Triple

T2265121
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rodney Brooks E50125 entity
Predicate authorOf P4244 FINISHED
Object Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us
Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us is a popular science book exploring the future of robotics and artificial intelligence and their impact on human society.
E251540 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: Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us | Statement: [Rodney Brooks, authorOf, Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us
Context triple: [Rodney Brooks, authorOf, Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us]
  • A. The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth
    The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth is a speculative nonfiction book that explores a future society dominated by brain-emulation-based robots and examines how this transformation would reshape economics, work, and human relationships.
  • B. The Emotion Machine
    The Emotion Machine is a 2006 book by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky that explores how human thinking and emotions can be understood as computational processes of the mind.
  • C. The Age of Spiritual Machines
    The Age of Spiritual Machines is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the evolution of artificial intelligence and its profound impact on human society and consciousness.
  • D. The Singularity Is Near
    The Singularity Is Near is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the imminent rise of superintelligent machines and explores the profound technological, social, and philosophical implications of this transformation.
  • E. I, Robot
    I, Robot is a seminal science fiction short story collection by Isaac Asimov that explores the ethical and logical implications of advanced robotics and the famous Three Laws of Robotics.
  • 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: Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us
Triple: [Rodney Brooks, authorOf, Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us]
Generated description
Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us is a popular science book exploring the future of robotics and artificial intelligence and their impact on human society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us
Target entity description: Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us is a popular science book exploring the future of robotics and artificial intelligence and their impact on human society.
  • A. The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth
    The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life when Robots Rule the Earth is a speculative nonfiction book that explores a future society dominated by brain-emulation-based robots and examines how this transformation would reshape economics, work, and human relationships.
  • B. The Emotion Machine
    The Emotion Machine is a 2006 book by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky that explores how human thinking and emotions can be understood as computational processes of the mind.
  • C. The Age of Spiritual Machines
    The Age of Spiritual Machines is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the evolution of artificial intelligence and its profound impact on human society and consciousness.
  • D. The Singularity Is Near
    The Singularity Is Near is a futurist book by Ray Kurzweil that predicts the imminent rise of superintelligent machines and explores the profound technological, social, and philosophical implications of this transformation.
  • E. I, Robot
    I, Robot is a seminal science fiction short story collection by Isaac Asimov that explores the ethical and logical implications of advanced robotics and the famous Three Laws of Robotics.
  • 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_69a88b01e0048190ba96431b5f990ba9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc18ed0708190aa3156e9d35120c3 completed March 7, 2026, 6:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae71d243608190bbfe5784fa06e26b completed March 9, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae728e46608190b4192519c705bc32 completed March 9, 2026, 7:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae72ff572081909b7c4aebb9e26180 completed March 9, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.