Triple

T19744749

Position	Surface form	Disambiguated ID	Type / Status
Subject	Nicholson Baker	`E474220`	entity
Predicate	notableWork	`P4`	FINISHED
Object	Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper is a nonfiction book by Nicholson Baker that critiques library preservation practices, particularly the replacement of original paper materials with microfilm and digital formats.	`E1393137`	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: Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper | Statement: [Nicholson Baker, notableWork, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper]

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Context triple: [Nicholson Baker, notableWork, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper]

A. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man is Marshall McLuhan’s influential 1962 study of how the invention of the printing press transformed human perception, culture, and social organization.
B. The Gutenberg Elegies
The Gutenberg Elegies is a collection of essays by Sven Birkerts that reflects on the cultural and intellectual consequences of the shift from print to digital media.
C. Quarto publishing system
The Quarto publishing system is an open-source, multi-language toolchain for creating reproducible documents, reports, books, and websites from source formats like Markdown and Jupyter notebooks.
D. The Art of Book-Making
"The Art of Book-Making" is a humorous, satirical essay by Washington Irving that playfully critiques unoriginal authorship and literary plagiarism.
E. The Portable Library
The Portable Library is a series of compact, curated literary anthologies that present key works and excerpts from major authors in accessible single-volume collections.
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: Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Triple: [Nicholson Baker, notableWork, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper]

Generated description

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper is a nonfiction book by Nicholson Baker that critiques library preservation practices, particularly the replacement of original paper materials with microfilm and digital formats.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Target entity description: Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper is a nonfiction book by Nicholson Baker that critiques library preservation practices, particularly the replacement of original paper materials with microfilm and digital formats.

A. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man is Marshall McLuhan’s influential 1962 study of how the invention of the printing press transformed human perception, culture, and social organization.
B. The Gutenberg Elegies
The Gutenberg Elegies is a collection of essays by Sven Birkerts that reflects on the cultural and intellectual consequences of the shift from print to digital media.
C. Quarto publishing system
The Quarto publishing system is an open-source, multi-language toolchain for creating reproducible documents, reports, books, and websites from source formats like Markdown and Jupyter notebooks.
D. The Art of Book-Making
"The Art of Book-Making" is a humorous, satirical essay by Washington Irving that playfully critiques unoriginal authorship and literary plagiarism.
E. The Portable Library
The Portable Library is a series of compact, curated literary anthologies that present key works and excerpts from major authors in accessible single-volume collections.
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_69d8e51940a0819087bd2996f98da668`	completed	April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER	Named-entity recognition	`batch_69e652923fd48190982c51c39814fd08`	completed	April 20, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1	Entity disambiguation (via context triple)	`batch_6a07b4ffc5e8819091838b010eceeeca`	completed	May 16, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NEDg	Description generation	`batch_6a07b5e9961881908f224154ec12c366`	completed	May 16, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NED2	Entity disambiguation (via description)	`batch_6a07b67964b481909af269c6b5db6527`	completed	May 16, 2026, 12:12 a.m.

Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:47 p.m.