Triple

T21633021
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories E533880 entity
Predicate notableStory P7331 FINISHED
Object The Man Who Invented the Calendar
"The Man Who Invented the Calendar" is a short story by Neal Stephenson that blends speculative fiction and intellectual playfulness, featured in his collection *One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories*.
E1494284 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 Man Who Invented the Calendar | Statement: [One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories, notableStory, The Man Who Invented the Calendar]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Man Who Invented the Calendar
Context triple: [One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories, notableStory, The Man Who Invented the Calendar]
  • A. The New Calendar of Great Men
    The New Calendar of Great Men is a biographical and philosophical compendium by positivist thinker Frederic Harrison that profiles influential historical figures as moral and intellectual exemplars.
  • B. The Calendar Hung Itself...
    "The Calendar Hung Itself..." is a dark, emotionally intense song by Bright Eyes that blends lo-fi indie rock with confessional lyrics about obsession, heartbreak, and betrayal.
  • C. The People’s Almanac
    The People’s Almanac is a bestselling reference book series created by Irving Wallace and collaborators, known for its eclectic collection of unusual facts, historical curiosities, and offbeat information not typically found in standard almanacs.
  • D. A Short History of the World
    A Short History of the World is a concise, popular history book by H. G. Wells that surveys human history from prehistoric times to the modern era.
  • E. The Daily Universal Register
    The Daily Universal Register was the original title of the British newspaper that later became known as The Times of London.
  • 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 Man Who Invented the Calendar
Triple: [One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories, notableStory, The Man Who Invented the Calendar]
Generated description
"The Man Who Invented the Calendar" is a short story by Neal Stephenson that blends speculative fiction and intellectual playfulness, featured in his collection *One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Man Who Invented the Calendar
Target entity description: "The Man Who Invented the Calendar" is a short story by Neal Stephenson that blends speculative fiction and intellectual playfulness, featured in his collection *One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories*.
  • A. The New Calendar of Great Men
    The New Calendar of Great Men is a biographical and philosophical compendium by positivist thinker Frederic Harrison that profiles influential historical figures as moral and intellectual exemplars.
  • B. The Calendar Hung Itself...
    "The Calendar Hung Itself..." is a dark, emotionally intense song by Bright Eyes that blends lo-fi indie rock with confessional lyrics about obsession, heartbreak, and betrayal.
  • C. The People’s Almanac
    The People’s Almanac is a bestselling reference book series created by Irving Wallace and collaborators, known for its eclectic collection of unusual facts, historical curiosities, and offbeat information not typically found in standard almanacs.
  • D. A Short History of the World
    A Short History of the World is a concise, popular history book by H. G. Wells that surveys human history from prehistoric times to the modern era.
  • E. The Daily Universal Register
    The Daily Universal Register was the original title of the British newspaper that later became known as The Times of London.
  • 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_69e0c465ae7481908577b7209fdb2a77 completed April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ef52185dbc819096ad2fc5b7d953f8 completed April 27, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0a0f99a1b4819093788a4052d16b27 completed May 17, 2026, 6:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a113126808190ba002d405cc9a3d6 completed May 17, 2026, 7:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a119cb17c8190a8732930b78b60cc completed May 17, 2026, 7:06 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:35 p.m.