Triple

T6579761
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Talal Asad E157260 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity
Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity is a seminal work of anthropology and critical theory by Talal Asad that examines how the concept of the secular emerged historically and shapes modern understandings of religion, politics, and power.
E599466 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: Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity | Statement: [Talal Asad, notableWork, Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity
Context triple: [Talal Asad, notableWork, Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity]
  • A. Islam and the West
    Islam and the West refers to the complex historical, cultural, political, and religious relationship and interactions between Islamic societies and Western civilizations.
  • B. The Making of Religion
    The Making of Religion is a scholarly work by Andrew Lang that examines the origins and development of religious beliefs, myths, and practices from an anthropological and comparative perspective.
  • C. An Historian’s Approach to Religion
    An Historian’s Approach to Religion is a work by Arnold J. Toynbee in which he examines the development and role of religions within the broader patterns of world history and civilizations.
  • D. The American Religion
    The American Religion is a 1992 book by literary critic Harold Bloom that analyzes distinctive features of religious belief and practice in the United States, especially its individualistic and gnostic tendencies.
  • E. The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism
    The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism is a landmark mid-20th-century evangelical book by theologian Carl F. H. Henry that critiques fundamentalism’s withdrawal from social and cultural engagement and calls for a more robust public witness.
  • 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: Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity
Triple: [Talal Asad, notableWork, Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity]
Generated description
Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity is a seminal work of anthropology and critical theory by Talal Asad that examines how the concept of the secular emerged historically and shapes modern understandings of religion, politics, and power.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity
Target entity description: Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity is a seminal work of anthropology and critical theory by Talal Asad that examines how the concept of the secular emerged historically and shapes modern understandings of religion, politics, and power.
  • A. Islam and the West
    Islam and the West refers to the complex historical, cultural, political, and religious relationship and interactions between Islamic societies and Western civilizations.
  • B. The Making of Religion
    The Making of Religion is a scholarly work by Andrew Lang that examines the origins and development of religious beliefs, myths, and practices from an anthropological and comparative perspective.
  • C. An Historian’s Approach to Religion
    An Historian’s Approach to Religion is a work by Arnold J. Toynbee in which he examines the development and role of religions within the broader patterns of world history and civilizations.
  • D. The American Religion
    The American Religion is a 1992 book by literary critic Harold Bloom that analyzes distinctive features of religious belief and practice in the United States, especially its individualistic and gnostic tendencies.
  • E. The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism
    The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism is a landmark mid-20th-century evangelical book by theologian Carl F. H. Henry that critiques fundamentalism’s withdrawal from social and cultural engagement and calls for a more robust public witness.
  • 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_69c6882b3a108190b3a9eb343ae4162c completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ae8ef4d08190b4c88aa0c15fe91c completed March 27, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6cba5cc708190a8748160a7878b8f completed March 27, 2026, 6:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6cd08a9c88190a481d4d3f8e680bf completed March 27, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6cdc859cc8190bbae2efc39409021 completed March 27, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:54 p.m.