Triple

T4515030
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jacques Ellul E102133 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes
Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes is a seminal 1962 work of social and political philosophy that analyzes how modern mass media and technology shape public opinion and individual consciousness through systematic propaganda.
E448937 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: Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes | Statement: [Jacques Ellul, notableWork, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes
Context triple: [Jacques Ellul, notableWork, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes]
  • A. Political Persuasion and Attitude Change
    "Political Persuasion and Attitude Change" is a scholarly work that examines how communication and media influence individuals’ political opinions and shifts in public attitudes.
  • B. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media" is a seminal work of media criticism that argues mainstream news outlets serve elite interests by shaping and filtering information to manufacture public consent for prevailing power structures.
  • C. The Authoritarian Personality
    The Authoritarian Personality is a landmark 1950 sociological and psychological study that analyzes the traits and social conditions associated with fascist and anti-democratic attitudes.
  • D. On the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion
    On the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion is a 19th-century philosophical treatise examining how deference to authority shapes belief, judgment, and public opinion.
  • E. Essays in Persuasion
    Essays in Persuasion is a collection of economic and political essays by John Maynard Keynes, in which he analyzes and argues for policy responses to the major issues of his time, including the aftermath of World War I and the Great Depression.
  • 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: Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes
Triple: [Jacques Ellul, notableWork, Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes]
Generated description
Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes is a seminal 1962 work of social and political philosophy that analyzes how modern mass media and technology shape public opinion and individual consciousness through systematic propaganda.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes
Target entity description: Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes is a seminal 1962 work of social and political philosophy that analyzes how modern mass media and technology shape public opinion and individual consciousness through systematic propaganda.
  • A. Political Persuasion and Attitude Change
    "Political Persuasion and Attitude Change" is a scholarly work that examines how communication and media influence individuals’ political opinions and shifts in public attitudes.
  • B. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media" is a seminal work of media criticism that argues mainstream news outlets serve elite interests by shaping and filtering information to manufacture public consent for prevailing power structures.
  • C. The Authoritarian Personality
    The Authoritarian Personality is a landmark 1950 sociological and psychological study that analyzes the traits and social conditions associated with fascist and anti-democratic attitudes.
  • D. On the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion
    On the Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion is a 19th-century philosophical treatise examining how deference to authority shapes belief, judgment, and public opinion.
  • E. Essays in Persuasion
    Essays in Persuasion is a collection of economic and political essays by John Maynard Keynes, in which he analyzes and argues for policy responses to the major issues of his time, including the aftermath of World War I and the Great Depression.
  • 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_69bd43d6251c81909deecce3e6e9d69c completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd5725745c81908bb462ba9537ae14 completed March 20, 2026, 2:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bd7f8f66ac8190b719a653686c7258 completed March 20, 2026, 5:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bd803a225c8190ab82d0e36c9ff3f5 completed March 20, 2026, 5:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bd84c11d8881908819b36669dee7b5 completed March 20, 2026, 5:32 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:02 p.m.