Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Malcolm Gladwell E77989 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Gladwell
Gladwell is the surname of Malcolm Gladwell, a prominent Canadian journalist and bestselling author known for books like "The Tipping Point" and "Outliers."
E77987 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: Gladwell | Statement: [Malcolm Gladwell, familyName, Gladwell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gladwell
Context triple: [Malcolm Gladwell, familyName, Gladwell]
  • A. The Tipping Point
    The Tipping Point is a 2004 studio album by hip-hop band The Roots that blends socially conscious lyrics with live-instrumentation and experimental production.
  • B. The Tipping Point
    The Tipping Point is a bestselling non-fiction book by Malcolm Gladwell that explores how small, seemingly minor actions or events can trigger large-scale social change and trends.
  • C. The Spirit Level
    The Spirit Level is a 1996 poetry collection by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that reflects on balance, memory, and the political and personal landscapes of Ireland.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Hidden Brain
    Hidden Brain is a popular NPR podcast and radio show that explores the unconscious patterns driving human behavior, decision-making, and relationships through storytelling and social science.
  • 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: Gladwell
Triple: [Malcolm Gladwell, familyName, Gladwell]
Generated description
Gladwell is the surname of Malcolm Gladwell, a prominent Canadian journalist and bestselling author known for books like "The Tipping Point" and "Outliers."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gladwell
Target entity description: Gladwell is the surname of Malcolm Gladwell, a prominent Canadian journalist and bestselling author known for books like "The Tipping Point" and "Outliers."
  • A. The Tipping Point
    The Tipping Point is a 2004 studio album by hip-hop band The Roots that blends socially conscious lyrics with live-instrumentation and experimental production.
  • B. The Tipping Point chosen
    The Tipping Point is a bestselling non-fiction book by Malcolm Gladwell that explores how small, seemingly minor actions or events can trigger large-scale social change and trends.
  • C. The Spirit Level
    The Spirit Level is a 1996 poetry collection by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that reflects on balance, memory, and the political and personal landscapes of Ireland.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Hidden Brain
    Hidden Brain is a popular NPR podcast and radio show that explores the unconscious patterns driving human behavior, decision-making, and relationships through storytelling and social science.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ad85e083008190b2e1b7085fe500bd completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc462ffdc8190896e9f98f648e2f3 completed March 8, 2026, 6:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b48856b7d481909d9cc32586d61d44 completed March 13, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b489b0de348190a339affb0d59e4b3 completed March 13, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4bc976fc881909a067b73002c5305 completed March 14, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:25 p.m.