Triple

T374245
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marc Andreessen E8334 entity
Predicate notableIdea P4 FINISHED
Object Software is eating the world
"Software is eating the world" is a famous thesis by venture capitalist Marc Andreessen arguing that software-driven companies are transforming and dominating nearly every traditional industry.
E47372 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: Software is eating the world | Statement: [Marc Andreessen, notableIdea, Software is eating the world]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Software is eating the world
Context triple: [Marc Andreessen, notableIdea, Software is eating the world]
  • A. The Cathedral and the Bazaar
    The Cathedral and the Bazaar is a highly influential essay and book on open-source software development that contrasts centralized, top-down programming models with decentralized, collaborative approaches.
  • B. Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
    "Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free" is a nonfiction book by Cory Doctorow that critiques modern copyright and digital rights regimes while advocating for open culture and user freedoms in the digital age.
  • C. Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices
    "Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices" is a foundational software engineering book by Robert C. Martin that explains agile methodologies through object-oriented design principles, design patterns, and best practices for building maintainable code.
  • D. The Mythical Man-Month
    The Mythical Man-Month is a classic software engineering book by Fred Brooks that explores the challenges of large-scale software projects and famously argues that adding manpower to a late project makes it later.
  • E. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
    "Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software" is a seminal software engineering book by Eric Evans that introduces the domain-driven design approach for managing complexity in large, business-focused software systems.
  • 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: Software is eating the world
Triple: [Marc Andreessen, notableIdea, Software is eating the world]
Generated description
"Software is eating the world" is a famous thesis by venture capitalist Marc Andreessen arguing that software-driven companies are transforming and dominating nearly every traditional industry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Software is eating the world
Target entity description: "Software is eating the world" is a famous thesis by venture capitalist Marc Andreessen arguing that software-driven companies are transforming and dominating nearly every traditional industry.
  • A. The Cathedral and the Bazaar
    The Cathedral and the Bazaar is a highly influential essay and book on open-source software development that contrasts centralized, top-down programming models with decentralized, collaborative approaches.
  • B. Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
    "Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free" is a nonfiction book by Cory Doctorow that critiques modern copyright and digital rights regimes while advocating for open culture and user freedoms in the digital age.
  • C. Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices
    "Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices" is a foundational software engineering book by Robert C. Martin that explains agile methodologies through object-oriented design principles, design patterns, and best practices for building maintainable code.
  • D. The Mythical Man-Month
    The Mythical Man-Month is a classic software engineering book by Fred Brooks that explores the challenges of large-scale software projects and famously argues that adding manpower to a late project makes it later.
  • E. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
    "Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software" is a seminal software engineering book by Eric Evans that introduces the domain-driven design approach for managing complexity in large, business-focused software systems.
  • 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_69a2e7f2ec648190b42bc7db424f8109 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ec13b9b48190b294d998c6720132 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3f0aa7ac081908125aee0042c63cc completed March 1, 2026, 7:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3f11956f88190aed9f3b7f51c0c37 completed March 1, 2026, 7:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3f21217b881909817a693e8cd75f5 completed March 1, 2026, 8 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.