Triple
T2942282
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Population Explosion |
E79414
|
entity |
| Predicate | influencedBy |
P9
|
FINISHED |
| Object | neo-Malthusianism |
E309105
|
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: neo-Malthusianism | Statement: [The Population Explosion, influencedBy, neo-Malthusianism]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: neo-Malthusianism Context triple: [The Population Explosion, influencedBy, neo-Malthusianism]
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A.
neo-Malthusian
chosen
A neo-Malthusian is an advocate of the view that rapid population growth threatens environmental sustainability and human well-being, often calling for population control measures to prevent resource depletion and ecological crisis.
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B.
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.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
Emily Malthus
Emily Malthus was a daughter of the English cleric and influential political economist Thomas Robert Malthus.
- 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_69ad8b1089588190b74d9e2505e45762 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ad9870e5d08190b3b277ba823fe6a1 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 3:40 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b08689ec3481909d9f039069ff19c7 |
completed | March 10, 2026, 9 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:56 p.m.