Triple

T5117441
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Michael Kube-McDowell E115371 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Shield of Lies
Shield of Lies is a Star Wars Expanded Universe novel by Michael P. Kube-McDowell, forming the second book of the Black Fleet Crisis trilogy and exploring political intrigue and military conflict in the New Republic era.
E495389 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: Shield of Lies | Statement: [Michael Kube-McDowell, notableWork, Shield of Lies]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shield of Lies
Context triple: [Michael Kube-McDowell, notableWork, Shield of Lies]
  • A. The Great Betrayal
    The Great Betrayal is a political book by Pat Buchanan that critiques free trade and globalization from a nationalist, protectionist perspective.
  • B. Beneath the Veil
    "Beneath the Veil" is a song by the American indie pop band Chester French.
  • C. The Liar
    "The Liar" is a painting by African-American artist Archibald Motley that exemplifies his vivid, jazz-age depictions of Black urban life and social interaction.
  • D. The Liar
    "The Liar" is a comic novel by Stephen Fry that follows a brilliant but deceitful young man entangled in espionage, sexuality, and storytelling.
  • E. Separate Lies
    Separate Lies is a 2005 British drama film, adapted from Nigel Balchin’s novel "A Way Through the Wood," about a seemingly perfect upper-class marriage unraveling after a hit-and-run accident.
  • 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: Shield of Lies
Triple: [Michael Kube-McDowell, notableWork, Shield of Lies]
Generated description
Shield of Lies is a Star Wars Expanded Universe novel by Michael P. Kube-McDowell, forming the second book of the Black Fleet Crisis trilogy and exploring political intrigue and military conflict in the New Republic era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shield of Lies
Target entity description: Shield of Lies is a Star Wars Expanded Universe novel by Michael P. Kube-McDowell, forming the second book of the Black Fleet Crisis trilogy and exploring political intrigue and military conflict in the New Republic era.
  • A. The Great Betrayal
    The Great Betrayal is a political book by Pat Buchanan that critiques free trade and globalization from a nationalist, protectionist perspective.
  • B. Beneath the Veil
    "Beneath the Veil" is a song by the American indie pop band Chester French.
  • C. The Liar
    "The Liar" is a painting by African-American artist Archibald Motley that exemplifies his vivid, jazz-age depictions of Black urban life and social interaction.
  • D. The Liar
    "The Liar" is a comic novel by Stephen Fry that follows a brilliant but deceitful young man entangled in espionage, sexuality, and storytelling.
  • E. Separate Lies
    Separate Lies is a 2005 British drama film, adapted from Nigel Balchin’s novel "A Way Through the Wood," about a seemingly perfect upper-class marriage unraveling after a hit-and-run accident.
  • 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_69bd4441d1648190a54a533895041987 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd77ccb19c8190844c628ff7cfcca2 completed March 20, 2026, 4:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bec3758bb4819082d5876c4dc9df8d completed March 21, 2026, 4:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bec506d5b88190bcf6e7cb5f602c2f completed March 21, 2026, 4:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bec5ae111c8190914e93dc1680d36e completed March 21, 2026, 4:22 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:41 p.m.