Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Paolo Giordano E67412 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object How Contagion Works
How Contagion Works is a short nonfiction book by Italian writer Paolo Giordano that reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic and explores how contagion shapes societies, behaviors, and interconnected global systems.
E338336 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: How Contagion Works | Statement: [Paolo Giordano, notableWork, How Contagion Works]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: How Contagion Works
Context triple: [Paolo Giordano, notableWork, How Contagion Works]
  • A. Contagion (2011 film)
    Contagion (2011 film) is a 2011 medical thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh that follows the rapid global spread of a deadly virus and the scientific and social responses to the ensuing pandemic.
  • B. La Contagion sacrée
    La Contagion sacrée is an 18th-century philosophical critique of religion by Baron d'Holbach that attacks superstition and the social and moral harms of organized faith.
  • C. Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control
    Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control is a seminal book that applies mathematical modeling to understand and predict the spread and control of infectious diseases in human populations.
  • D. The Hot Zone
    The Hot Zone is a nonfiction thriller by Richard Preston that chronicles the origins and terrifying outbreaks of deadly filoviruses like Ebola and Marburg.
  • E. 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    The 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was a major Ebola virus outbreak in the country’s conflict-affected eastern region that became the second-largest Ebola epidemic ever recorded and prompted a global emergency response.
  • 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: How Contagion Works
Triple: [Paolo Giordano, notableWork, How Contagion Works]
Generated description
How Contagion Works is a short nonfiction book by Italian writer Paolo Giordano that reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic and explores how contagion shapes societies, behaviors, and interconnected global systems.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: How Contagion Works
Target entity description: How Contagion Works is a short nonfiction book by Italian writer Paolo Giordano that reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic and explores how contagion shapes societies, behaviors, and interconnected global systems.
  • A. Contagion (2011 film)
    Contagion (2011 film) is a 2011 medical thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh that follows the rapid global spread of a deadly virus and the scientific and social responses to the ensuing pandemic.
  • B. La Contagion sacrée
    La Contagion sacrée is an 18th-century philosophical critique of religion by Baron d'Holbach that attacks superstition and the social and moral harms of organized faith.
  • C. Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control
    Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control is a seminal book that applies mathematical modeling to understand and predict the spread and control of infectious diseases in human populations.
  • D. The Hot Zone
    The Hot Zone is a nonfiction thriller by Richard Preston that chronicles the origins and terrifying outbreaks of deadly filoviruses like Ebola and Marburg.
  • E. 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    The 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was a major Ebola virus outbreak in the country’s conflict-affected eastern region that became the second-largest Ebola epidemic ever recorded and prompted a global emergency response.
  • 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_69ad858b8adc8190ad989712c87a476b completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adab096b588190b22e41a76263ae92 completed March 8, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b26241803c8190aa3254d5887c80f4 completed March 12, 2026, 6:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2664ddd488190a3edf40fc2dcee18 completed March 12, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b266ca4a90819083ecb16095a2984b completed March 12, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:07 p.m.