Triple

T9607208
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ian Rankin E232000 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Impossible Dead
The Impossible Dead is a crime novel by Scottish author Ian Rankin featuring Inspector Malcolm Fox investigating police corruption and historical political secrets in Scotland.
E809974 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 Impossible Dead | Statement: [Ian Rankin, notableWork, The Impossible Dead]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Impossible Dead
Context triple: [Ian Rankin, notableWork, The Impossible Dead]
  • A. The Last to Die
    "The Last to Die" is a politically charged rock song by Bruce Springsteen from his 2007 album *Magic*, reflecting on the human cost of war.
  • B. Last to Die
    Last to Die is a Magic: The Gathering card, likely a creature or spell, associated with the Magic game universe.
  • C. Last to Die
    "Last to Die" is a crime thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen featuring medical examiner Maura Isles and detective Jane Rizzoli as they investigate a series of murders linked to a group of traumatized orphans.
  • D. The Dead and the Living
    The Dead and the Living is a critically acclaimed poetry collection by Sharon Olds that explores themes of family, violence, and mortality in vivid, confessional verse.
  • E. Almanac of the Dead
    Almanac of the Dead is a sprawling, experimental novel by Leslie Marmon Silko that interweaves Indigenous history, prophecy, and political resistance across the Americas.
  • 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 Impossible Dead
Triple: [Ian Rankin, notableWork, The Impossible Dead]
Generated description
The Impossible Dead is a crime novel by Scottish author Ian Rankin featuring Inspector Malcolm Fox investigating police corruption and historical political secrets in Scotland.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Impossible Dead
Target entity description: The Impossible Dead is a crime novel by Scottish author Ian Rankin featuring Inspector Malcolm Fox investigating police corruption and historical political secrets in Scotland.
  • A. The Last to Die
    "The Last to Die" is a politically charged rock song by Bruce Springsteen from his 2007 album *Magic*, reflecting on the human cost of war.
  • B. Last to Die
    Last to Die is a Magic: The Gathering card, likely a creature or spell, associated with the Magic game universe.
  • C. Last to Die
    "Last to Die" is a crime thriller novel by Tess Gerritsen featuring medical examiner Maura Isles and detective Jane Rizzoli as they investigate a series of murders linked to a group of traumatized orphans.
  • D. The Dead and the Living
    The Dead and the Living is a critically acclaimed poetry collection by Sharon Olds that explores themes of family, violence, and mortality in vivid, confessional verse.
  • E. Almanac of the Dead
    Almanac of the Dead is a sprawling, experimental novel by Leslie Marmon Silko that interweaves Indigenous history, prophecy, and political resistance across the Americas.
  • 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_69ca8485a90c819094fe40b42fde9d70 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9a62372881908bf21be91e7285fb completed April 1, 2026, 10:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d17942504481908e7147a0f56bdf96 completed April 4, 2026, 8:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d17a27596081909c6a2ec486480ce1 completed April 4, 2026, 8:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d17af1d1b48190b6f8350edfa4f5ef completed April 4, 2026, 8:56 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:08 p.m.