Triple

T3253604
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Clive E68242 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History
Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History is a collection of reflective essays by historian John Clive that explores how history is written, interpreted, and understood beyond mere factual narration.
E342396 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: Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History | Statement: [John Clive, notableWork, Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History
Context triple: [John Clive, notableWork, Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History]
  • A. The Politics of History
    The Politics of History is a critical work of historiography by Howard Zinn that challenges traditional narratives and argues for a politically engaged, socially conscious approach to writing and teaching history.
  • B. The Meaning of History
    The Meaning of History is a philosophical work by Russian religious thinker Nicolas Berdyaev that explores the spiritual and existential significance of historical events and humanity’s destiny.
  • C. History as a Novel, the Novel as History
    "History as a Novel, the Novel as History" is the subtitle of Norman Mailer’s nonfiction work *The Armies of the Night*, highlighting its blend of historical reportage and novelistic narrative.
  • D. Reason, Truth and History
    Reason, Truth and History is a 1981 philosophical work by Hilary Putnam that critically examines realism, reference, and the nature of truth in analytic philosophy.
  • E. Lectures on the Philosophy of History
    Lectures on the Philosophy of History is a posthumously published collection of G. W. F. Hegel’s university lectures that presents his influential view of world history as a rational process expressing the development of human freedom.
  • 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: Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History
Triple: [John Clive, notableWork, Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History]
Generated description
Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History is a collection of reflective essays by historian John Clive that explores how history is written, interpreted, and understood beyond mere factual narration.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History
Target entity description: Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History is a collection of reflective essays by historian John Clive that explores how history is written, interpreted, and understood beyond mere factual narration.
  • A. The Politics of History
    The Politics of History is a critical work of historiography by Howard Zinn that challenges traditional narratives and argues for a politically engaged, socially conscious approach to writing and teaching history.
  • B. The Meaning of History
    The Meaning of History is a philosophical work by Russian religious thinker Nicolas Berdyaev that explores the spiritual and existential significance of historical events and humanity’s destiny.
  • C. History as a Novel, the Novel as History
    "History as a Novel, the Novel as History" is the subtitle of Norman Mailer’s nonfiction work *The Armies of the Night*, highlighting its blend of historical reportage and novelistic narrative.
  • D. Reason, Truth and History
    Reason, Truth and History is a 1981 philosophical work by Hilary Putnam that critically examines realism, reference, and the nature of truth in analytic philosophy.
  • E. Lectures on the Philosophy of History
    Lectures on the Philosophy of History is a posthumously published collection of G. W. F. Hegel’s university lectures that presents his influential view of world history as a rational process expressing the development of human freedom.
  • 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_69ad858f74408190bcbd07f967cd7bd0 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adaf640fd8819083c3c0cc41db2ffc completed March 8, 2026, 5:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b28ec9553881908ee96b8684934914 completed March 12, 2026, 10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b28f9e12488190b93355b783300264 completed March 12, 2026, 10:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2c092063481909982dea3f71c00c1 completed March 12, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:09 p.m.