Triple

T4189574
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jeremy Paxman E88999 entity
Predicate hasWritten P2831 FINISHED
Object Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British
"Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British" is a historical book examining how the British Empire shaped the culture, identity, and everyday lives of people in Britain itself.
E420549 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: Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British | Statement: [Jeremy Paxman, hasWritten, Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British
Context triple: [Jeremy Paxman, hasWritten, Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British]
  • A. Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
    Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain is a historical study that examines the rise, structure, and legacy of the British Empire within a global context.
  • B. The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970
    The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 is a major historical study by John Darwin that analyzes the development, global reach, and eventual decline of the British Empire in the modern era.
  • C. The End of the British Empire: The Historical Debate
    The End of the British Empire: The Historical Debate is a scholarly work by historian John Darwin that surveys and analyzes the major interpretations and controversies surrounding the decline and dissolution of the British Empire.
  • D. The American Empire Project
    The American Empire Project is a book series that critically examines U.S. foreign policy, militarism, and global dominance from a left-leaning, often anti-imperialist perspective.
  • E. The Governance of Britain
    The Governance of Britain is a political work by former UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson that analyzes and critiques the structures and functioning of British government and democracy.
  • 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: Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British
Triple: [Jeremy Paxman, hasWritten, Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British]
Generated description
"Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British" is a historical book examining how the British Empire shaped the culture, identity, and everyday lives of people in Britain itself.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British
Target entity description: "Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British" is a historical book examining how the British Empire shaped the culture, identity, and everyday lives of people in Britain itself.
  • A. Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
    Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain is a historical study that examines the rise, structure, and legacy of the British Empire within a global context.
  • B. The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970
    The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 is a major historical study by John Darwin that analyzes the development, global reach, and eventual decline of the British Empire in the modern era.
  • C. The End of the British Empire: The Historical Debate
    The End of the British Empire: The Historical Debate is a scholarly work by historian John Darwin that surveys and analyzes the major interpretations and controversies surrounding the decline and dissolution of the British Empire.
  • D. The American Empire Project
    The American Empire Project is a book series that critically examines U.S. foreign policy, militarism, and global dominance from a left-leaning, often anti-imperialist perspective.
  • E. The Governance of Britain
    The Governance of Britain is a political work by former UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson that analyzes and critiques the structures and functioning of British government and democracy.
  • 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_69aed9569a4481908b6c1fcec2a11e21 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af033ef6648190adde17f943d89c78 completed March 9, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b58a05e634819094bbe145f86d8786 completed March 14, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b58e337aec819092020d46ee235fd1 completed March 14, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b58e9f50948190a40254375e76153c completed March 14, 2026, 4:36 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:46 p.m.