Triple
T884
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | As We May Think |
E17
|
entity |
| Predicate | influenced |
P9
|
FINISHED |
| Object | J. C. R. Licklider |
E52
|
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: J. C. R. Licklider | Statement: [As We May Think, influenced, J. C. R. Licklider]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. C. R. Licklider Context triple: [As We May Think, influenced, J. C. R. Licklider]
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A.
J. C. R. Licklider
chosen
J. C. R. Licklider was an American psychologist and computer scientist whose visionary ideas about interactive computing and a globally networked system helped lay the conceptual foundations for the internet and modern human-computer interaction.
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B.
Vannevar Bush
American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890~1974)
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C.
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering the computer mouse and groundbreaking concepts in interactive computing and hypertext that helped shape modern personal computing.
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D.
Ted Nelson
Ted Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning non-linear, interconnected digital documents.
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E.
Charles M. Vest
Charles M. Vest was an American engineer and educator who served as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was widely recognized for his leadership in science and engineering policy.
- 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_69a22a285828819081a58308fb963df1 |
completed | Feb. 27, 2026, 11:35 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a230c560548190a57df2421e233775 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 12:03 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a266df7d148190beac1290a858f14c |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 3:54 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 27, 2026, 11:36 p.m.