Triple
T26212213
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Kim Stanley Robinson |
E655518
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entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object |
The Years of Rice and Salt
The Years of Rice and Salt is an alternate history science fiction novel by Kim Stanley Robinson that imagines a world in which the Black Death wipes out most of Europe, leaving Islamic and East Asian civilizations to dominate global history.
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E1714624
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 Years of Rice and Salt | Statement: [Kim Stanley Robinson, notableWork, The Years of Rice and Salt]
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 Years of Rice and Salt Triple: [Kim Stanley Robinson, notableWork, The Years of Rice and Salt]
Generated description
The Years of Rice and Salt is an alternate history science fiction novel by Kim Stanley Robinson that imagines a world in which the Black Death wipes out most of Europe, leaving Islamic and East Asian civilizations to dominate global history.
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_69ee5b49adb4819086545280d4ef6337 |
completed | April 26, 2026, 6:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f60d1804548190ab0bba3376f28269 |
completed | May 2, 2026, 2:41 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a11858b71f48190bd979be75d984930 |
completed | May 23, 2026, 10:46 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a11865aaac881909aa388f473a6e5a3 |
completed | May 23, 2026, 10:50 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a11873fe9708190a0ad2b27028b120a |
completed | May 23, 2026, 10:53 a.m. |
Created at: April 26, 2026, 8:52 p.m.