Triple

T6092335
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject America’s Forgotten Pandemic E135795 entity
Predicate relatedWork P37 FINISHED
Object The Great Influenza
The Great Influenza is John M. Barry’s historical account of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, examining its scientific, medical, and social impact on the modern world.
E567915 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 Great Influenza | Statement: [America’s Forgotten Pandemic, relatedWork, The Great Influenza]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Great Influenza
Context triple: [America’s Forgotten Pandemic, relatedWork, The Great Influenza]
  • A. America’s Forgotten Pandemic
    America’s Forgotten Pandemic is a historical study by Alfred W. Crosby that examines the global impact and cultural neglect of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
  • B. House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
    House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox is a nonfiction book recounting the global campaign to eliminate smallpox, written from the perspective of one of the key public health leaders who helped achieve its eradication.
  • C. Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know
    Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible, expert-driven overview of how pandemics emerge, spread, and can be controlled, written for a general audience by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist Peter C. Doherty.
  • D. 1918 influenza pandemic
    The 1918 influenza pandemic was a catastrophic global outbreak of H1N1 influenza that infected a third of the world’s population and caused tens of millions of deaths, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history.
  • E. The Hot Zone
    The Hot Zone is a nonfiction thriller by Richard Preston that chronicles the origins and terrifying outbreaks of deadly filoviruses like Ebola and Marburg.
  • 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 Great Influenza
Triple: [America’s Forgotten Pandemic, relatedWork, The Great Influenza]
Generated description
The Great Influenza is John M. Barry’s historical account of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, examining its scientific, medical, and social impact on the modern world.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Great Influenza
Target entity description: The Great Influenza is John M. Barry’s historical account of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, examining its scientific, medical, and social impact on the modern world.
  • A. America’s Forgotten Pandemic
    America’s Forgotten Pandemic is a historical study by Alfred W. Crosby that examines the global impact and cultural neglect of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
  • B. House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
    House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox is a nonfiction book recounting the global campaign to eliminate smallpox, written from the perspective of one of the key public health leaders who helped achieve its eradication.
  • C. Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know
    Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible, expert-driven overview of how pandemics emerge, spread, and can be controlled, written for a general audience by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist Peter C. Doherty.
  • D. 1918 influenza pandemic
    The 1918 influenza pandemic was a catastrophic global outbreak of H1N1 influenza that infected a third of the world’s population and caused tens of millions of deaths, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history.
  • E. The Hot Zone
    The Hot Zone is a nonfiction thriller by Richard Preston that chronicles the origins and terrifying outbreaks of deadly filoviruses like Ebola and Marburg.
  • 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_69c0087cd3c48190b459848c72d84eb1 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c057ab7324819086d4708e6f9391c0 completed March 22, 2026, 8:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c125365a7481909e40d01c2d3590aa completed March 23, 2026, 11:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c125c1a230819095dd0a56309880eb completed March 23, 2026, 11:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c126c641448190a826c213e8ab05af completed March 23, 2026, 11:40 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:12 p.m.