Triple

T18586499
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject W. S. Merwin E454248 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Shadow of Sirius
The Shadow of Sirius is a Pulitzer Prize–winning poetry collection by W. S. Merwin that meditates on memory, loss, and the passage of time in spare, lyrical verse.
E1332517 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 Shadow of Sirius | Statement: [W. S. Merwin, notableWork, The Shadow of Sirius]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Shadow of Sirius
Context triple: [W. S. Merwin, notableWork, The Shadow of Sirius]
  • A. The Shadowed Sun
    The Shadowed Sun is a fantasy novel by N. K. Jemisin that continues her Dreamblood duology with a richly imagined world, political intrigue, and explorations of power, faith, and healing.
  • B. The Silent Star
    The Silent Star is a 1960 East German-Polish science fiction film, based on Stanisław Lem’s novel, that depicts an international mission to Venus uncovering evidence of a planned alien attack on Earth.
  • C. The Haunted Star
    The Haunted Star is a luxurious casino yacht and longtime social hotspot featured in the soap opera "General Hospital," often serving as a backdrop for major Port Charles drama and intrigue.
  • D. The Shrouded Planet
    The Shrouded Planet is a mid-20th-century science fiction novel, co-written by Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett under the joint pseudonym Robert Randall, that explores an alien world's culture and its complex encounter with human explorers.
  • E. The Dark of the Sun
    The Dark of the Sun is a 1965 adventure novel by Wilbur Smith set during the Congo Crisis, following mercenaries on a perilous mission through war-torn Central Africa.
  • 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 Shadow of Sirius
Triple: [W. S. Merwin, notableWork, The Shadow of Sirius]
Generated description
The Shadow of Sirius is a Pulitzer Prize–winning poetry collection by W. S. Merwin that meditates on memory, loss, and the passage of time in spare, lyrical verse.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Shadow of Sirius
Target entity description: The Shadow of Sirius is a Pulitzer Prize–winning poetry collection by W. S. Merwin that meditates on memory, loss, and the passage of time in spare, lyrical verse.
  • A. The Shadowed Sun
    The Shadowed Sun is a fantasy novel by N. K. Jemisin that continues her Dreamblood duology with a richly imagined world, political intrigue, and explorations of power, faith, and healing.
  • B. The Silent Star
    The Silent Star is a 1960 East German-Polish science fiction film, based on Stanisław Lem’s novel, that depicts an international mission to Venus uncovering evidence of a planned alien attack on Earth.
  • C. The Haunted Star
    The Haunted Star is a luxurious casino yacht and longtime social hotspot featured in the soap opera "General Hospital," often serving as a backdrop for major Port Charles drama and intrigue.
  • D. The Shrouded Planet
    The Shrouded Planet is a mid-20th-century science fiction novel, co-written by Robert Silverberg and Randall Garrett under the joint pseudonym Robert Randall, that explores an alien world's culture and its complex encounter with human explorers.
  • E. The Dark of the Sun
    The Dark of the Sun is a 1965 adventure novel by Wilbur Smith set during the Congo Crisis, following mercenaries on a perilous mission through war-torn Central Africa.
  • 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_69d8d38ae7e081908a98df1251842402 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e545b210488190ba62d3bf6e1a595c completed April 19, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a04f89193788190bd7334f80c23d0df completed May 13, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a04fe50f2c88190bba68d4c0025d0ef completed May 13, 2026, 10:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a04ff3cef0481909eef191716f4c74d completed May 13, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:44 a.m.