Triple

T20136628
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject A Light in the Attic E491040 entity
Predicate hasPoem P21160 FINISHED
Object "The Homework Machine"
"The Homework Machine" is a humorous children's poem by Shel Silverstein about a too-good-to-be-true device that does a student's homework for them, with predictably troublesome results.
E1413830 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 Homework Machine" | Statement: [A Light in the Attic, hasPoem, "The Homework Machine"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: "The Homework Machine"
Context triple: [A Light in the Attic, hasPoem, "The Homework Machine"]
  • A. The Machine
    The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
  • B. The Machine
    The Machine is a powerful, clandestine artificial superintelligence from the TV series "Person of Interest" that predicts violent crimes by analyzing global surveillance data.
  • C. The Machine
    The Machine is the nickname of Shelly Levene, a once-legendary but now struggling real estate salesman in David Mamet’s play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross."
  • D. The Machine
    The Machine is the sadistic, masked pornographer and primary antagonist in the 1999 crime thriller film "8MM."
  • E. The Machine
    The Machine is a 2013 British science fiction thriller film about a sentient android created as a military weapon, directed by Caradog W. James.
  • 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 Homework Machine"
Triple: [A Light in the Attic, hasPoem, "The Homework Machine"]
Generated description
"The Homework Machine" is a humorous children's poem by Shel Silverstein about a too-good-to-be-true device that does a student's homework for them, with predictably troublesome results.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: "The Homework Machine"
Target entity description: "The Homework Machine" is a humorous children's poem by Shel Silverstein about a too-good-to-be-true device that does a student's homework for them, with predictably troublesome results.
  • A. The Machine
    The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
  • B. The Machine
    The Machine is a powerful, clandestine artificial superintelligence from the TV series "Person of Interest" that predicts violent crimes by analyzing global surveillance data.
  • C. The Machine
    The Machine is the nickname of Shelly Levene, a once-legendary but now struggling real estate salesman in David Mamet’s play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross."
  • D. The Machine
    The Machine is the sadistic, masked pornographer and primary antagonist in the 1999 crime thriller film "8MM."
  • E. The Machine
    The Machine is a 2013 British science fiction thriller film about a sentient android created as a military weapon, directed by Caradog W. James.
  • 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_69da62651a0c8190a3e05e95e056a66b completed April 11, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e66767ba3881909c2bcb74a986bd29 completed April 20, 2026, 5:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a082de255b08190b50a3cb5e4da4973 completed May 16, 2026, 8:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a082ef2cf208190aea9cd29b15b35dd completed May 16, 2026, 8:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0830ccfdd881909cbf1c3fd2342821 completed May 16, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:32 p.m.