Triple

T19583190
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tunnel in the Sky E490045 entity
Predicate mainCharacter P1183 FINISHED
Object Grant Cowper
Grant Cowper is the protagonist of Robert A. Heinlein’s science fiction novel "Tunnel in the Sky," a student who must survive a deadly interplanetary survival test gone wrong.
E1385747 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: Grant Cowper | Statement: [Tunnel in the Sky, mainCharacter, Grant Cowper]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Grant Cowper
Context triple: [Tunnel in the Sky, mainCharacter, Grant Cowper]
  • A. William Couper
    William Couper is a name shared by several notable historical figures, including a Scottish bishop and an American sculptor known for his works in marble.
  • B. Edward Bancroft
    Edward Bancroft was an 18th-century American-born physician, scientist, and double agent who secretly spied for Britain while serving as secretary to the American commissioners in Paris during the Revolutionary War.
  • C. Archibald Couper
    Archibald Couper was a 19th-century Scottish chemist known for independently developing an early structural theory of organic chemistry, including the concept of carbon’s tetravalency.
  • D. William Gooch
    William Gooch was a colonial-era British administrator who served as lieutenant governor of Virginia and was influential enough that Goochland County was named in his honor.
  • E. William Jayne
    William Jayne was an American physician and politician who became the inaugural governor of Dakota Territory during the Civil War era.
  • 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: Grant Cowper
Triple: [Tunnel in the Sky, mainCharacter, Grant Cowper]
Generated description
Grant Cowper is the protagonist of Robert A. Heinlein’s science fiction novel "Tunnel in the Sky," a student who must survive a deadly interplanetary survival test gone wrong.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Grant Cowper
Target entity description: Grant Cowper is the protagonist of Robert A. Heinlein’s science fiction novel "Tunnel in the Sky," a student who must survive a deadly interplanetary survival test gone wrong.
  • A. William Couper
    William Couper is a name shared by several notable historical figures, including a Scottish bishop and an American sculptor known for his works in marble.
  • B. Edward Bancroft
    Edward Bancroft was an 18th-century American-born physician, scientist, and double agent who secretly spied for Britain while serving as secretary to the American commissioners in Paris during the Revolutionary War.
  • C. Archibald Couper
    Archibald Couper was a 19th-century Scottish chemist known for independently developing an early structural theory of organic chemistry, including the concept of carbon’s tetravalency.
  • D. William Gooch
    William Gooch was a colonial-era British administrator who served as lieutenant governor of Virginia and was influential enough that Goochland County was named in his honor.
  • E. William Jayne
    William Jayne was an American physician and politician who became the inaugural governor of Dakota Territory during the Civil War era.
  • 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_69d8e8dd9374819098e36349b3211663 completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6404f34b081908aeb9cc9a5ddf539 completed April 20, 2026, 3:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a075f0f48b88190874f8cada3ed053d completed May 15, 2026, 5:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07601bb12c81909faab959182b1863 completed May 15, 2026, 6:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07613541688190821fd97e069691a5 completed May 15, 2026, 6:08 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:42 p.m.