Triple

T19754119
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Book of Strange New Things E474459 entity
Predicate hasAlienSpecies P32630 FINISHED
Object Oasans
The Oasans are a gentle, devout alien species in Michel Faber’s novel *The Book of Strange New Things*, known for their deep religious curiosity and enigmatic, otherworldly appearance.
E1393721 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: Oasans | Statement: [The Book of Strange New Things, hasAlienSpecies, Oasans]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oasans
Context triple: [The Book of Strange New Things, hasAlienSpecies, Oasans]
  • A. Oas
    Oas is a municipality in the province of Albay in the Bicol Region of the Philippines, known for its agricultural economy and rural communities.
  • B. Oroqen
    The Oroqen are a small Tungusic-speaking indigenous people of northeastern China, traditionally known as hunters and reindeer herders living in the forests of the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains.
  • C. The Tribe
    "The Tribe" is a high-energy psytrance track by Israeli duo Vini Vici that became one of their signature festival anthems in the global electronic music scene.
  • D. Orlysiens
    Orlysiens are the inhabitants or natives of Orly, a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France.
  • E. Triballi
    The Triballi were an ancient Indo-European people who inhabited the central Balkans, often interacting and clashing with neighboring Thracian, Macedonian, and later Roman powers.
  • 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: Oasans
Triple: [The Book of Strange New Things, hasAlienSpecies, Oasans]
Generated description
The Oasans are a gentle, devout alien species in Michel Faber’s novel *The Book of Strange New Things*, known for their deep religious curiosity and enigmatic, otherworldly appearance.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oasans
Target entity description: The Oasans are a gentle, devout alien species in Michel Faber’s novel *The Book of Strange New Things*, known for their deep religious curiosity and enigmatic, otherworldly appearance.
  • A. Oas
    Oas is a municipality in the province of Albay in the Bicol Region of the Philippines, known for its agricultural economy and rural communities.
  • B. Oroqen
    The Oroqen are a small Tungusic-speaking indigenous people of northeastern China, traditionally known as hunters and reindeer herders living in the forests of the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains.
  • C. The Tribe
    "The Tribe" is a high-energy psytrance track by Israeli duo Vini Vici that became one of their signature festival anthems in the global electronic music scene.
  • D. Orlysiens
    Orlysiens are the inhabitants or natives of Orly, a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France.
  • E. Triballi
    The Triballi were an ancient Indo-European people who inhabited the central Balkans, often interacting and clashing with neighboring Thracian, Macedonian, and later Roman powers.
  • 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_69d8e51940a0819087bd2996f98da668 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6529cae048190b4f8e6ba409bcf8e completed April 20, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07bd67064081908839a408b0e746e1 completed May 16, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07bde28e848190aaa9c4a06b31bdb6 completed May 16, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07bed9c62c819088d8e32f92b3b147 completed May 16, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:48 p.m.