Triple

T18298456
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Larry Niven E438293 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Mote in God’s Eye
The Mote in God’s Eye is a classic hard science fiction novel, co-written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, renowned for its intricate depiction of first contact with an alien civilization.
E1316831 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 Mote in God’s Eye | Statement: [Larry Niven, notableWork, The Mote in God’s Eye]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Mote in God’s Eye
Context triple: [Larry Niven, notableWork, The Mote in God’s Eye]
  • A. A Fire Upon the Deep
    A Fire Upon the Deep is a 1992 science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge, renowned for its richly imagined galactic-scale setting, exploration of superhuman intelligence, and influential "Zones of Thought" concept.
  • B. Ringworld
    Ringworld is a science fiction megastructure concept, popularized by Larry Niven’s novel of the same name, depicting a vast artificial ring encircling a star to provide an enormous habitable surface area.
  • C. The Fountains of Paradise
    The Fountains of Paradise is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that centers on the visionary construction of a space elevator on a fictionalized Sri Lankan island, exploring themes of technological ambition, religion, and human progress.
  • D. The City and the Stars
    The City and the Stars is a classic science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of immortality, memory, and the cyclical nature of civilization in a far-future utopian city.
  • E. The Gods Themselves
    The Gods Themselves is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov that explores parallel universes, alien intelligences, and the consequences of tampering with fundamental physical laws.
  • 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 Mote in God’s Eye
Triple: [Larry Niven, notableWork, The Mote in God’s Eye]
Generated description
The Mote in God’s Eye is a classic hard science fiction novel, co-written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, renowned for its intricate depiction of first contact with an alien civilization.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Mote in God’s Eye
Target entity description: The Mote in God’s Eye is a classic hard science fiction novel, co-written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, renowned for its intricate depiction of first contact with an alien civilization.
  • A. A Fire Upon the Deep
    A Fire Upon the Deep is a 1992 science fiction novel by Vernor Vinge, renowned for its richly imagined galactic-scale setting, exploration of superhuman intelligence, and influential "Zones of Thought" concept.
  • B. Ringworld
    Ringworld is a science fiction megastructure concept, popularized by Larry Niven’s novel of the same name, depicting a vast artificial ring encircling a star to provide an enormous habitable surface area.
  • C. The Fountains of Paradise
    The Fountains of Paradise is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that centers on the visionary construction of a space elevator on a fictionalized Sri Lankan island, exploring themes of technological ambition, religion, and human progress.
  • D. The City and the Stars
    The City and the Stars is a classic science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke that explores themes of immortality, memory, and the cyclical nature of civilization in a far-future utopian city.
  • E. The Gods Themselves
    The Gods Themselves is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov that explores parallel universes, alien intelligences, and the consequences of tampering with fundamental physical laws.
  • 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_69d8b915e3e881909125d760c15d0c29 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5017d96588190ac1e326803142976 completed April 19, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03bb5c7e4c8190b360b15b6e6ac677 completed May 12, 2026, 11:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03bbfa0da481908bb0e388dcbe9913 completed May 12, 2026, 11:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03bd6078b88190887a32099fc31db0 completed May 12, 2026, 11:53 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:35 a.m.