Triple

T25350486
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Zones of Thought E635667 entity
Predicate characteristicOfZone P163832 FINISHED
Object Slow Zone: human-level technology and limited FTL impossibility
The Slow Zone is a region of space in Vernor Vinge’s Zones of Thought universe where physical laws severely constrain intelligence and technology, preventing superhuman computation and faster-than-light travel.
 E1676029 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: Slow Zone: human-level technology and limited FTL impossibility | Statement: [Zones of Thought, characteristicOfZone, Slow Zone: human-level technology and limited FTL impossibility]
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: Slow Zone: human-level technology and limited FTL impossibility
Triple: [Zones of Thought, characteristicOfZone, Slow Zone: human-level technology and limited FTL impossibility]
Generated description
The Slow Zone is a region of space in Vernor Vinge’s Zones of Thought universe where physical laws severely constrain intelligence and technology, preventing superhuman computation and faster-than-light travel.
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target predicate: characteristicOfZone
Context triple: [Zones of Thought, characteristicOfZone, Slow Zone: human-level technology and limited FTL impossibility]
  • A. characteristicOfZone chosen
    Indicates that a particular characteristic, feature, or property is associated with and defines a specific zone or area.
  • B. zoningCharacter
    Indicates how the regulatory or functional nature of a geographic area is defined or classified in terms of land-use zoning.
  • C. coreAreaCharacteristic
    Indicates that a characteristic or feature is specifically associated with the core area of something, rather than its peripheral or secondary parts.
  • D. regionalCharacteristic
    Indicates that a particular feature, quality, or attribute is typical of, or distinctive to, a specific geographic region.
  • E. serviceAreaCharacteristic
    Indicates a relationship where a service area is associated with a specific attribute or feature that characterizes it.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69e75a9ac5d881909387ed766e20cd47 completed April 21, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f6430a93a48190854ce71df680b2fa completed May 2, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a1075fb5d388190ab80c8125fd9057c completed May 22, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a10771a5a648190844a509e6ac507be completed May 22, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a1077d01fa08190b5439eba879538ef completed May 22, 2026, 3:35 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69f641da05b881909f6283c988639c53 completed May 2, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
Created at: April 21, 2026, 1:34 p.m.