Triple

T18237696
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ever Since Darwin E436723 entity
Predicate hasPart P35 FINISHED
Object essay "Bushes and Ladders in Human Evolution"
"Bushes and Ladders in Human Evolution" is a Stephen Jay Gould essay that critiques simplistic, linear views of human evolution by emphasizing its branching, bush-like pattern.
E1314427 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: essay "Bushes and Ladders in Human Evolution" | Statement: [Ever Since Darwin, hasPart, essay "Bushes and Ladders in Human Evolution"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: essay "Bushes and Ladders in Human Evolution"
Context triple: [Ever Since Darwin, hasPart, essay "Bushes and Ladders in Human Evolution"]
  • A. Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution
    "Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution" is a popular science book by physical anthropologist William W. Howells that explains the fossil, genetic, and cultural evidence for the evolutionary origins and development of modern humans.
  • B. Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature
    Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature is an 1863 scientific work by Thomas Henry Huxley that presents early, influential arguments for human evolution and humanity’s close relationship to other primates.
  • C. On the Making of Man
    On the Making of Man is a theological and philosophical treatise by Gregory of Nyssa that explores the creation, nature, and purpose of humanity within a Christian framework.
  • D. Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature
    Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature is a critical philosophical examination of sociobiology’s claims about human behavior and human nature.
  • E. The Causes of Evolution
    The Causes of Evolution is a foundational 1932 book by geneticist J. B. S. Haldane that helped establish the modern synthesis by mathematically integrating Mendelian genetics with Darwinian natural selection.
  • 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: essay "Bushes and Ladders in Human Evolution"
Triple: [Ever Since Darwin, hasPart, essay "Bushes and Ladders in Human Evolution"]
Generated description
"Bushes and Ladders in Human Evolution" is a Stephen Jay Gould essay that critiques simplistic, linear views of human evolution by emphasizing its branching, bush-like pattern.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: essay "Bushes and Ladders in Human Evolution"
Target entity description: "Bushes and Ladders in Human Evolution" is a Stephen Jay Gould essay that critiques simplistic, linear views of human evolution by emphasizing its branching, bush-like pattern.
  • A. Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution
    "Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution" is a popular science book by physical anthropologist William W. Howells that explains the fossil, genetic, and cultural evidence for the evolutionary origins and development of modern humans.
  • B. Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature
    Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature is an 1863 scientific work by Thomas Henry Huxley that presents early, influential arguments for human evolution and humanity’s close relationship to other primates.
  • C. On the Making of Man
    On the Making of Man is a theological and philosophical treatise by Gregory of Nyssa that explores the creation, nature, and purpose of humanity within a Christian framework.
  • D. Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature
    Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature is a critical philosophical examination of sociobiology’s claims about human behavior and human nature.
  • E. The Causes of Evolution
    The Causes of Evolution is a foundational 1932 book by geneticist J. B. S. Haldane that helped establish the modern synthesis by mathematically integrating Mendelian genetics with Darwinian natural selection.
  • 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_69d8b91104e08190a8241f7d260a5162 completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4f7def3c48190a9a96c8b4911f0f3 completed April 19, 2026, 3:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03ac6d44d881908972c94167ad7d43 completed May 12, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03ad4d5bcc8190a5e065a5bb897400 completed May 12, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03af1fb1e0819095c9e8cb5528ce30 completed May 12, 2026, 10:52 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:33 a.m.