Triple

T1795676
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elizabeth Kolbert E39597 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines humanity’s attempts to engineer and control the natural world in response to environmental crises, and the unintended consequences of those interventions.
E201230 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: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future | Statement: [Elizabeth Kolbert, notableWork, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Context triple: [Elizabeth Kolbert, notableWork, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future]
  • A. The End of Nature
    The End of Nature is an influential 1989 environmental book by Bill McKibben that is often considered the first major work on global warming written for a general audience.
  • B. The Climate Book
    The Climate Book is a comprehensive anthology on the climate crisis curated by activist Greta Thunberg, featuring contributions from scientists, experts, and writers explaining the causes, impacts, and solutions to global warming.
  • C. The Sixth Extinction
    The Sixth Extinction is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines humanity’s role in causing an ongoing mass extinction of species and its implications for the planet’s future.
  • D. The Endangered Earth
    The Endangered Earth is the collective representation of the planet’s environmental crisis, recognized by Time as a symbolic “Person of the Year” to highlight global ecological threats and the urgency of conservation.
  • E. The Climate of Eden
    The Climate of Eden is a novel by American playwright and director Moss Hart that explores complex human relationships and social tensions in a richly drawn setting.
  • 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: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Triple: [Elizabeth Kolbert, notableWork, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future]
Generated description
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines humanity’s attempts to engineer and control the natural world in response to environmental crises, and the unintended consequences of those interventions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Target entity description: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines humanity’s attempts to engineer and control the natural world in response to environmental crises, and the unintended consequences of those interventions.
  • A. The End of Nature
    The End of Nature is an influential 1989 environmental book by Bill McKibben that is often considered the first major work on global warming written for a general audience.
  • B. The Climate Book
    The Climate Book is a comprehensive anthology on the climate crisis curated by activist Greta Thunberg, featuring contributions from scientists, experts, and writers explaining the causes, impacts, and solutions to global warming.
  • C. The Sixth Extinction
    The Sixth Extinction is a nonfiction book by Elizabeth Kolbert that examines humanity’s role in causing an ongoing mass extinction of species and its implications for the planet’s future.
  • D. The Endangered Earth
    The Endangered Earth is the collective representation of the planet’s environmental crisis, recognized by Time as a symbolic “Person of the Year” to highlight global ecological threats and the urgency of conservation.
  • E. The Climate of Eden
    The Climate of Eden is a novel by American playwright and director Moss Hart that explores complex human relationships and social tensions in a richly drawn setting.
  • 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_69a88632aa588190ba3978fde0db5bbd completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa653ef7f481908226ff71afca672a completed March 6, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adb5d49d7481909dcb5cc54b92e3cc completed March 8, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adb8b626688190b4953d4549339dea completed March 8, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adb9253fa08190bfb7d245208150c0 completed March 8, 2026, 6 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.