Triple

T308402
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Isaac Asimov E6350 entity
Predicate notableIdea P4 FINISHED
Object psychohistory
Psychohistory is a fictional scientific discipline from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series that uses mathematical and statistical laws to predict the future behavior of large populations.
E39706 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: psychohistory | Statement: [Isaac Asimov, notableIdea, psychohistory]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: psychohistory
Context triple: [Isaac Asimov, notableIdea, psychohistory]
  • A. Berserker hypothesis
    The Berserker hypothesis is a proposed solution to the Fermi paradox suggesting that self-replicating killer probes or hostile civilizations systematically destroy emerging intelligent life in the galaxy, explaining our apparent cosmic silence.
  • B. History of the Inductive Sciences
    History of the Inductive Sciences is William Whewell’s comprehensive 19th-century survey of the development of scientific knowledge and methods from antiquity to his own time.
  • C. Glimpses of World History
    Glimpses of World History is a collection of letters written by Jawaharlal Nehru to his daughter Indira Gandhi, offering a sweeping narrative of global history from ancient times to the early 20th century.
  • D. Reason and Revolution
    Reason and Revolution is a seminal 1941 philosophical work by Herbert Marcuse that critically interprets Hegel and traces the development of critical theory and modern social thought.
  • E. The Outline of History
    The Outline of History is a sweeping early-20th-century universal history book by H. G. Wells that attempts to narrate the story of humanity from prehistoric times to the modern era.
  • 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: psychohistory
Triple: [Isaac Asimov, notableIdea, psychohistory]
Generated description
Psychohistory is a fictional scientific discipline from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series that uses mathematical and statistical laws to predict the future behavior of large populations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: psychohistory
Target entity description: Psychohistory is a fictional scientific discipline from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series that uses mathematical and statistical laws to predict the future behavior of large populations.
  • A. Berserker hypothesis
    The Berserker hypothesis is a proposed solution to the Fermi paradox suggesting that self-replicating killer probes or hostile civilizations systematically destroy emerging intelligent life in the galaxy, explaining our apparent cosmic silence.
  • B. History of the Inductive Sciences
    History of the Inductive Sciences is William Whewell’s comprehensive 19th-century survey of the development of scientific knowledge and methods from antiquity to his own time.
  • C. Glimpses of World History
    Glimpses of World History is a collection of letters written by Jawaharlal Nehru to his daughter Indira Gandhi, offering a sweeping narrative of global history from ancient times to the early 20th century.
  • D. Reason and Revolution
    Reason and Revolution is a seminal 1941 philosophical work by Herbert Marcuse that critically interprets Hegel and traces the development of critical theory and modern social thought.
  • E. The Outline of History
    The Outline of History is a sweeping early-20th-century universal history book by H. G. Wells that attempts to narrate the story of humanity from prehistoric times to the modern era.
  • 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_69a2e79230508190b912ecb555aae17e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ea3289608190a36c20a47761c6e4 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3b475e91c8190b68b05a8112d35dd completed March 1, 2026, 3:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3b52d7d208190b03eac35baed1294 completed March 1, 2026, 3:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3b5c1360c819093622754b6f1d2d8 completed March 1, 2026, 3:42 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.