percival Lowell that popularized the idea of artificial canals on Mars and helped shape early 20th-century speculation about Martian civilization.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mars and Its Canals
Target entity description: "Mars and Its Canals" is an influential 1906 astronomy book by Percival Lowell that popularized the idea of artificial canals on Mars and helped shape early 20th-century speculation about Martian civilization.
  • A. The Mystery of Mars
    The Mystery of Mars is a science book for young readers that explores the geology, climate, and potential for life on the Red Planet.
  • B. The Mars Project
    The Mars Project is a seminal 1952 book by rocket engineer Wernher von Braun that outlines one of the earliest detailed technical plans for a human expedition to Mars.
  • C. Martians
    Martians are the technologically advanced, hostile alien invaders from H. G. Wells’s science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds."
  • D. Martians
    Martians are a powerful, shape-shifting alien species from the planet Mars in DC Comics, most famously represented by the superhero Martian Manhunter.
  • E. The Second Invasion from Mars
    "The Second Invasion from Mars" is a satirical Soviet science fiction story by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky that uses an alien invasion to critique bureaucracy, conformity, and everyday life under authoritarian rule.
  • 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_69ca841f2e808190a64f4c31903a1332 completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd074d2d0081909f9f8db04547358e completed April 1, 2026, 11:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d09c193b548190afe79d0c84fa2bd3 completed April 4, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d09cf11e488190b61f4a61002454e6 completed April 4, 2026, 5:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d09e2450048190b5aa31507e54d6c8 completed April 4, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:33 p.m.