Triple

T16035477
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Farthest Shore E388959 entity
Predicate featuresCharacter P626 FINISHED
Object Cob
Cob is the dark sorcerer and primary antagonist in Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea novel "The Farthest Shore," whose pursuit of immortality threatens the balance of the world.
 E1190619 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: Cob | Statement: [The Farthest Shore, featuresCharacter, Cob]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cob
Context triple: [The Farthest Shore, featuresCharacter, Cob]
  • A. COOB
    COOB is the namesake associated with Cobi, the official mascot of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.
  • B. Kofo
    Kofo is a music producer known for working on Wizkid’s album "More Love, Less Ego."
  • C. Kobaton
    Kobaton is the official bird-themed mascot character of Japan’s Saitama Prefecture, designed to promote the region and appear at local events and campaigns.
  • D. Coe
    Coe is a surname most prominently associated with Sebastian Coe, the British middle-distance running champion and influential sports administrator.
  • E. Cobi
    Cobi is the cubist-style Catalan sheepdog character that served as the official mascot of the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.
  • 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: Cob
Triple: [The Farthest Shore, featuresCharacter, Cob]
Generated description
Cob is the dark sorcerer and primary antagonist in Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea novel "The Farthest Shore," whose pursuit of immortality threatens the balance of the world.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Cob
Target entity description: Cob is the dark sorcerer and primary antagonist in Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea novel "The Farthest Shore," whose pursuit of immortality threatens the balance of the world.
  • A. COOB
    COOB is the namesake associated with Cobi, the official mascot of the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games.
  • B. Kofo
    Kofo is a music producer known for working on Wizkid’s album "More Love, Less Ego."
  • C. Kobaton
    Kobaton is the official bird-themed mascot character of Japan’s Saitama Prefecture, designed to promote the region and appear at local events and campaigns.
  • D. Coe
    Coe is a surname most prominently associated with Sebastian Coe, the British middle-distance running champion and influential sports administrator.
  • E. Cobi
    Cobi is the cubist-style Catalan sheepdog character that served as the official mascot of the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.
  • 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_69d86dada3808190825d5f80d72fbe88 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e1833b84608190887dafda5d081dc0 completed April 17, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffdbd3a1248190ad055892cebde5f0 completed May 10, 2026, 1:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffdc5fd30c8190aaf66482f24285b4 completed May 10, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffdd0392e08190af42a0cdc5dd4c1f completed May 10, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:56 a.m.