Triple

T23150516
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject How Long 'til Black Future Month? E578308 entity
Predicate containsWork P2011 FINISHED
Object The Effluent Engine
The Effluent Engine is a steampunk-themed short story by N. K. Jemisin that blends alternate-history New Orleans, queer romance, and political intrigue.
E1573619 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 Effluent Engine | Statement: [How Long 'til Black Future Month?, containsWork, The Effluent Engine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Effluent Engine
Context triple: [How Long 'til Black Future Month?, containsWork, The Effluent Engine]
  • A. This Strange Engine
    This Strange Engine is a 1997 progressive rock album by British band Marillion, known for its expansive compositions and emotionally charged themes.
  • B. Infernal Machine
    The Infernal Machine is a powerful fictional ancient device central to the plot of the video game "Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine."
  • C. Feed the Machine
    Feed the Machine is a hard rock studio album by Canadian band Nickelback, noted for its heavier sound and socially charged themes.
  • D. The Dream Engine
    The Dream Engine is an experimental rock-influenced stage musical written by Jim Steinman in his early career that laid the conceptual groundwork for what later became the album and musical Bat Out of Hell.
  • E. Phantom Engineer
    "Phantom Engineer" is an earlier, alternate version of Bob Dylan's song that later became known as "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry."
  • 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 Effluent Engine
Triple: [How Long 'til Black Future Month?, containsWork, The Effluent Engine]
Generated description
The Effluent Engine is a steampunk-themed short story by N. K. Jemisin that blends alternate-history New Orleans, queer romance, and political intrigue.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Effluent Engine
Target entity description: The Effluent Engine is a steampunk-themed short story by N. K. Jemisin that blends alternate-history New Orleans, queer romance, and political intrigue.
  • A. This Strange Engine
    This Strange Engine is a 1997 progressive rock album by British band Marillion, known for its expansive compositions and emotionally charged themes.
  • B. Infernal Machine
    The Infernal Machine is a powerful fictional ancient device central to the plot of the video game "Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine."
  • C. Feed the Machine
    Feed the Machine is a hard rock studio album by Canadian band Nickelback, noted for its heavier sound and socially charged themes.
  • D. The Dream Engine
    The Dream Engine is an experimental rock-influenced stage musical written by Jim Steinman in his early career that laid the conceptual groundwork for what later became the album and musical Bat Out of Hell.
  • E. Phantom Engineer
    "Phantom Engineer" is an earlier, alternate version of Bob Dylan's song that later became known as "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry."
  • 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_69e245fb8de081908f0eba7b5fd75bc4 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18ed1a258819091ce86dbd1c51e46 completed April 29, 2026, 4:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c3098168481908aa4e4a985314db1 completed May 19, 2026, 9:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c3442ccb08190aaea6fe426a3dd10 completed May 19, 2026, 9:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c34a421308190bbaf614cdfa5e146 completed May 19, 2026, 10 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:01 p.m.