Triple
T23075554
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Derek J. de Solla Price |
E575319
|
entity |
| Predicate | influencedBy |
P9
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FINISHED |
| Object | Robert K. Merton |
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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: Robert K. Merton | Statement: [Derek J. de Solla Price, influencedBy, Robert K. Merton]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert K. Merton Context triple: [Derek J. de Solla Price, influencedBy, Robert K. Merton]
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A.
Robert K. Merton
chosen
Robert K. Merton was a prominent American sociologist known for his theories of social structure and anomie, the concept of self-fulfilling prophecy, and major contributions to the sociology of science.
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B.
Robert Cox Merton
Robert Cox Merton is an American economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in financial economics, particularly the development of the Black–Scholes–Merton option pricing model.
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C.
Herbert Blumer
Herbert Blumer was an American sociologist best known for coining the term "symbolic interactionism" and significantly shaping the Chicago School of sociology.
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D.
Talcott Parsons
Talcott Parsons was a prominent American sociologist best known for developing structural functionalism and influential grand theories of social systems and action.
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E.
Lewis Coser
Lewis Coser was a German-American sociologist and intellectual known for his work on social conflict and for helping shape postwar American social thought.
- 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_69e245be28d48190ad1348d5a73db37d |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f18c62c200819099c92654493288ad |
completed | April 29, 2026, 4:43 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:56 p.m.