Triple

T913028
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Arthur C. Clarke Award E19704 entity
Predicate notableWinner P2766 FINISHED
Object Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald is a British science fiction author known for his richly imagined, culturally diverse speculative novels such as "River of Gods" and "Brasyl."
E109993 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: Ian McDonald | Statement: [Arthur C. Clarke Award, notableWinner, Ian McDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ian McDonald
Context triple: [Arthur C. Clarke Award, notableWinner, Ian McDonald]
  • A. Stephen Baxter
    Stephen Baxter is a British science fiction author known for his hard science narratives, expansive space operas, and collaborations with Arthur C. Clarke.
  • B. Peter Hamilton
    Peter Hamilton is a British science fiction author best known for his expansive space opera series such as the Night's Dawn trilogy and the Commonwealth Saga.
  • C. Piers Anthony
    Piers Anthony is a British-American fantasy and science fiction author best known for his long-running Xanth series.
  • D. Gregory Benford
    Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist best known for his hard science fiction novels such as "Timescape" and his contributions to the Galactic Center series.
  • E. Sandra Henderson
    Sandra Henderson is a Canadian former athlete best known for co-lighting the Olympic cauldron at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
  • 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: Ian McDonald
Triple: [Arthur C. Clarke Award, notableWinner, Ian McDonald]
Generated description
Ian McDonald is a British science fiction author known for his richly imagined, culturally diverse speculative novels such as "River of Gods" and "Brasyl."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ian McDonald
Target entity description: Ian McDonald is a British science fiction author known for his richly imagined, culturally diverse speculative novels such as "River of Gods" and "Brasyl."
  • A. Stephen Baxter
    Stephen Baxter is a British science fiction author known for his hard science narratives, expansive space operas, and collaborations with Arthur C. Clarke.
  • B. Peter Hamilton
    Peter Hamilton is a British science fiction author best known for his expansive space opera series such as the Night's Dawn trilogy and the Commonwealth Saga.
  • C. Piers Anthony
    Piers Anthony is a British-American fantasy and science fiction author best known for his long-running Xanth series.
  • D. Gregory Benford
    Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist best known for his hard science fiction novels such as "Timescape" and his contributions to the Galactic Center series.
  • E. Sandra Henderson
    Sandra Henderson is a Canadian former athlete best known for co-lighting the Olympic cauldron at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
  • 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_69a4939f91a08190ba68c2c81eab90fe completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b2df9ba88190824437026796586f completed March 1, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7ee054c808190888594a6421c4b60 completed March 4, 2026, 8:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7ef1b38188190a580c0545e554958 completed March 4, 2026, 8:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7ef79c1448190a227829e673cdff0 completed March 4, 2026, 8:38 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.