Triple

T15575938
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Long Now Foundation E374369 entity
Predicate notableProject P4 FINISHED
Object Clock of the Long Now
The Clock of the Long Now is a monumental mechanical timepiece designed to keep time for 10,000 years, intended to promote long-term thinking and responsibility for the future.
E1164615 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: Clock of the Long Now | Statement: [Long Now Foundation, notableProject, Clock of the Long Now]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clock of the Long Now
Context triple: [Long Now Foundation, notableProject, Clock of the Long Now]
  • A. Long Now Foundation
    The Long Now Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes long-term thinking and responsibility over the next 10,000 years through projects like the 10,000 Year Clock and the Rosetta Project.
  • B. Doomsday Clock
    Doomsday Clock is a DC Comics limited series that serves as a sequel to Watchmen, integrating its characters into the mainstream DC Universe and exploring themes of power, morality, and destiny.
  • C. Timekeeper
    Timekeeper is the main villain in the family adventure film "Spy Kids: All the Time in the World," a time-obsessed antagonist who threatens the world with his control over time.
  • D. Chronos
    Chronos is a distributed, fault-tolerant job scheduler for Apache Mesos designed to run and manage scheduled and dependency-based tasks in large-scale cluster environments.
  • E. Chronos
    Chronos is a primordial Greek personification of time, distinct from the Titan Cronus, often depicted as an incorporeal, serpentine or ageless figure representing the eternal flow and destructive power of time.
  • 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: Clock of the Long Now
Triple: [Long Now Foundation, notableProject, Clock of the Long Now]
Generated description
The Clock of the Long Now is a monumental mechanical timepiece designed to keep time for 10,000 years, intended to promote long-term thinking and responsibility for the future.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clock of the Long Now
Target entity description: The Clock of the Long Now is a monumental mechanical timepiece designed to keep time for 10,000 years, intended to promote long-term thinking and responsibility for the future.
  • A. Long Now Foundation
    The Long Now Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes long-term thinking and responsibility over the next 10,000 years through projects like the 10,000 Year Clock and the Rosetta Project.
  • B. Doomsday Clock
    Doomsday Clock is a DC Comics limited series that serves as a sequel to Watchmen, integrating its characters into the mainstream DC Universe and exploring themes of power, morality, and destiny.
  • C. Timekeeper
    Timekeeper is the main villain in the family adventure film "Spy Kids: All the Time in the World," a time-obsessed antagonist who threatens the world with his control over time.
  • D. Chronos
    Chronos is a primordial Greek personification of time, distinct from the Titan Cronus, often depicted as an incorporeal, serpentine or ageless figure representing the eternal flow and destructive power of time.
  • E. Chronos
    Chronos is a distributed, fault-tolerant job scheduler for Apache Mesos designed to run and manage scheduled and dependency-based tasks in large-scale cluster environments.
  • 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_69d85ccd575081908909b71a3f3e3a61 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04e2140388190a8df7b835eaa72ce completed April 16, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff4c4978ec8190a57de5d9a2ec6653 completed May 9, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff4d0678648190b61fbe79a60da8ec completed May 9, 2026, 3:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff4d9258148190b21201bb09e16999 completed May 9, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:10 a.m.