Triple

T641473
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Isaiah Berlin E16747 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Crooked Timber of Humanity
The Crooked Timber of Humanity is a collection of essays by philosopher Isaiah Berlin exploring pluralism, the limits of human perfectibility, and the complexities of political and moral life.
E80221 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 Crooked Timber of Humanity | Statement: [Isaiah Berlin, notableWork, The Crooked Timber of Humanity]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Crooked Timber of Humanity
Context triple: [Isaiah Berlin, notableWork, The Crooked Timber of Humanity]
  • A. The Open Society and Its Enemies
    The Open Society and Its Enemies is Karl Popper’s influential two-volume critique of totalitarianism and historicism, defending liberal democracy and the principles of an open society.
  • B. The Poverty of Historicism
    The Poverty of Historicism is a philosophical work by Karl Popper that critiques the idea that history unfolds according to discoverable laws and argues against using such supposed laws to predict or control social development.
  • C. Lectures on the Philosophy of History
    Lectures on the Philosophy of History is a posthumously published collection of G. W. F. Hegel’s university lectures that presents his influential view of world history as a rational process expressing the development of human freedom.
  • D. Reason and Revolution
    Reason and Revolution is a seminal 1941 philosophical work by Herbert Marcuse that critically interprets Hegel and traces the development of critical theory and modern social thought.
  • E. One-Dimensional Man
    One-Dimensional Man is a 1964 philosophical critique by Herbert Marcuse that analyzes how advanced industrial societies create conformist, "one-dimensional" thinking that undermines genuine freedom and critical consciousness.
  • 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 Crooked Timber of Humanity
Triple: [Isaiah Berlin, notableWork, The Crooked Timber of Humanity]
Generated description
The Crooked Timber of Humanity is a collection of essays by philosopher Isaiah Berlin exploring pluralism, the limits of human perfectibility, and the complexities of political and moral life.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Crooked Timber of Humanity
Target entity description: The Crooked Timber of Humanity is a collection of essays by philosopher Isaiah Berlin exploring pluralism, the limits of human perfectibility, and the complexities of political and moral life.
  • A. The Open Society and Its Enemies
    The Open Society and Its Enemies is Karl Popper’s influential two-volume critique of totalitarianism and historicism, defending liberal democracy and the principles of an open society.
  • B. The Poverty of Historicism
    The Poverty of Historicism is a philosophical work by Karl Popper that critiques the idea that history unfolds according to discoverable laws and argues against using such supposed laws to predict or control social development.
  • C. Lectures on the Philosophy of History
    Lectures on the Philosophy of History is a posthumously published collection of G. W. F. Hegel’s university lectures that presents his influential view of world history as a rational process expressing the development of human freedom.
  • D. Reason and Revolution
    Reason and Revolution is a seminal 1941 philosophical work by Herbert Marcuse that critically interprets Hegel and traces the development of critical theory and modern social thought.
  • E. One-Dimensional Man
    One-Dimensional Man is a 1964 philosophical critique by Herbert Marcuse that analyzes how advanced industrial societies create conformist, "one-dimensional" thinking that undermines genuine freedom and critical consciousness.
  • 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_69a4936be1c88190af56540324b57da7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49f02bc2c8190b8a92b2505768c19 completed March 1, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5778faa788190ac246d6cd6b983f4 completed March 2, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a57806b6148190a56a1ed535bb3a65 completed March 2, 2026, 11:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a5785996748190ae7761d190bbd35f completed March 2, 2026, 11:45 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.