Triple

T1799324
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Foundation E39678 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Salvor Hardin
Salvor Hardin is a key political leader and first mayor of Terminus in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, known for his pragmatic, non-military approach to resolving crises.
E200988 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: Salvor Hardin | Statement: [Foundation, mainCharacter, Salvor Hardin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Salvor Hardin
Context triple: [Foundation, mainCharacter, Salvor Hardin]
  • A. Lando Calrissian
    Lando Calrissian is a charming, smooth-talking gambler, smuggler, and later Rebel leader in the Star Wars universe, known for his roguish charisma and complex loyalties.
  • B. Commander Judd
    Commander Judd is a powerful and fanatical high-ranking official of Gilead’s theocratic regime in Margaret Atwood’s novel *The Testaments*.
  • C. Lt. Tragg
    Lt. Tragg is a fictional homicide detective in the Perry Mason series, known as the persistent but fair police foil to defense attorney Perry Mason.
  • D. Lt. Cmdr. Bortus
    Lt. Cmdr. Bortus is a stoic, mustachioed Moclan officer serving as second officer and chief of security aboard the exploratory spaceship in the sci-fi comedy-drama series "The Orville."
  • E. Jonathan Archer
    Jonathan Archer is the pioneering Starfleet captain of the starship Enterprise NX-01 in the Star Trek universe, known for leading humanity’s earliest deep-space exploration missions.
  • 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: Salvor Hardin
Triple: [Foundation, mainCharacter, Salvor Hardin]
Generated description
Salvor Hardin is a key political leader and first mayor of Terminus in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, known for his pragmatic, non-military approach to resolving crises.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Salvor Hardin
Target entity description: Salvor Hardin is a key political leader and first mayor of Terminus in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, known for his pragmatic, non-military approach to resolving crises.
  • A. Lando Calrissian
    Lando Calrissian is a charming, smooth-talking gambler, smuggler, and later Rebel leader in the Star Wars universe, known for his roguish charisma and complex loyalties.
  • B. Commander Judd
    Commander Judd is a powerful and fanatical high-ranking official of Gilead’s theocratic regime in Margaret Atwood’s novel *The Testaments*.
  • C. Lt. Tragg
    Lt. Tragg is a fictional homicide detective in the Perry Mason series, known as the persistent but fair police foil to defense attorney Perry Mason.
  • D. Lt. Cmdr. Bortus
    Lt. Cmdr. Bortus is a stoic, mustachioed Moclan officer serving as second officer and chief of security aboard the exploratory spaceship in the sci-fi comedy-drama series "The Orville."
  • E. Jonathan Archer
    Jonathan Archer is the pioneering Starfleet captain of the starship Enterprise NX-01 in the Star Trek universe, known for leading humanity’s earliest deep-space exploration missions.
  • 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_69a88632aa588190ba3978fde0db5bbd completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa6569b2e48190a56cf48160796d2e completed March 6, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adb5d8da888190a88f3bd8036e19f4 completed March 8, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adb69c149081908b5b819c068a1ce2 completed March 8, 2026, 5:49 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adb8be528c819092a5e22b099fc2a0 completed March 8, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.