Triple

T23544421
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles C. Gillispie E577849 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Edge of Objectivity
The Edge of Objectivity is a landmark historical study that traces the development of modern scientific thought and the ideal of objectivity from the 17th through the 19th centuries.
E1590430 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 Edge of Objectivity | Statement: [Charles C. Gillispie, notableWork, The Edge of Objectivity]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Edge of Objectivity
Context triple: [Charles C. Gillispie, notableWork, The Edge of Objectivity]
  • A. Truth and the Absence of Fact
    Truth and the Absence of Fact is a philosophical monograph by Hartry Field that develops a deflationary theory of truth while challenging traditional notions of facts and their role in semantics and metaphysics.
  • B. The Challenge of Facts
    "The Challenge of Facts" is an influential essay by American sociologist and classical liberal thinker William Graham Sumner that critiques moralistic interference in social and economic processes and defends empirical, scientific analysis of society.
  • C. The Measure of Reality
    The Measure of Reality is a historical study by Alfred W. Crosby that explores how quantification and measurement transformed Western thought and culture from the Middle Ages onward.
  • D. Not by Fact Alone
    Not by Fact Alone is a collection of essays exploring the craft, interpretation, and narrative dimensions of historical writing and reading.
  • E. Before the Fact
    Before the Fact is a 1932 psychological crime novel by Anthony Berkeley Cox (writing as Francis Iles), best known as the dark, suspenseful source material for Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Suspicion."
  • 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 Edge of Objectivity
Triple: [Charles C. Gillispie, notableWork, The Edge of Objectivity]
Generated description
The Edge of Objectivity is a landmark historical study that traces the development of modern scientific thought and the ideal of objectivity from the 17th through the 19th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Edge of Objectivity
Target entity description: The Edge of Objectivity is a landmark historical study that traces the development of modern scientific thought and the ideal of objectivity from the 17th through the 19th centuries.
  • A. Truth and the Absence of Fact
    Truth and the Absence of Fact is a philosophical monograph by Hartry Field that develops a deflationary theory of truth while challenging traditional notions of facts and their role in semantics and metaphysics.
  • B. The Challenge of Facts
    "The Challenge of Facts" is an influential essay by American sociologist and classical liberal thinker William Graham Sumner that critiques moralistic interference in social and economic processes and defends empirical, scientific analysis of society.
  • C. The Measure of Reality
    The Measure of Reality is a historical study by Alfred W. Crosby that explores how quantification and measurement transformed Western thought and culture from the Middle Ages onward.
  • D. Not by Fact Alone
    Not by Fact Alone is a collection of essays exploring the craft, interpretation, and narrative dimensions of historical writing and reading.
  • E. Before the Fact
    Before the Fact is a 1932 psychological crime novel by Anthony Berkeley Cox (writing as Francis Iles), best known as the dark, suspenseful source material for Alfred Hitchcock’s film "Suspicion."
  • 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_69e245f9d5d08190a4a20004e1784e20 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1ae1ef55c8190a93c33e704ec3b5a completed April 29, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0cdf623d04819093d758822565c14f completed May 19, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ce0ed1cb881909a1ce386d406b824 completed May 19, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ce1a37b288190b4e9775e8be23ea9 completed May 19, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 6:11 p.m.