Triple

T3054579
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads E60449 entity
Predicate subject P450 FINISHED
Object surveillance capitalism
Surveillance capitalism is an economic system in which companies harvest, analyze, and monetize personal data and human attention as a primary source of profit and power.
E323664 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: surveillance capitalism | Statement: [The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads, subject, surveillance capitalism]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: surveillance capitalism
Context triple: [The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads, subject, surveillance capitalism]
  • A. “Capitalism”
    "Capitalism" is a public artwork installed at the Oregon Convention Center that artistically critiques or reflects on economic and social themes associated with capitalist systems.
  • B. PRISM surveillance program
    The PRISM surveillance program is a classified U.S. National Security Agency data-collection initiative that gathers and analyzes digital communications from major internet companies for intelligence purposes.
  • C. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
    The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires is a nonfiction book that examines the recurring cycle of openness and monopolistic control in communications and information industries throughout modern history.
  • D. The Decline and Rise of the Consumer
    "The Decline and Rise of the Consumer" is a work by philosopher and cultural pluralism advocate Horace M. Kallen that examines the role, power, and rights of consumers within modern industrial and democratic society.
  • E. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
    The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads is a nonfiction book that traces the history and mechanics of the attention economy, examining how media, advertising, and technology industries capture and monetize human attention.
  • 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: surveillance capitalism
Triple: [The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads, subject, surveillance capitalism]
Generated description
Surveillance capitalism is an economic system in which companies harvest, analyze, and monetize personal data and human attention as a primary source of profit and power.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: surveillance capitalism
Target entity description: Surveillance capitalism is an economic system in which companies harvest, analyze, and monetize personal data and human attention as a primary source of profit and power.
  • A. “Capitalism”
    "Capitalism" is a public artwork installed at the Oregon Convention Center that artistically critiques or reflects on economic and social themes associated with capitalist systems.
  • B. PRISM surveillance program
    The PRISM surveillance program is a classified U.S. National Security Agency data-collection initiative that gathers and analyzes digital communications from major internet companies for intelligence purposes.
  • C. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
    The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires is a nonfiction book that examines the recurring cycle of openness and monopolistic control in communications and information industries throughout modern history.
  • D. The Decline and Rise of the Consumer
    "The Decline and Rise of the Consumer" is a work by philosopher and cultural pluralism advocate Horace M. Kallen that examines the role, power, and rights of consumers within modern industrial and democratic society.
  • E. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
    The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads is a nonfiction book that traces the history and mechanics of the attention economy, examining how media, advertising, and technology industries capture and monetize human attention.
  • 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_69ad8578137c81908259dcb27c7d6d7c completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9bf6b9948190bc957bfd1579c471 completed March 8, 2026, 3:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1ef03425c8190a44486ab563c210f completed March 11, 2026, 10:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1f2d6e2008190adad44758e2d4766 completed March 11, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1f34005c88190817c40dc30f99f14 completed March 11, 2026, 10:57 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:02 p.m.