Triple

T19707018
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gene Wolfe E473242 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Book of the Short Sun
The Book of the Short Sun is a science fantasy trilogy by Gene Wolfe that concludes his Solar Cycle with a complex, layered narrative blending space travel, memory, and identity.
E1393892 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: The Book of the Short Sun | Statement: [Gene Wolfe, notableWork, The Book of the Short Sun]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Book of the Short Sun
Context triple: [Gene Wolfe, notableWork, The Book of the Short Sun]
  • A. The Book of the Long Sun
    The Book of the Long Sun is a science fantasy series by Gene Wolfe that follows the priest Patera Silk amid political and religious upheaval in the vast generation starship-city called the Whorl.
  • B. The Urth of the New Sun
    The Urth of the New Sun is a science fantasy novel by Gene Wolfe that serves as a coda to his acclaimed Book of the New Sun series, continuing the story of Severian in a far-future, dying Earth.
  • C. Across the Sea of Suns
    Across the Sea of Suns is a hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that follows humanity’s first deep-space expedition and its encounter with mysterious alien civilizations.
  • D. The Shadowed Sun
    The Shadowed Sun is a fantasy novel by N. K. Jemisin that continues her Dreamblood duology with a richly imagined world, political intrigue, and explorations of power, faith, and healing.
  • E. The Book of the New Sun
    The Book of the New Sun is a critically acclaimed, densely layered science fantasy series by Gene Wolfe, renowned for its unreliable narration, rich symbolism, and intricate world-building.
  • 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: The Book of the Short Sun
Triple: [Gene Wolfe, notableWork, The Book of the Short Sun]
Generated description
The Book of the Short Sun is a science fantasy trilogy by Gene Wolfe that concludes his Solar Cycle with a complex, layered narrative blending space travel, memory, and identity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Book of the Short Sun
Target entity description: The Book of the Short Sun is a science fantasy trilogy by Gene Wolfe that concludes his Solar Cycle with a complex, layered narrative blending space travel, memory, and identity.
  • A. The Book of the Long Sun
    The Book of the Long Sun is a science fantasy series by Gene Wolfe that follows the priest Patera Silk amid political and religious upheaval in the vast generation starship-city called the Whorl.
  • B. The Urth of the New Sun
    The Urth of the New Sun is a science fantasy novel by Gene Wolfe that serves as a coda to his acclaimed Book of the New Sun series, continuing the story of Severian in a far-future, dying Earth.
  • C. Across the Sea of Suns
    Across the Sea of Suns is a hard science fiction novel by Gregory Benford that follows humanity’s first deep-space expedition and its encounter with mysterious alien civilizations.
  • D. The Shadowed Sun
    The Shadowed Sun is a fantasy novel by N. K. Jemisin that continues her Dreamblood duology with a richly imagined world, political intrigue, and explorations of power, faith, and healing.
  • E. The Book of the New Sun
    The Book of the New Sun is a critically acclaimed, densely layered science fantasy series by Gene Wolfe, renowned for its unreliable narration, rich symbolism, and intricate world-building.
  • 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_69d8e516dd048190a0b6c93ea3e71f58 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e642bb5cd4819090e4c62bd74c4324 completed April 20, 2026, 3:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07bd58e3548190a9bd00e9ca369108 completed May 16, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07be323d8c819091566255921e4d4d completed May 16, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07bef941a08190bd4b1958afe199fa completed May 16, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:46 p.m.