Triple

T16035972
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject City of Illusions E388969 entity
Predicate hasFictionalSpecies P15758 FINISHED
Object Shing
The Shing are a telepathic, deceitful alien species who serve as the primary antagonists in Ursula K. Le Guin’s science fiction novel "City of Illusions."
 E1190663 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: Shing | Statement: [City of Illusions, hasFictionalSpecies, Shing]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shing
Context triple: [City of Illusions, hasFictionalSpecies, Shing]
  • A. Shin
    Shin is a fictional character voiced by American actress and singer Ashley Johnson, known for her versatile roles in animation and video games.
  • B. Shin
    Shin is a common Japanese given name element that often conveys meanings like “truth,” “new,” or “heart,” depending on the kanji used.
  • C. Shin
    Shin is the ethnonym for the Shina people, an Indo-Aryan ethnic group primarily inhabiting the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan and surrounding areas.
  • D. Shou
    Shou is the personal name of King Zhou of Shang, the last ruler of China’s Shang dynasty, often depicted in tradition as a tyrannical and decadent monarch.
  • E. Shingu
    Shingu is a coastal city in Japan known for its historic Kumano Hongu Taisha shrine and its role as a gateway to the sacred Kumano Kodo pilgrimage routes.
  • 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: Shing
Triple: [City of Illusions, hasFictionalSpecies, Shing]
Generated description
The Shing are a telepathic, deceitful alien species who serve as the primary antagonists in Ursula K. Le Guin’s science fiction novel "City of Illusions."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Shing
Target entity description: The Shing are a telepathic, deceitful alien species who serve as the primary antagonists in Ursula K. Le Guin’s science fiction novel "City of Illusions."
  • A. Shin
    Shin is a fictional character voiced by American actress and singer Ashley Johnson, known for her versatile roles in animation and video games.
  • B. Shin
    Shin is a common Japanese given name element that often conveys meanings like “truth,” “new,” or “heart,” depending on the kanji used.
  • C. Shin
    Shin is the ethnonym for the Shina people, an Indo-Aryan ethnic group primarily inhabiting the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan and surrounding areas.
  • D. Shou
    Shou is the personal name of King Zhou of Shang, the last ruler of China’s Shang dynasty, often depicted in tradition as a tyrannical and decadent monarch.
  • E. Shingu
    Shingu is a coastal city in Japan known for its historic Kumano Hongu Taisha shrine and its role as a gateway to the sacred Kumano Kodo pilgrimage routes.
  • 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_69e1833ca66881909475fac23e6fbf86 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.