Triple

T8495170
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Book of Skulls E201079 entity
Predicate hasCharacter P2308 FINISHED
Object Tim
Tim is a fictional character from Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Book of Skulls," one of the four college students who seek an ancient order promising immortality at a terrible price.
 E737348 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: Tim | Statement: [The Book of Skulls, hasCharacter, Tim]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tim
Context triple: [The Book of Skulls, hasCharacter, Tim]
  • A. Tim
    Tim is the first name of American actor, writer, and director Tim Blake Nelson, known for his roles in films like "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs."
  • B. Tim
    Tim is a fictional character portrayed by American actor Matt Bomer.
  • C. Tim
    Tim is a critically acclaimed 1985 studio album by American rock band The Replacements, often regarded as one of their defining releases in alternative rock.
  • D. Tim
    Tim is the given name of Tim Wu, a prominent legal scholar and policy advocate known for coining the term "net neutrality."
  • E. Tom
    Tom is a common masculine given name, often used in English-speaking countries as a short form of Thomas.
  • 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: Tim
Triple: [The Book of Skulls, hasCharacter, Tim]
Generated description
Tim is a fictional character from Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Book of Skulls," one of the four college students who seek an ancient order promising immortality at a terrible price.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Tim
Target entity description: Tim is a fictional character from Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Book of Skulls," one of the four college students who seek an ancient order promising immortality at a terrible price.
  • A. Tim
    Tim is the given name of Tim Wu, a prominent legal scholar and policy advocate known for coining the term "net neutrality."
  • B. Tim
    Tim is a fictional character portrayed by American actor Matt Bomer.
  • C. Tim
    Tim is a critically acclaimed 1985 studio album by American rock band The Replacements, often regarded as one of their defining releases in alternative rock.
  • D. Tim
    Tim is the first name of American actor, writer, and director Tim Blake Nelson, known for his roles in films like "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs."
  • E. Tom
    Tom is a common masculine given name, often used in English-speaking countries as a short form of Thomas.
  • 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_69ca831ee390819095fae73400bbfafc completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbe57c01f881908cb77c8c834ac08d completed March 31, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce3a6117988190b8c667d4263f3e86 completed April 2, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce3d0323248190a076a209df98c96c completed April 2, 2026, 9:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce3d7909f48190a46f58fca75d7740 completed April 2, 2026, 9:57 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:13 p.m.