Triple

T5354388
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Max Nordau E102654 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization
The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization is a critical social and cultural commentary by Max Nordau that challenges the moral and ideological foundations of late 19th-century European society.
 E514447 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 Conventional Lies of Our Civilization | Statement: [Max Nordau, notableWork, The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization
Context triple: [Max Nordau, notableWork, The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization]
  • A. Farewell to Reason
    Farewell to Reason is a philosophical work by Paul Feyerabend that critiques rationalism and defends epistemological pluralism in science and society.
  • B. Betrayal of Science and Reason
    Betrayal of Science and Reason is a non-fiction book co-authored by Anne H. Ehrlich and Paul R. Ehrlich that critiques pseudoscience and anti-environmental propaganda while defending the role of sound science in public policy.
  • C. The Assault on Reason
    The Assault on Reason is a political book by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore that critiques the erosion of rational public discourse in American democracy, particularly in the media and politics.
  • D. The Destruction of Reason
    The Destruction of Reason is a major philosophical work by György Lukács that offers a Marxist critique of irrationalist currents in modern Western philosophy and their relation to fascism.
  • E. The Unconscious Civilization
    The Unconscious Civilization is a non-fiction book by Canadian philosopher John Ralston Saul that critiques modern corporate and consumer culture for undermining democracy and civic responsibility.
  • 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 Conventional Lies of Our Civilization
Triple: [Max Nordau, notableWork, The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization]
Generated description
The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization is a critical social and cultural commentary by Max Nordau that challenges the moral and ideological foundations of late 19th-century European society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization
Target entity description: The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization is a critical social and cultural commentary by Max Nordau that challenges the moral and ideological foundations of late 19th-century European society.
  • A. Farewell to Reason
    Farewell to Reason is a philosophical work by Paul Feyerabend that critiques rationalism and defends epistemological pluralism in science and society.
  • B. Betrayal of Science and Reason
    Betrayal of Science and Reason is a non-fiction book co-authored by Anne H. Ehrlich and Paul R. Ehrlich that critiques pseudoscience and anti-environmental propaganda while defending the role of sound science in public policy.
  • C. The Assault on Reason
    The Assault on Reason is a political book by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore that critiques the erosion of rational public discourse in American democracy, particularly in the media and politics.
  • D. The Destruction of Reason
    The Destruction of Reason is a major philosophical work by György Lukács that offers a Marxist critique of irrationalist currents in modern Western philosophy and their relation to fascism.
  • E. The Unconscious Civilization
    The Unconscious Civilization is a non-fiction book by Canadian philosopher John Ralston Saul that critiques modern corporate and consumer culture for undermining democracy and civic responsibility.
  • 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_69bd43d8f7248190b64c140734b5c9a8 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd862dbb008190aef653acddafd38b completed March 20, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf21df856c819099cf9047b87d6db8 completed March 21, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf22a6e3c081908a18bd370f924d39 completed March 21, 2026, 10:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf22fb8db48190b7ce94e5df8ed37f completed March 21, 2026, 11 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 2:01 p.m.