Triple

T8102091
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Niko Tinbergen E189137 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Study of Instinct
The Study of Instinct is a landmark 1951 book by ethologist Niko Tinbergen that systematically analyzes animal instinctive behavior and helped establish the foundations of modern ethology.
E711533 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: The Study of Instinct | Statement: [Niko Tinbergen, notableWork, The Study of Instinct]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Study of Instinct
Context triple: [Niko Tinbergen, notableWork, The Study of Instinct]
  • A. Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology
    Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology is a foundational psychological work by Wilhelm Wundt that explores the comparative study of mental processes in humans and animals.
  • B. Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals
    "Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals" is Edward L. Thorndike’s landmark early work in comparative psychology that introduced experimental methods to study learning and problem-solving in animals.
  • C. The Principles of Psychology
    The Principles of Psychology is an influential 1890 book by William James that helped establish psychology as a scientific discipline and introduced key ideas such as the stream of consciousness and functionalism.
  • D. The Principles of Psychology
    The Principles of Psychology is an influential 19th-century work by Herbert Spencer that applies evolutionary theory to explain mental processes and the development of the mind.
  • E. Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life
    Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life is an influential late-18th-century medical and biological treatise by Erasmus Darwin that proposed early ideas about evolution, physiology, and the organization of living beings.
  • 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: The Study of Instinct
Triple: [Niko Tinbergen, notableWork, The Study of Instinct]
Generated description
The Study of Instinct is a landmark 1951 book by ethologist Niko Tinbergen that systematically analyzes animal instinctive behavior and helped establish the foundations of modern ethology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Study of Instinct
Target entity description: The Study of Instinct is a landmark 1951 book by ethologist Niko Tinbergen that systematically analyzes animal instinctive behavior and helped establish the foundations of modern ethology.
  • A. Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology
    Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology is a foundational psychological work by Wilhelm Wundt that explores the comparative study of mental processes in humans and animals.
  • B. Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals
    "Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals" is Edward L. Thorndike’s landmark early work in comparative psychology that introduced experimental methods to study learning and problem-solving in animals.
  • C. The Principles of Psychology
    The Principles of Psychology is an influential 1890 book by William James that helped establish psychology as a scientific discipline and introduced key ideas such as the stream of consciousness and functionalism.
  • D. The Principles of Psychology
    The Principles of Psychology is an influential 19th-century work by Herbert Spencer that applies evolutionary theory to explain mental processes and the development of the mind.
  • E. Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life
    Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life is an influential late-18th-century medical and biological treatise by Erasmus Darwin that proposed early ideas about evolution, physiology, and the organization of living beings.
  • 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_69ca82b886d88190a9cba0d5a4a27521 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb42bd91408190880293dfdce8bef7 completed March 31, 2026, 3:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc642095a08190bcf90e6470e127cc completed April 1, 2026, 12:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc68d9032c8190af6c5ff64fe46aff completed April 1, 2026, 12:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc69f6bb308190a95df95d1a67cfec completed April 1, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:31 p.m.