Triple
T81011
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thomas Malthus |
E1626
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasChild |
P369
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Henry Malthus
Henry Malthus was a son of the influential British economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus, known primarily through this familial connection.
|
E9631
|
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: Henry Malthus | Statement: [Thomas Malthus, hasChild, Henry Malthus]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry Malthus Context triple: [Thomas Malthus, hasChild, Henry Malthus]
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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.
David Ricardo
David Ricardo was a prominent 19th-century British political economist known for his theories of comparative advantage, rent, and distribution in classical economics.
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C.
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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D.
Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus Darwin was an 18th-century English physician, natural philosopher, and poet who proposed early ideas about biological evolution and influenced later evolutionary thought.
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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: Henry Malthus Triple: [Thomas Malthus, hasChild, Henry Malthus]
Generated description
Henry Malthus was a son of the influential British economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus, known primarily through this familial connection.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry Malthus Target entity description: Henry Malthus was a son of the influential British economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus, known primarily through this familial connection.
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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.
David Ricardo
David Ricardo was a prominent 19th-century British political economist known for his theories of comparative advantage, rent, and distribution in classical economics.
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C.
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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D.
Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus Darwin was an 18th-century English physician, natural philosopher, and poet who proposed early ideas about biological evolution and influenced later evolutionary thought.
-
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_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_69a26c1b81a88190ba473b28dd88fdb8 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 4:16 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a26d3eee308190a591a8b71fc3aea9 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 4:21 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a26d9fb7248190b358c6f890eac0e9 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 4:22 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:06 a.m.