Triple
T7804489
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Being Digital |
E180513
|
entity |
| Predicate | author |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Nicholas Negroponte |
E34093
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Nicholas Negroponte | Statement: [Being Digital, author, Nicholas Negroponte]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Negroponte Context triple: [Being Digital, author, Nicholas Negroponte]
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A.
Nicholas Negroponte
chosen
Nicholas Negroponte is an American architect and technology visionary best known as the founding director of the MIT Media Lab and a prominent advocate for the digital revolution.
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B.
John Seely Brown
John Seely Brown is an American researcher and former chief scientist at Xerox PARC known for his influential work on organizational learning, innovation, and the social dimensions of technology.
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C.
John Battelle
John Battelle is an American entrepreneur, author, and media executive best known for co-founding Wired magazine and Federated Media Publishing and for his influential work chronicling and shaping the evolution of the internet industry.
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D.
Bill Joy
Bill Joy is an American computer scientist and software engineer best known as a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and a key developer of the Unix-based BSD operating system and the vi text editor.
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E.
Negroponte
Negroponte is the historical Venetian name for the island and city of Euboea (Chalcis) in Greece, a strategically important stronghold in the late medieval and early modern Eastern Mediterranean.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca827e50cc8190a92a733577184938 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69caf636def8819084117fababac06b2 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 10:16 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cb14439c8081908331caf450462a0e |
completed | March 31, 2026, 12:24 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:34 p.m.