Triple

T230523
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cory Doctorow E4400 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Little Brother
Little Brother is a young adult cyberpunk novel by Cory Doctorow that follows a teenage hacker fighting government surveillance in a near-future San Francisco.
E29931 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: Little Brother | Statement: [Cory Doctorow, notableWork, Little Brother]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Little Brother
Context triple: [Cory Doctorow, notableWork, Little Brother]
  • A. The Brothers
    "The Brothers" is a 17th-century stage comedy by English playwright James Shirley, reflecting the manners and intrigues of Caroline-era London society.
  • B. L’Enfant
    L’Enfant is the surname of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the basic plan for Washington, D.C.
  • C. Liberty Boys
    Liberty Boys was an alternative name for the Sons of Liberty, a secret organization of American colonists who opposed British policies and played a key role in fomenting the American Revolution.
  • D. Devils Playground
    Devils Playground is a remote, arid expanse of sand dunes and desert terrain located within California’s Mojave Desert.
  • E. Stumptown
    Stumptown is a historic nickname for Portland, Oregon, referencing the city’s rapid 19th-century growth that left tree stumps scattered throughout the area.
  • 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: Little Brother
Triple: [Cory Doctorow, notableWork, Little Brother]
Generated description
Little Brother is a young adult cyberpunk novel by Cory Doctorow that follows a teenage hacker fighting government surveillance in a near-future San Francisco.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Little Brother
Target entity description: Little Brother is a young adult cyberpunk novel by Cory Doctorow that follows a teenage hacker fighting government surveillance in a near-future San Francisco.
  • A. The Brothers
    "The Brothers" is a 17th-century stage comedy by English playwright James Shirley, reflecting the manners and intrigues of Caroline-era London society.
  • B. L’Enfant
    L’Enfant is the surname of Pierre Charles L’Enfant, the French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the basic plan for Washington, D.C.
  • C. Liberty Boys
    Liberty Boys was an alternative name for the Sons of Liberty, a secret organization of American colonists who opposed British policies and played a key role in fomenting the American Revolution.
  • D. Devils Playground
    Devils Playground is a remote, arid expanse of sand dunes and desert terrain located within California’s Mojave Desert.
  • E. Stumptown
    Stumptown is a historic nickname for Portland, Oregon, referencing the city’s rapid 19th-century growth that left tree stumps scattered throughout the area.
  • 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_69a257363ffc81909757bde7ab3404da completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25cac7994819080b0b3b10808f8e5 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a362bd591c8190940e6b1cd81017ae completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3632a55ac8190b099ae109b0c578c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a363911900819094af203ba2ed0e8a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:52 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.