Triple

T81724
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Broca's Brain E1641 entity
Predicate notableEssay P4018 FINISHED
Object The Night Walkers
"The Night Walkers" is an essay by Carl Sagan that explores the science, psychology, and cultural significance of human fear and fascination with the dark and the unknown.
E12830 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 Night Walkers | Statement: [Broca's Brain, notableEssay, The Night Walkers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Night Walkers
Context triple: [Broca's Brain, notableEssay, The Night Walkers]
  • A. The Backbone of Night
    "The Backbone of Night" is an episode of the science documentary series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" in which Carl Sagan explores humanity’s evolving understanding of the Milky Way and our place in the universe.
  • B. In the Shadow of Man
    In the Shadow of Man is Jane Goodall’s influential 1971 book that chronicles her pioneering field research on wild chimpanzees in Tanzania and helped transform our understanding of primate behavior and human evolution.
  • C. Wonders of the Invisible World
    Wonders of the Invisible World is a 1693 book by Puritan minister Cotton Mather defending the Salem witch trials and describing alleged cases of witchcraft in New England.
  • D. The Light We Carry
    The Light We Carry is a 2022 nonfiction book by Michelle Obama that offers personal reflections and practical wisdom on resilience, hope, and navigating uncertainty.
  • E. The Mysterious Mother
    The Mysterious Mother is a 1768 Gothic verse drama by Horace Walpole that explores dark themes of incest, guilt, and religious anxiety within an aristocratic family.
  • 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 Night Walkers
Triple: [Broca's Brain, notableEssay, The Night Walkers]
Generated description
"The Night Walkers" is an essay by Carl Sagan that explores the science, psychology, and cultural significance of human fear and fascination with the dark and the unknown.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Night Walkers
Target entity description: "The Night Walkers" is an essay by Carl Sagan that explores the science, psychology, and cultural significance of human fear and fascination with the dark and the unknown.
  • A. The Backbone of Night
    "The Backbone of Night" is an episode of the science documentary series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" in which Carl Sagan explores humanity’s evolving understanding of the Milky Way and our place in the universe.
  • B. In the Shadow of Man
    In the Shadow of Man is Jane Goodall’s influential 1971 book that chronicles her pioneering field research on wild chimpanzees in Tanzania and helped transform our understanding of primate behavior and human evolution.
  • C. Wonders of the Invisible World
    Wonders of the Invisible World is a 1693 book by Puritan minister Cotton Mather defending the Salem witch trials and describing alleged cases of witchcraft in New England.
  • D. The Light We Carry
    The Light We Carry is a 2022 nonfiction book by Michelle Obama that offers personal reflections and practical wisdom on resilience, hope, and navigating uncertainty.
  • E. The Mysterious Mother
    The Mysterious Mother is a 1768 Gothic verse drama by Horace Walpole that explores dark themes of incest, guilt, and religious anxiety within an aristocratic family.
  • 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_69a24c8150408190910a693eb51c1f71 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2567c90308190a9b989c586f7e559 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a29178a7348190a8cb9096ddc7c53e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 6:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a293f9536c8190a261c48d5d8c66a6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a294ee818081909713af424cbd53d1 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:06 a.m.