Triple

T81013
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Malthus E1626 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object An Essay on the Principle of Population
An Essay on the Principle of Population is an influential 1798 work of political economy and demography arguing that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine, disease, and war.
E7128 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: An Essay on the Principle of Population | Statement: [Thomas Malthus, notableWork, An Essay on the Principle of Population]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: An Essay on the Principle of Population
Context triple: [Thomas Malthus, notableWork, An Essay on the Principle of Population]
  • A. The Wealth of Nations
    The Wealth of Nations is Adam Smith’s foundational 1776 treatise on economics that laid the groundwork for classical free-market theory and modern economic thought.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. The Condition of the Working Class in England
    The Condition of the Working Class in England is an 1845 socio-economic study by Friedrich Engels that exposes the harsh living and labor conditions of the industrial proletariat in 19th-century England.
  • E. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
    The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is Charles Darwin’s 1871 book that applies evolutionary theory to human origins and develops his influential theory of sexual selection.
  • 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: An Essay on the Principle of Population
Triple: [Thomas Malthus, notableWork, An Essay on the Principle of Population]
Generated description
An Essay on the Principle of Population is an influential 1798 work of political economy and demography arguing that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine, disease, and war.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: An Essay on the Principle of Population
Target entity description: An Essay on the Principle of Population is an influential 1798 work of political economy and demography arguing that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine, disease, and war.
  • A. The Wealth of Nations
    The Wealth of Nations is Adam Smith’s foundational 1776 treatise on economics that laid the groundwork for classical free-market theory and modern economic thought.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. The Condition of the Working Class in England
    The Condition of the Working Class in England is an 1845 socio-economic study by Friedrich Engels that exposes the harsh living and labor conditions of the industrial proletariat in 19th-century England.
  • E. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
    The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is Charles Darwin’s 1871 book that applies evolutionary theory to human origins and develops his influential theory of sexual selection.
  • 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_69a25abdf36c819087c4be57bd8ce8c5 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a25c02d05c819096ee8add17b60d87 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a25c8a34e88190bb6b2eae14f773a7 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:10 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:06 a.m.