Triple

T3799289
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ursula K. Le Guin E91647 entity
Predicate series P1761 FINISHED
Object Hainish Cycle
The Hainish Cycle is a loosely connected series of science fiction works by Ursula K. Le Guin that explore themes of culture, politics, and anthropology across a shared interstellar setting.
E388976 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: Hainish Cycle | Statement: [Ursula K. Le Guin, series, Hainish Cycle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hainish Cycle
Context triple: [Ursula K. Le Guin, series, Hainish Cycle]
  • A. Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy
    The Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy is a renowned hard science fiction series by Liu Cixin that explores humanity’s contact and conflict with an alien civilization across vast scales of time and space.
  • B. Dragonriders of Pern
    Dragonriders of Pern is a long-running science fantasy book series by Anne McCaffrey (later continued by her son Todd) that follows telepathically bonded dragonriders defending the planet Pern from a deadly extraterrestrial threat called Thread.
  • C. Ringworld
    Ringworld is a science fiction megastructure concept, popularized by Larry Niven’s novel of the same name, depicting a vast artificial ring encircling a star to provide an enormous habitable surface area.
  • D. The Broken Earth trilogy
    The Broken Earth trilogy is an award-winning science fantasy series by N. K. Jemisin that explores a geologically unstable world, systemic oppression, and survival through the lives of powerful orogenes.
  • E. The Expanse
    The Expanse is a critically acclaimed science fiction television series set in a colonized solar system, known for its realistic space physics, complex political intrigue, and richly developed characters.
  • 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: Hainish Cycle
Triple: [Ursula K. Le Guin, series, Hainish Cycle]
Generated description
The Hainish Cycle is a loosely connected series of science fiction works by Ursula K. Le Guin that explore themes of culture, politics, and anthropology across a shared interstellar setting.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hainish Cycle
Target entity description: The Hainish Cycle is a loosely connected series of science fiction works by Ursula K. Le Guin that explore themes of culture, politics, and anthropology across a shared interstellar setting.
  • A. Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy
    The Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy is a renowned hard science fiction series by Liu Cixin that explores humanity’s contact and conflict with an alien civilization across vast scales of time and space.
  • B. Dragonriders of Pern
    Dragonriders of Pern is a long-running science fantasy book series by Anne McCaffrey (later continued by her son Todd) that follows telepathically bonded dragonriders defending the planet Pern from a deadly extraterrestrial threat called Thread.
  • C. Ringworld
    Ringworld is a science fiction megastructure concept, popularized by Larry Niven’s novel of the same name, depicting a vast artificial ring encircling a star to provide an enormous habitable surface area.
  • D. The Broken Earth trilogy
    The Broken Earth trilogy is an award-winning science fantasy series by N. K. Jemisin that explores a geologically unstable world, systemic oppression, and survival through the lives of powerful orogenes.
  • E. The Expanse
    The Expanse is a critically acclaimed science fiction television series set in a colonized solar system, known for its realistic space physics, complex political intrigue, and richly developed characters.
  • 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_69aed96354f48190a768966d6bd19b04 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aee7a43c408190a54cff649f63e69f completed March 9, 2026, 3:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4f064471881908b52b2f64e50a83d completed March 14, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4f1fae7ac8190909b05c0d685e377 completed March 14, 2026, 5:28 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4f29e5fb48190982ab2844eb8c179 completed March 14, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:15 p.m.