Triple

T4384713
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Tracy Kidder E99213 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine is a Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction book by Tracy Kidder that chronicles the intense, behind-the-scenes effort of a small engineering team racing to design a new computer in the late 1970s.
E436513 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: The Soul of a New Machine | Statement: [Tracy Kidder, notableWork, The Soul of a New Machine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Soul of a New Machine
Context triple: [Tracy Kidder, notableWork, The Soul of a New Machine]
  • A. Computer Lib / Dream Machines
    Computer Lib / Dream Machines is a pioneering 1974 book by Ted Nelson that passionately advocates for personal computing, hypertext, and user empowerment in the digital age.
  • B. Business @ the Speed of Thought
    Business @ the Speed of Thought is a business and technology book by Bill Gates that explores how digital systems and information networks can transform organizations and decision-making.
  • C. Engines of Logic
    Engines of Logic is a book by mathematician and computer scientist Martin Davis that explores the historical development of mathematical logic and its foundational role in the creation of modern computers.
  • D. The Machine of the World
    The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
  • E. The Road Ahead
    The Road Ahead is a non-fiction book by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates that explores the future impact of personal computing and the internet on society, business, and everyday life.
  • 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: The Soul of a New Machine
Triple: [Tracy Kidder, notableWork, The Soul of a New Machine]
Generated description
The Soul of a New Machine is a Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction book by Tracy Kidder that chronicles the intense, behind-the-scenes effort of a small engineering team racing to design a new computer in the late 1970s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Soul of a New Machine
Target entity description: The Soul of a New Machine is a Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction book by Tracy Kidder that chronicles the intense, behind-the-scenes effort of a small engineering team racing to design a new computer in the late 1970s.
  • A. Computer Lib / Dream Machines
    Computer Lib / Dream Machines is a pioneering 1974 book by Ted Nelson that passionately advocates for personal computing, hypertext, and user empowerment in the digital age.
  • B. Business @ the Speed of Thought
    Business @ the Speed of Thought is a business and technology book by Bill Gates that explores how digital systems and information networks can transform organizations and decision-making.
  • C. Engines of Logic
    Engines of Logic is a book by mathematician and computer scientist Martin Davis that explores the historical development of mathematical logic and its foundational role in the creation of modern computers.
  • D. The Machine of the World
    The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
  • E. The Road Ahead
    The Road Ahead is a non-fiction book by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates that explores the future impact of personal computing and the internet on society, business, and everyday life.
  • 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_69b3454f739481909ff6c28331f0c0b9 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b35263970c8190904ee20d81715833 completed March 12, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5e523cc5c8190b9884f83d433982c completed March 14, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5eeaf35348190a1611f5b04baed1f completed March 14, 2026, 11:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5ef5c7e0c819080b0e8914dcd6568 completed March 14, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:19 p.m.