Triple

T20663685
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tony Hillerman E507825 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object A Thief of Time
A Thief of Time is a mystery novel by Tony Hillerman featuring Navajo Tribal Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee investigating murders connected to archaeological looting in the American Southwest.
E1443794 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: A Thief of Time | Statement: [Tony Hillerman, notableWork, A Thief of Time]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Thief of Time
Context triple: [Tony Hillerman, notableWork, A Thief of Time]
  • A. The Matter of Time
    The Matter of Time is a monumental series of weathered steel sculptures by Richard Serra that creates immersive, maze-like spatial experiences for viewers, permanently installed at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
  • B. The Tenants of Time
    The Tenants of Time is a historical novel by Thomas Flanagan that explores Irish nationalism and rebellion through the intertwined lives of several characters across decades of political upheaval.
  • C. The Refusal of Time
    The Refusal of Time is a multimedia installation by South African artist William Kentridge that combines film, sculpture, sound, and performance to explore the nature and perception of time.
  • D. The Bird of Time
    The Bird of Time is a celebrated early 20th-century poetry collection by Indian poet Sarojini Naidu, noted for its lyrical style and themes of love, mortality, and Indian life.
  • E. The Face of Time
    The Face of Time is a novel by American writer James T. Farrell, known for its realistic portrayal of working-class life and psychological depth.
  • 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: A Thief of Time
Triple: [Tony Hillerman, notableWork, A Thief of Time]
Generated description
A Thief of Time is a mystery novel by Tony Hillerman featuring Navajo Tribal Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee investigating murders connected to archaeological looting in the American Southwest.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Thief of Time
Target entity description: A Thief of Time is a mystery novel by Tony Hillerman featuring Navajo Tribal Police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee investigating murders connected to archaeological looting in the American Southwest.
  • A. The Matter of Time
    The Matter of Time is a monumental series of weathered steel sculptures by Richard Serra that creates immersive, maze-like spatial experiences for viewers, permanently installed at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
  • B. The Tenants of Time
    The Tenants of Time is a historical novel by Thomas Flanagan that explores Irish nationalism and rebellion through the intertwined lives of several characters across decades of political upheaval.
  • C. The Refusal of Time
    The Refusal of Time is a multimedia installation by South African artist William Kentridge that combines film, sculpture, sound, and performance to explore the nature and perception of time.
  • D. The Bird of Time
    The Bird of Time is a celebrated early 20th-century poetry collection by Indian poet Sarojini Naidu, noted for its lyrical style and themes of love, mortality, and Indian life.
  • E. The Face of Time
    The Face of Time is a novel by American writer James T. Farrell, known for its realistic portrayal of working-class life and psychological depth.
  • 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_69e0b4c059bc81908ea762cd73ea4424 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6b2f4872481908858eb88ce89dd47 completed April 20, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08cd5d0da481909eebd69b8b314503 completed May 16, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08d175206c8190b119bb1a2d06462f completed May 16, 2026, 8:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08d28e02fc8190ab694673156ab0c0 completed May 16, 2026, 8:24 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:44 a.m.