Triple
T80993
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thomas Malthus |
E1626
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableIdea |
P4
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Malthusian catastrophe
A Malthusian catastrophe is a theoretical scenario in which unchecked population growth outstrips food production, leading to widespread famine, disease, and social collapse.
|
E5962
|
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: Malthusian catastrophe | Statement: [Thomas Malthus, notableIdea, Malthusian catastrophe]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Malthusian catastrophe Context triple: [Thomas Malthus, notableIdea, Malthusian catastrophe]
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A.
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus was an English economist and demographer best known for his theory that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine and disease.
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B.
Holodomor
The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that caused the deaths of millions of Ukrainians and is widely regarded as a genocide.
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C.
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a devastating 1930s environmental disaster on the North American Great Plains, where severe drought and poor farming practices caused massive dust storms, crop failures, and widespread displacement of farming communities.
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D.
Green Revolution
The Green Revolution was a mid-20th-century agricultural transformation that dramatically increased global crop yields through high-yield varieties, synthetic fertilizers, and modern farming techniques, significantly reducing hunger in many developing countries.
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E.
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is a 19th-century social theory that applied Charles Darwin’s ideas of natural selection to human societies, often to justify economic inequality, competition, and laissez-faire capitalism.
- 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: Malthusian catastrophe Triple: [Thomas Malthus, notableIdea, Malthusian catastrophe]
Generated description
A Malthusian catastrophe is a theoretical scenario in which unchecked population growth outstrips food production, leading to widespread famine, disease, and social collapse.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Malthusian catastrophe Target entity description: A Malthusian catastrophe is a theoretical scenario in which unchecked population growth outstrips food production, leading to widespread famine, disease, and social collapse.
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A.
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus was an English economist and demographer best known for his theory that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine and disease.
-
B.
Holodomor
The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that caused the deaths of millions of Ukrainians and is widely regarded as a genocide.
-
C.
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was a devastating 1930s environmental disaster on the North American Great Plains, where severe drought and poor farming practices caused massive dust storms, crop failures, and widespread displacement of farming communities.
-
D.
Green Revolution
The Green Revolution was a mid-20th-century agricultural transformation that dramatically increased global crop yields through high-yield varieties, synthetic fertilizers, and modern farming techniques, significantly reducing hunger in many developing countries.
-
E.
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is a 19th-century social theory that applied Charles Darwin’s ideas of natural selection to human societies, often to justify economic inequality, competition, and laissez-faire capitalism.
- 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_69a24c60d19c8190a1b6c105ca59ef5b |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:01 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a24f354d088190972791051d2d99f8 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:13 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a2555394f881909f01ec05c75ff63d |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:39 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a256c4dc84819098c62b776c9ec80d |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:45 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a2577fd0c08190b6131261712d28b3 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:48 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:06 a.m.