Triple

T13052154
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Apple (TOS episode) E327472 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Vaal
Vaal is a powerful, god-like computer entity that controls a primitive society in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Apple."
E1072482 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: Vaal | Statement: [The Apple (TOS episode), featuresCharacter, Vaal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vaal
Context triple: [The Apple (TOS episode), featuresCharacter, Vaal]
  • A. Vaal River
    The Vaal River is one of South Africa’s major rivers, forming part of the border of Gauteng and serving as a key source of water for industry, agriculture, and urban areas.
  • B. Vaalwater
    Vaalwater is a small rural town in South Africa’s Limpopo province, serving as a key gateway and service hub for the surrounding Waterberg biosphere and game reserves.
  • C. Blyde River
    The Blyde River is a major river in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province, renowned for carving the dramatic Blyde River Canyon, one of the largest and most scenic canyons in the world.
  • D. Vaalharts River
    The Vaalharts River is a smaller watercourse in South Africa that feeds into the Vaal River and supports the surrounding agricultural region.
  • E. Gariep River
    The Gariep River, more widely known as the Orange River, is one of southern Africa’s longest and most important rivers, flowing westward across South Africa to the Atlantic Ocean.
  • 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: Vaal
Triple: [The Apple (TOS episode), featuresCharacter, Vaal]
Generated description
Vaal is a powerful, god-like computer entity that controls a primitive society in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Apple."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Vaal
Target entity description: Vaal is a powerful, god-like computer entity that controls a primitive society in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Apple."
  • A. Vaal River
    The Vaal River is one of South Africa’s major rivers, forming part of the border of Gauteng and serving as a key source of water for industry, agriculture, and urban areas.
  • B. Vaalwater
    Vaalwater is a small rural town in South Africa’s Limpopo province, serving as a key gateway and service hub for the surrounding Waterberg biosphere and game reserves.
  • C. Blyde River
    The Blyde River is a major river in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province, renowned for carving the dramatic Blyde River Canyon, one of the largest and most scenic canyons in the world.
  • D. Vaalharts River
    The Vaalharts River is a smaller watercourse in South Africa that feeds into the Vaal River and supports the surrounding agricultural region.
  • E. Gariep River
    The Gariep River, more widely known as the Orange River, is one of southern Africa’s longest and most important rivers, flowing westward across South Africa to the Atlantic Ocean.
  • 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_69d8076e64308190904fb5c93517c901 completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d980b98fa081908cfa92116799e874 completed April 10, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fba1af38248190a85d0fa3a26c3d08 completed May 6, 2026, 8:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fba7f116608190b664d0dc8027af38 completed May 6, 2026, 8:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fba8fe11c881908662d8e8e1720ea4 completed May 6, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 8:57 p.m.