Triple

T7239647
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas McCarthy E155321 entity
Predicate translatedWork P5475 FINISHED
Object Communication and the Evolution of Society
Communication and the Evolution of Society is a seminal work by Jürgen Habermas that develops his theory of communicative action and explores how language and communication shape social evolution and modern society.
E650849 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: Communication and the Evolution of Society | Statement: [Thomas McCarthy, translatedWork, Communication and the Evolution of Society]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Communication and the Evolution of Society
Context triple: [Thomas McCarthy, translatedWork, Communication and the Evolution of Society]
  • A. Theory of Culture Change
    Theory of Culture Change is an influential anthropological work that develops Julian Steward’s concept of cultural ecology, explaining how cultures adapt to their environmental and social contexts through multilinear evolution.
  • B. The evolution of culture
    "The evolution of culture" is a chapter that explores how cultural ideas and practices develop, spread, and transform over time through processes analogous to biological evolution.
  • C. Toward Ethnographies of Communication
    Toward Ethnographies of Communication is a foundational scholarly work in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics that helped establish the ethnography of communication as a key approach to studying language use in social context.
  • D. On the Origin of Language
    On the Origin of Language is a 19th-century work by philologist Hensleigh Wedgwood that explores the origins and development of human speech and linguistic forms.
  • E. The Nature of Culture
    The Nature of Culture is a seminal anthropological work by Alfred L. Kroeber that systematically explores the concept, patterns, and development of human culture.
  • 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: Communication and the Evolution of Society
Triple: [Thomas McCarthy, translatedWork, Communication and the Evolution of Society]
Generated description
Communication and the Evolution of Society is a seminal work by Jürgen Habermas that develops his theory of communicative action and explores how language and communication shape social evolution and modern society.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Communication and the Evolution of Society
Target entity description: Communication and the Evolution of Society is a seminal work by Jürgen Habermas that develops his theory of communicative action and explores how language and communication shape social evolution and modern society.
  • A. Theory of Culture Change
    Theory of Culture Change is an influential anthropological work that develops Julian Steward’s concept of cultural ecology, explaining how cultures adapt to their environmental and social contexts through multilinear evolution.
  • B. The evolution of culture
    "The evolution of culture" is a chapter that explores how cultural ideas and practices develop, spread, and transform over time through processes analogous to biological evolution.
  • C. Toward Ethnographies of Communication
    Toward Ethnographies of Communication is a foundational scholarly work in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics that helped establish the ethnography of communication as a key approach to studying language use in social context.
  • D. On the Origin of Language
    On the Origin of Language is a 19th-century work by philologist Hensleigh Wedgwood that explores the origins and development of human speech and linguistic forms.
  • E. The Nature of Culture
    The Nature of Culture is a seminal anthropological work by Alfred L. Kroeber that systematically explores the concept, patterns, and development of human culture.
  • 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_69c688143bfc81908d4176617735e601 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ea37fa9081908e9c3abe49d151e5 completed March 27, 2026, 8:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7cc3d75b48190916bf327396f2666 completed March 28, 2026, 12:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7ce24f4148190877852983c9aadb5 completed March 28, 2026, 12:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7ce9f73508190a2d1eb35237c3073 completed March 28, 2026, 12:50 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:55 p.m.