Triple

T15453299
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Simon Harrison (anthropologist) E371705 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Mask of War: Violence, Ritual and the Self in Melanesia
The Mask of War: Violence, Ritual and the Self in Melanesia is an anthropological study that examines how warfare, ritual practices, and concepts of personhood are intertwined in Melanesian societies.
E1157808 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 Mask of War: Violence, Ritual and the Self in Melanesia | Statement: [Simon Harrison (anthropologist), notableWork, The Mask of War: Violence, Ritual and the Self in Melanesia]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Mask of War: Violence, Ritual and the Self in Melanesia
Context triple: [Simon Harrison (anthropologist), notableWork, The Mask of War: Violence, Ritual and the Self in Melanesia]
  • A. Crime and Custom in Savage Society
    Crime and Custom in Savage Society is a classic anthropological study by Bronisław Malinowski that examines law, social order, and customary practices in so-called "primitive" societies through detailed fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands.
  • B. The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia
    The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia is a classic ethnographic work by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski that examines the intimate, social, and cultural practices of the Trobriand Islanders.
  • C. Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
    Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies is a landmark anthropological study by Margaret Mead that examines gender roles and cultural variation through fieldwork in three New Guinea societies.
  • D. Argonauts of the Western Pacific
    Argonauts of the Western Pacific is a landmark ethnographic study by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski that pioneered participant observation through its detailed account of the Kula exchange system in the Trobriand Islands.
  • E. New Guinea societies
    New Guinea societies are diverse indigenous cultural groups on the island of New Guinea whose gender roles, social structures, and temperaments were famously examined by anthropologist Margaret Mead.
  • 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 Mask of War: Violence, Ritual and the Self in Melanesia
Triple: [Simon Harrison (anthropologist), notableWork, The Mask of War: Violence, Ritual and the Self in Melanesia]
Generated description
The Mask of War: Violence, Ritual and the Self in Melanesia is an anthropological study that examines how warfare, ritual practices, and concepts of personhood are intertwined in Melanesian societies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Mask of War: Violence, Ritual and the Self in Melanesia
Target entity description: The Mask of War: Violence, Ritual and the Self in Melanesia is an anthropological study that examines how warfare, ritual practices, and concepts of personhood are intertwined in Melanesian societies.
  • A. Crime and Custom in Savage Society
    Crime and Custom in Savage Society is a classic anthropological study by Bronisław Malinowski that examines law, social order, and customary practices in so-called "primitive" societies through detailed fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands.
  • B. The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia
    The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia is a classic ethnographic work by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski that examines the intimate, social, and cultural practices of the Trobriand Islanders.
  • C. Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
    Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies is a landmark anthropological study by Margaret Mead that examines gender roles and cultural variation through fieldwork in three New Guinea societies.
  • D. Argonauts of the Western Pacific
    Argonauts of the Western Pacific is a landmark ethnographic study by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski that pioneered participant observation through its detailed account of the Kula exchange system in the Trobriand Islands.
  • E. New Guinea societies
    New Guinea societies are diverse indigenous cultural groups on the island of New Guinea whose gender roles, social structures, and temperaments were famously examined by anthropologist Margaret Mead.
  • 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_69d85cc8bd308190886949510b42e764 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e03f131b1481909ff099c3b844ee07 completed April 16, 2026, 1:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff21b3c5a481908057e94fd84f3cfc completed May 9, 2026, 11:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff23e23b6c81909148a3bbb7288f04 completed May 9, 2026, 12:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff24c8c43c81909a972dca1ed3cd36 completed May 9, 2026, 12:12 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:30 a.m.