Triple
T1186281
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Alfred W. Crosby |
E25254
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
America’s Forgotten Pandemic
America’s Forgotten Pandemic is a historical study by Alfred W. Crosby that examines the global impact and cultural neglect of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
|
E135795
|
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: America’s Forgotten Pandemic | Statement: [Alfred W. Crosby, notableWork, America’s Forgotten Pandemic]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: America’s Forgotten Pandemic Context triple: [Alfred W. Crosby, notableWork, America’s Forgotten Pandemic]
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A.
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox is a nonfiction book recounting the global campaign to eliminate smallpox, written from the perspective of one of the key public health leaders who helped achieve its eradication.
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B.
A Journal of the Plague Year
A Journal of the Plague Year is a historical novel by Daniel Defoe that vividly reconstructs life in London during the 1665 bubonic plague outbreak.
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C.
Who Will Survive in America
"Who Will Survive in America" is the politically charged, spoken-word–driven closing track on Kanye West’s album *My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy*, sampling Gil Scott-Heron to critique race and society in the United States.
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D.
1918 influenza pandemic
The 1918 influenza pandemic was a catastrophic global outbreak of H1N1 influenza that infected a third of the world’s population and caused tens of millions of deaths, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history.
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E.
The Forgotten Man
The Forgotten Man is an influential 19th-century political and sociological essay by William Graham Sumner that critiques government intervention and highlights the overlooked burdens placed on ordinary taxpayers.
- 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: America’s Forgotten Pandemic Triple: [Alfred W. Crosby, notableWork, America’s Forgotten Pandemic]
Generated description
America’s Forgotten Pandemic is a historical study by Alfred W. Crosby that examines the global impact and cultural neglect of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: America’s Forgotten Pandemic Target entity description: America’s Forgotten Pandemic is a historical study by Alfred W. Crosby that examines the global impact and cultural neglect of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
-
A.
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox is a nonfiction book recounting the global campaign to eliminate smallpox, written from the perspective of one of the key public health leaders who helped achieve its eradication.
-
B.
A Journal of the Plague Year
A Journal of the Plague Year is a historical novel by Daniel Defoe that vividly reconstructs life in London during the 1665 bubonic plague outbreak.
-
C.
Who Will Survive in America
"Who Will Survive in America" is the politically charged, spoken-word–driven closing track on Kanye West’s album *My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy*, sampling Gil Scott-Heron to critique race and society in the United States.
-
D.
1918 influenza pandemic
The 1918 influenza pandemic was a catastrophic global outbreak of H1N1 influenza that infected a third of the world’s population and caused tens of millions of deaths, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history.
-
E.
The Forgotten Man
The Forgotten Man is an influential 19th-century political and sociological essay by William Graham Sumner that critiques government intervention and highlights the overlooked burdens placed on ordinary taxpayers.
- 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_69a49427d98881908646d6c63b8cea1e |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4bd53e4b48190abb2167f8074a6bc |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:27 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac6f239a288190ae488d11cff8ebf2 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:32 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ac6fea11408190b84d9fc54d4c4917 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:35 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ac70592c5c8190a1f86378ec5f70a9 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:37 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.