Triple

T19583422
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject To Sail Beyond the Sunset E490050 entity
Predicate character P662 FINISHED
Object Ira Weatheral
Ira Weatheral is a fictional character from Robert A. Heinlein’s science fiction novel "To Sail Beyond the Sunset."
 E1404358 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: Ira Weatheral | Statement: [To Sail Beyond the Sunset, character, Ira Weatheral]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ira Weatheral
Context triple: [To Sail Beyond the Sunset, character, Ira Weatheral]
  • A. Ira Sylvester Caldwell
    Ira Sylvester Caldwell was an American Presbyterian minister and educator best known as the father of novelist Erskine Caldwell.
  • B. Ira Morgan
    Ira Morgan was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic early 20th-century films, including collaborations with Charlie Chaplin.
  • C. John Milledge
    John Milledge was an American politician and statesman who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman in the early 19th century.
  • D. Karl Pitterson
    Karl Pitterson is a Jamaican record producer and audio engineer best known for his work on classic reggae and dub recordings in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • E. Thomas J. Weatherford
    Thomas J. Weatherford was a prominent 19th-century Texas lawyer and political figure for whom the city of Weatherford, Texas, is named.
  • 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: Ira Weatheral
Triple: [To Sail Beyond the Sunset, character, Ira Weatheral]
Generated description
Ira Weatheral is a fictional character from Robert A. Heinlein’s science fiction novel "To Sail Beyond the Sunset."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ira Weatheral
Target entity description: Ira Weatheral is a fictional character from Robert A. Heinlein’s science fiction novel "To Sail Beyond the Sunset."
  • A. Ira Sylvester Caldwell
    Ira Sylvester Caldwell was an American Presbyterian minister and educator best known as the father of novelist Erskine Caldwell.
  • B. Ira Morgan
    Ira Morgan was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic early 20th-century films, including collaborations with Charlie Chaplin.
  • C. John Milledge
    John Milledge was an American politician and statesman who served as governor of Georgia and a U.S. congressman in the early 19th century.
  • D. Karl Pitterson
    Karl Pitterson is a Jamaican record producer and audio engineer best known for his work on classic reggae and dub recordings in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • E. Thomas J. Weatherford
    Thomas J. Weatherford was a prominent 19th-century Texas lawyer and political figure for whom the city of Weatherford, Texas, is named.
  • 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_69d8e8dd9374819098e36349b3211663 completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6404f34b081908aeb9cc9a5ddf539 completed April 20, 2026, 3:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07fdb0fdb081908e803fb558158374 completed May 16, 2026, 5:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07fe4573a48190919a59e466b34e35 completed May 16, 2026, 5:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07fede18a08190a7a7a698d7598023 completed May 16, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:42 p.m.