Triple

T19100459
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nerilka's Story E467516 entity
Predicate centralConflict P5022 FINISHED
Object plague on Pern
The plague on Pern is a devastating epidemic in Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern universe that threatens the planet’s human population and drives the desperate search for a cure.
E1358346 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: plague on Pern | Statement: [Nerilka's Story, centralConflict, plague on Pern]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: plague on Pern
Context triple: [Nerilka's Story, centralConflict, plague on Pern]
  • A. Dragonriders of Pern
    Dragonriders of Pern is a long-running science fantasy book series by Anne McCaffrey (later continued by her son Todd) that follows telepathically bonded dragonriders defending the planet Pern from a deadly extraterrestrial threat called Thread.
  • B. The Skies of Pern
    The Skies of Pern is a science fantasy novel by Anne McCaffrey set in her Dragonriders of Pern universe, continuing the story of dragonriders as they face new social and technological changes on their world.
  • C. The Renegades of Pern
    The Renegades of Pern is a science fantasy novel by Anne McCaffrey that explores the lives of outcasts and holdless people on the planet Pern, running parallel to and intersecting with events from earlier Dragonriders of Pern books.
  • D. All the Weyrs of Pern
    All the Weyrs of Pern is a science fiction novel by Anne McCaffrey in the Dragonriders of Pern series, focusing on a pivotal technological and social turning point for the dragonriders’ world.
  • E. Southern Continent on Pern
    The Southern Continent on Pern is a largely unexplored, warmer landmass in Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series, known for its ancient ruins, hidden dangers, and role as a frontier for new settlements and discoveries.
  • 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: plague on Pern
Triple: [Nerilka's Story, centralConflict, plague on Pern]
Generated description
The plague on Pern is a devastating epidemic in Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern universe that threatens the planet’s human population and drives the desperate search for a cure.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: plague on Pern
Target entity description: The plague on Pern is a devastating epidemic in Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern universe that threatens the planet’s human population and drives the desperate search for a cure.
  • A. Dragonriders of Pern
    Dragonriders of Pern is a long-running science fantasy book series by Anne McCaffrey (later continued by her son Todd) that follows telepathically bonded dragonriders defending the planet Pern from a deadly extraterrestrial threat called Thread.
  • B. The Skies of Pern
    The Skies of Pern is a science fantasy novel by Anne McCaffrey set in her Dragonriders of Pern universe, continuing the story of dragonriders as they face new social and technological changes on their world.
  • C. The Renegades of Pern
    The Renegades of Pern is a science fantasy novel by Anne McCaffrey that explores the lives of outcasts and holdless people on the planet Pern, running parallel to and intersecting with events from earlier Dragonriders of Pern books.
  • D. All the Weyrs of Pern
    All the Weyrs of Pern is a science fiction novel by Anne McCaffrey in the Dragonriders of Pern series, focusing on a pivotal technological and social turning point for the dragonriders’ world.
  • E. Southern Continent on Pern
    The Southern Continent on Pern is a largely unexplored, warmer landmass in Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series, known for its ancient ruins, hidden dangers, and role as a frontier for new settlements and discoveries.
  • 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_69d8dd05ac4c8190b1967d8f97f3fb2f completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5e36d279081908aeb472cd740c302 completed April 20, 2026, 8:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05dd9b4e0c8190b235b0d7a068a1e7 completed May 14, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05dfcf14788190a75298641ba20e0e completed May 14, 2026, 2:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05e10ae8188190a9dce95fa838ff7f completed May 14, 2026, 2:49 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:04 p.m.