Triple
T197854
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Guns, Germs, and Steel |
E4036
|
entity |
| Predicate | partTitle |
P2765
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
The Rise and Spread of Food Production
"The Rise and Spread of Food Production" is a section of Jared Diamond’s book *Guns, Germs, and Steel* that examines how the development and diffusion of agriculture transformed human societies and laid the foundations for modern civilization.
|
E4036
|
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: The Rise and Spread of Food Production | Statement: [Guns, Germs, and Steel, partTitle, The Rise and Spread of Food Production]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Rise and Spread of Food Production Context triple: [Guns, Germs, and Steel, partTitle, The Rise and Spread of Food Production]
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A.
Poverty and Famines
Poverty and Famines is a seminal book by economist Amartya Sen that revolutionized the understanding of famine by arguing that they result more from failures of access and entitlement than from food shortages alone.
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B.
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a widely influential book by Jared Diamond that explores how geography, environment, and the distribution of domesticable plants and animals shaped the unequal development of human societies.
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C.
Malthusian catastrophe
A Malthusian catastrophe is a theoretical scenario in which unchecked population growth outstrips food production, leading to widespread famine, disease, and social collapse.
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D.
State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World
State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World is an annual flagship UN report that provides comprehensive analysis and statistics on global hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition trends.
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E.
Darwin’s experimental garden
Darwin’s experimental garden is the outdoor research space at Down House where Charles Darwin conducted many of his key botanical and evolutionary experiments.
- 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: The Rise and Spread of Food Production Triple: [Guns, Germs, and Steel, partTitle, The Rise and Spread of Food Production]
Generated description
"The Rise and Spread of Food Production" is a section of Jared Diamond’s book *Guns, Germs, and Steel* that examines how the development and diffusion of agriculture transformed human societies and laid the foundations for modern civilization.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Rise and Spread of Food Production Target entity description: "The Rise and Spread of Food Production" is a section of Jared Diamond’s book *Guns, Germs, and Steel* that examines how the development and diffusion of agriculture transformed human societies and laid the foundations for modern civilization.
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A.
Poverty and Famines
Poverty and Famines is a seminal book by economist Amartya Sen that revolutionized the understanding of famine by arguing that they result more from failures of access and entitlement than from food shortages alone.
-
B.
Guns, Germs, and Steel
chosen
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a widely influential book by Jared Diamond that explores how geography, environment, and the distribution of domesticable plants and animals shaped the unequal development of human societies.
-
C.
Malthusian catastrophe
A Malthusian catastrophe is a theoretical scenario in which unchecked population growth outstrips food production, leading to widespread famine, disease, and social collapse.
-
D.
State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World
State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World is an annual flagship UN report that provides comprehensive analysis and statistics on global hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition trends.
-
E.
Darwin’s experimental garden
Darwin’s experimental garden is the outdoor research space at Down House where Charles Darwin conducted many of his key botanical and evolutionary experiments.
- F. None of above.
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_69a254bca59881909a15e1496f1508c7 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:36 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a260c178ac819085eb94ccaf64b780 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 3:28 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a3161ddd388190954fd4b73b32a3b1 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 4:21 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a318fd61d0819082a19da66019b14f |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 4:34 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a31950bcc88190aa30a020c23a94cf |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 4:35 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:44 a.m.