Triple
T277065
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Herbert Spencer |
E5272
|
entity |
| Predicate | influencedBy |
P9
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FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas Malthus |
E1626
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Thomas Malthus | Statement: [Herbert Spencer, influencedBy, Thomas Malthus]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Malthus Context triple: [Herbert Spencer, influencedBy, Thomas Malthus]
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A.
Thomas Malthus
chosen
Thomas Malthus was an English economist and demographer best known for his theory that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine and disease.
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B.
Henry Malthus
Henry Malthus was a son of the influential British economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus, known primarily through this familial connection.
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C.
Emily Malthus
Emily Malthus was a daughter of the English cleric and influential political economist Thomas Robert Malthus.
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D.
David Ricardo
David Ricardo was a prominent 19th-century British political economist known for his theories of comparative advantage, rent, and distribution in classical economics.
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E.
James Mill
James Mill was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and prominent utilitarian philosopher associated with Jeremy Bentham and the early 19th-century British reform movement.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a257e6c8788190987dfe705ca2912a |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:50 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a25ded68c88190b1fc595ce329aeb9 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 3:15 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a391525a7081909166884a8ea47ace |
completed | March 1, 2026, 1:07 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:59 a.m.