Triple

T21077487
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Playfair E519275 entity
Predicate publicationDateOfWork P25 FINISHED
Object Statistical Breviary, 1801
"Statistical Breviary, 1801" is an early statistical work by William Playfair notable for pioneering the use of graphical methods, including some of the first modern pie charts, to present economic and demographic data.
E1464631 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: Statistical Breviary, 1801 | Statement: [William Playfair, publicationDateOfWork, Statistical Breviary, 1801]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Statistical Breviary, 1801
Context triple: [William Playfair, publicationDateOfWork, Statistical Breviary, 1801]
  • A. An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind (1693)
    An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind (1693) is Edmund Halley’s pioneering demographic study that introduced one of the first life tables and laid foundations for actuarial science and life insurance mathematics.
  • B. Illustrations and Proofs of the Principle of Population
    Illustrations and Proofs of the Principle of Population is a 19th-century work by Francis Place that defends and elaborates Thomas Malthus’s population theory with empirical evidence and argument.
  • C. Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index, and Made upon the Bills of Mortality
    Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index, and Made upon the Bills of Mortality is a pioneering 17th-century work of statistical analysis that laid the foundations for demography and epidemiology by examining London’s mortality records.
  • D. Graunt
    Graunt is an English surname most notably associated with John Graunt, a 17th-century pioneer of demography and statistical analysis of population data.
  • E. An Essay on the Principle of Population
    An Essay on the Principle of Population is an influential 1798 work of political economy and demography arguing that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine, disease, and war.
  • 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: Statistical Breviary, 1801
Triple: [William Playfair, publicationDateOfWork, Statistical Breviary, 1801]
Generated description
"Statistical Breviary, 1801" is an early statistical work by William Playfair notable for pioneering the use of graphical methods, including some of the first modern pie charts, to present economic and demographic data.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Statistical Breviary, 1801
Target entity description: "Statistical Breviary, 1801" is an early statistical work by William Playfair notable for pioneering the use of graphical methods, including some of the first modern pie charts, to present economic and demographic data.
  • A. An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind (1693)
    An Estimate of the Degrees of the Mortality of Mankind (1693) is Edmund Halley’s pioneering demographic study that introduced one of the first life tables and laid foundations for actuarial science and life insurance mathematics.
  • B. Illustrations and Proofs of the Principle of Population
    Illustrations and Proofs of the Principle of Population is a 19th-century work by Francis Place that defends and elaborates Thomas Malthus’s population theory with empirical evidence and argument.
  • C. Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index, and Made upon the Bills of Mortality
    Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index, and Made upon the Bills of Mortality is a pioneering 17th-century work of statistical analysis that laid the foundations for demography and epidemiology by examining London’s mortality records.
  • D. Graunt
    Graunt is an English surname most notably associated with John Graunt, a 17th-century pioneer of demography and statistical analysis of population data.
  • E. An Essay on the Principle of Population
    An Essay on the Principle of Population is an influential 1798 work of political economy and demography arguing that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine, disease, and war.
  • 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_69e0b506e59c8190849b71ed07929215 completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e702d77b8081908ecfb05ab391fd39 completed April 21, 2026, 4:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09507a4a048190beda6f1af1b5eb67 completed May 17, 2026, 5:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0951a8c31c8190b77554fa0c8a0d80 completed May 17, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09526fc3c4819098fcdfa105b840bd completed May 17, 2026, 5:30 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 2:49 p.m.