Triple

T1045183
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Niccolò Machiavelli E22560 entity
Predicate subjectOf P38 FINISHED
Object Machiavellianism
Machiavellianism is a personality trait and political philosophy characterized by strategic manipulation, cynicism, and a focus on power and self-interest over morality.
E120673 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: Machiavellianism | Statement: [Niccolò Machiavelli, subjectOf, Machiavellianism]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Machiavellianism
Context triple: [Niccolò Machiavelli, subjectOf, Machiavellianism]
  • A. Selfish
    Selfish is a 2015 coffee-table book by Kim Kardashian featuring a curated collection of her personal selfies and photographs.
  • B. Anti-Machiavel
    Anti-Machiavel is an 18th-century political treatise by Frederick II of Prussia that refutes Machiavelli’s principles in The Prince and advocates for enlightened, moral rulership.
  • C. will to power
    The will to power is Friedrich Nietzsche’s central philosophical concept describing a fundamental drive in all life to assert, expand, and enhance its strength and creative force.
  • D. Cynicism
    Cynicism is an ancient Greek philosophical school that advocates living in accordance with nature through radical simplicity, self-sufficiency, and rejection of conventional social values.
  • E. Trieb
    Trieb is a district or locality within the town of Lichtenfels in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany.
  • 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: Machiavellianism
Triple: [Niccolò Machiavelli, subjectOf, Machiavellianism]
Generated description
Machiavellianism is a personality trait and political philosophy characterized by strategic manipulation, cynicism, and a focus on power and self-interest over morality.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Machiavellianism
Target entity description: Machiavellianism is a personality trait and political philosophy characterized by strategic manipulation, cynicism, and a focus on power and self-interest over morality.
  • A. Selfish
    Selfish is a 2015 coffee-table book by Kim Kardashian featuring a curated collection of her personal selfies and photographs.
  • B. Anti-Machiavel
    Anti-Machiavel is an 18th-century political treatise by Frederick II of Prussia that refutes Machiavelli’s principles in The Prince and advocates for enlightened, moral rulership.
  • C. will to power
    The will to power is Friedrich Nietzsche’s central philosophical concept describing a fundamental drive in all life to assert, expand, and enhance its strength and creative force.
  • D. Cynicism
    Cynicism is an ancient Greek philosophical school that advocates living in accordance with nature through radical simplicity, self-sufficiency, and rejection of conventional social values.
  • E. Trieb
    Trieb is a district or locality within the town of Lichtenfels in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany.
  • 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_69a493d91478819094cc01fb65564bc1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b84937688190a5899af2104002df completed March 1, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac3bc97dec81909b6ad48e3f203923 completed March 7, 2026, 2:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac3c42c2c081909ccadbf944d3aa6c completed March 7, 2026, 2:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac3cbd43848190854add440753fdad completed March 7, 2026, 2:57 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.