Triple

T18086137
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marshall McLuhan E432837 entity
Predicate influencedBy P9 FINISHED
Object Harold Innis
Harold Innis was a Canadian political economist and communication theorist whose work on media, time, and space profoundly shaped the field of media studies.
E1306009 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: Harold Innis | Statement: [Marshall McLuhan, influencedBy, Harold Innis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold Innis
Context triple: [Marshall McLuhan, influencedBy, Harold Innis]
  • A. Roy Innis
    Roy Innis was an American civil rights activist and long-time national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, known for his conservative views and outspoken advocacy on race and social policy.
  • B. Wilbur Schramm
    Wilbur Schramm was an influential American scholar often regarded as a founding figure of communication studies, who also played a key role in shaping creative writing education in the United States.
  • C. H. B. Irving
    H. B. Irving was a prominent British stage actor and theatre manager of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known especially as the son of famed actor Sir Henry Irving and for his distinguished Shakespearean performances.
  • D. R. S. McLaughlin
    R. S. McLaughlin was a prominent Canadian industrialist and founder of the McLaughlin Motor Car Company, which became a cornerstone of General Motors of Canada.
  • E. Marshall McLuhan
    Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher and media theorist best known for coining the phrase "the medium is the message" and for his pioneering work on how communication technologies shape human perception and society.
  • 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: Harold Innis
Triple: [Marshall McLuhan, influencedBy, Harold Innis]
Generated description
Harold Innis was a Canadian political economist and communication theorist whose work on media, time, and space profoundly shaped the field of media studies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold Innis
Target entity description: Harold Innis was a Canadian political economist and communication theorist whose work on media, time, and space profoundly shaped the field of media studies.
  • A. Roy Innis
    Roy Innis was an American civil rights activist and long-time national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality, known for his conservative views and outspoken advocacy on race and social policy.
  • B. Wilbur Schramm
    Wilbur Schramm was an influential American scholar often regarded as a founding figure of communication studies, who also played a key role in shaping creative writing education in the United States.
  • C. H. B. Irving
    H. B. Irving was a prominent British stage actor and theatre manager of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known especially as the son of famed actor Sir Henry Irving and for his distinguished Shakespearean performances.
  • D. R. S. McLaughlin
    R. S. McLaughlin was a prominent Canadian industrialist and founder of the McLaughlin Motor Car Company, which became a cornerstone of General Motors of Canada.
  • E. Marshall McLuhan
    Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher and media theorist best known for coining the phrase "the medium is the message" and for his pioneering work on how communication technologies shape human perception and society.
  • 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_69d8b907d05c819083cc3bd6021089e6 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4dd150ab88190864be2a722d214b8 completed April 19, 2026, 1:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a035d97912c8190b5d281ddd08de4f1 completed May 12, 2026, 5:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a036e9077308190be6e7d228dcf11b4 completed May 12, 2026, 6:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03795b255c8190a84ca0ce2fda4599 completed May 12, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:27 a.m.