Triple

T16035669
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Dispossessed E388963 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Shevek
Shevek is a brilliant physicist and philosophical anarchist from Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel *The Dispossessed*, whose life and work explore the tensions between freedom, society, and revolutionary change.
E1190635 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: Shevek | Statement: [The Dispossessed, mainCharacter, Shevek]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shevek
Context triple: [The Dispossessed, mainCharacter, Shevek]
  • A. Babel-17
    Babel-17 is a 1966 science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany that explores the power of language to shape thought and reality through the story of a poet-linguist deciphering an alien code.
  • B. The Left Hand of Darkness
    The Left Hand of Darkness is a landmark science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin that explores themes of gender, politics, and culture on a distant, ambisexual world.
  • C. Consider Phlebas
    Consider Phlebas is a science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks that introduces his acclaimed Culture series, depicting a vast interstellar conflict between a post-scarcity utopian civilization and its enemies.
  • D. The Dosadi Experiment
    The Dosadi Experiment is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert that explores themes of social engineering, oppression, and survival on a harsh, isolated planet.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Shevek
Triple: [The Dispossessed, mainCharacter, Shevek]
Generated description
Shevek is a brilliant physicist and philosophical anarchist from Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel *The Dispossessed*, whose life and work explore the tensions between freedom, society, and revolutionary change.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shevek
Target entity description: Shevek is a brilliant physicist and philosophical anarchist from Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel *The Dispossessed*, whose life and work explore the tensions between freedom, society, and revolutionary change.
  • A. Babel-17
    Babel-17 is a 1966 science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany that explores the power of language to shape thought and reality through the story of a poet-linguist deciphering an alien code.
  • B. The Left Hand of Darkness
    The Left Hand of Darkness is a landmark science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin that explores themes of gender, politics, and culture on a distant, ambisexual world.
  • C. Consider Phlebas
    Consider Phlebas is a science fiction novel by Iain M. Banks that introduces his acclaimed Culture series, depicting a vast interstellar conflict between a post-scarcity utopian civilization and its enemies.
  • D. The Dosadi Experiment
    The Dosadi Experiment is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert that explores themes of social engineering, oppression, and survival on a harsh, isolated planet.
  • E. 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.
  • 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.