Triple
T18348786
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Trobriand Islanders |
E439609
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entity |
| Predicate | documentedIn |
P309
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FINISHED |
| Object | Argonauts of the Western Pacific |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Argonauts of the Western Pacific | Statement: [Trobriand Islanders, documentedIn, Argonauts of the Western Pacific]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Argonauts of the Western Pacific Context triple: [Trobriand Islanders, documentedIn, Argonauts of the Western Pacific]
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A.
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
chosen
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.
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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.
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C.
Growing Up in New Guinea
Growing Up in New Guinea is a classic anthropological study by Margaret Mead that examines childhood, adolescence, and cultural development among the Manus people of Papua New Guinea.
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D.
The Melanesians of British New Guinea
"The Melanesians of British New Guinea" is a foundational early 20th-century ethnographic study by anthropologist Charles Gabriel Seligman examining the cultures, social structures, and beliefs of Melanesian peoples in what is now Papua New Guinea.
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E.
The Structural Study of Totemism
The Structural Study of Totemism is a key essay by Claude Lévi-Strauss in which he analyzes totemic systems through structuralist methods to reveal underlying patterns of human thought and social organization.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b9175fec8190af865699b4e64d8c |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e514f66a4c8190a0ba53d3b349178a |
completed | April 19, 2026, 5:46 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:37 a.m.