Triple

T9268206
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Percival Lowell E222753 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Soul of the Far East
The Soul of the Far East is an 1888 book by American astronomer and writer Percival Lowell that offers a reflective, often romanticized study of East Asian culture and psychology, especially that of Japan.
E788738 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 Soul of the Far East | Statement: [Percival Lowell, notableWork, The Soul of the Far East]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Soul of the Far East
Context triple: [Percival Lowell, notableWork, The Soul of the Far East]
  • A. The Spirit of the East
    The Spirit of the East is a 19th-century travel and political commentary by David Urquhart that examines the culture, society, and geopolitics of the Ottoman Empire and the broader Eastern Mediterranean.
  • B. Die Völker des östlichen Asien
    Die Völker des östlichen Asien is a multi-volume ethnographic study by German anthropologist Adolf Bastian that examines the cultures, societies, and traditions of East Asian peoples.
  • C. The Wonders of the East
    The Wonders of the East is an Old English illustrated marvels text that describes fantastical peoples, creatures, and places in distant lands.
  • D. North to the Orient
    North to the Orient is a 1935 travel memoir by Anne Morrow Lindbergh recounting her pioneering survey flights with her husband Charles Lindbergh across the North Atlantic and into East Asia.
  • E. Connaissance de l’Est
    Connaissance de l’Est is a lyrical prose collection by French writer Paul Claudel, inspired by his experiences in East Asia and noted for its mystical, symbolist style.
  • 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 Soul of the Far East
Triple: [Percival Lowell, notableWork, The Soul of the Far East]
Generated description
The Soul of the Far East is an 1888 book by American astronomer and writer Percival Lowell that offers a reflective, often romanticized study of East Asian culture and psychology, especially that of Japan.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Soul of the Far East
Target entity description: The Soul of the Far East is an 1888 book by American astronomer and writer Percival Lowell that offers a reflective, often romanticized study of East Asian culture and psychology, especially that of Japan.
  • A. The Spirit of the East
    The Spirit of the East is a 19th-century travel and political commentary by David Urquhart that examines the culture, society, and geopolitics of the Ottoman Empire and the broader Eastern Mediterranean.
  • B. Die Völker des östlichen Asien
    Die Völker des östlichen Asien is a multi-volume ethnographic study by German anthropologist Adolf Bastian that examines the cultures, societies, and traditions of East Asian peoples.
  • C. The Wonders of the East
    The Wonders of the East is an Old English illustrated marvels text that describes fantastical peoples, creatures, and places in distant lands.
  • D. North to the Orient
    North to the Orient is a 1935 travel memoir by Anne Morrow Lindbergh recounting her pioneering survey flights with her husband Charles Lindbergh across the North Atlantic and into East Asia.
  • E. Connaissance de l’Est
    Connaissance de l’Est is a lyrical prose collection by French writer Paul Claudel, inspired by his experiences in East Asia and noted for its mystical, symbolist style.
  • 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.