Triple
T70277
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Social Darwinism |
E1405
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasKeyProponent |
P810
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William Graham Sumner
William Graham Sumner was an influential American sociologist and classical liberal thinker known for his defense of laissez-faire economics and his association with Social Darwinist ideas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
|
E8178
|
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: William Graham Sumner | Statement: [Social Darwinism, hasKeyProponent, William Graham Sumner]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Graham Sumner Context triple: [Social Darwinism, hasKeyProponent, William Graham Sumner]
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A.
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer was a 19th-century English philosopher and sociologist best known for applying evolutionary theory to social and ethical issues and popularizing the concept of "survival of the fittest."
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B.
Franz Boas
Franz Boas was a pioneering German-American anthropologist often regarded as the "father of American anthropology" for his foundational work in cultural relativism and field-based ethnographic research.
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C.
Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner was a 19th-century American essayist and novelist best known for co-authoring "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" with Mark Twain, which gave its name to the era of rapid economic growth and social inequality in post–Civil War America.
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D.
Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk was an American political theorist, historian, and literary critic best known as a founding figure of postwar American conservatism and author of "The Conservative Mind."
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E.
Adam Smith
Adam Smith was an 18th-century Scottish economist and philosopher best known as the author of "The Wealth of Nations" and a foundational figure in classical economics.
- 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: William Graham Sumner Triple: [Social Darwinism, hasKeyProponent, William Graham Sumner]
Generated description
William Graham Sumner was an influential American sociologist and classical liberal thinker known for his defense of laissez-faire economics and his association with Social Darwinist ideas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Graham Sumner Target entity description: William Graham Sumner was an influential American sociologist and classical liberal thinker known for his defense of laissez-faire economics and his association with Social Darwinist ideas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
-
A.
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer was a 19th-century English philosopher and sociologist best known for applying evolutionary theory to social and ethical issues and popularizing the concept of "survival of the fittest."
-
B.
Franz Boas
Franz Boas was a pioneering German-American anthropologist often regarded as the "father of American anthropology" for his foundational work in cultural relativism and field-based ethnographic research.
-
C.
Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner was a 19th-century American essayist and novelist best known for co-authoring "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" with Mark Twain, which gave its name to the era of rapid economic growth and social inequality in post–Civil War America.
-
D.
Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk was an American political theorist, historian, and literary critic best known as a founding figure of postwar American conservatism and author of "The Conservative Mind."
-
E.
Adam Smith
Adam Smith was an 18th-century Scottish economist and philosopher best known as the author of "The Wealth of Nations" and a foundational figure in classical economics.
- 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_69a24c06b3bc8190aa4ac89026115efc |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:59 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2567b592c8190aaf692a18fcd2f1b |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:44 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a26241d4c08190885dab6aef75dcf3 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 3:34 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a26319b2b0819080ae6aeec36bc6e3 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 3:38 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a263a07dfc8190a9acf5118f2a68f1 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 3:40 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:03 a.m.