Triple

T2920635
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Population Bomb E78711 entity
Predicate relatedWork P37 FINISHED
Object Malthusian theory of population E7128 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: Malthusian theory of population | Statement: [The Population Bomb, relatedWork, Malthusian theory of population]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Malthusian theory of population
Context triple: [The Population Bomb, relatedWork, Malthusian theory of population]
  • A. 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.
  • B. An Essay on the Principle of Population chosen
    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.
  • C. Malthusian catastrophe
    A Malthusian catastrophe is a theoretical scenario in which unchecked population growth outstrips food production, leading to widespread famine, disease, and social collapse.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Thomas Malthus
    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.
  • 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_69ad8b0c2ad081909ff87050ae542bb9 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad96a672f88190851e487dac18d43f completed March 8, 2026, 3:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b056344ca48190b4d14dd2c1ac643d completed March 10, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:54 p.m.