Triple

T10223585
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hugh Trevor-Roper E242642 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The European Witch-Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries
The European Witch-Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries is a historical study by Hugh Trevor-Roper that analyzes the social, religious, and political factors behind the major witch hunts in early modern Europe.
E850525 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 European Witch-Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries | Statement: [Hugh Trevor-Roper, notableWork, The European Witch-Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The European Witch-Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries
Context triple: [Hugh Trevor-Roper, notableWork, The European Witch-Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries]
  • A. European witch hunts
    European witch hunts were a series of widespread persecutions, trials, and executions of people accused of witchcraft across Europe from roughly the 15th to 18th centuries, driven by religious, social, and political tensions.
  • B. Witchcraft Today
    Witchcraft Today is a 1954 book by Gerald Gardner that popularized modern Wicca by presenting it as a surviving pre-Christian pagan religion.
  • C. Fulda witch trials
    The Fulda witch trials were a series of severe early 17th-century witch persecutions in the Prince-Bishopric of Fulda, Germany, that resulted in numerous executions and are remembered as one of the major witch hunts of the period.
  • D. Pendle witch trials
    The Pendle witch trials were a series of notorious early 17th-century English witchcraft prosecutions in Lancashire that led to multiple executions and became some of the most famous witch trials in British history.
  • E. The Meaning of Witchcraft
    The Meaning of Witchcraft is a seminal 1959 book by Gerald Gardner that outlines the beliefs, practices, and history of modern Wicca and helped popularize contemporary witchcraft.
  • 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 European Witch-Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries
Triple: [Hugh Trevor-Roper, notableWork, The European Witch-Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries]
Generated description
The European Witch-Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries is a historical study by Hugh Trevor-Roper that analyzes the social, religious, and political factors behind the major witch hunts in early modern Europe.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The European Witch-Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries
Target entity description: The European Witch-Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries is a historical study by Hugh Trevor-Roper that analyzes the social, religious, and political factors behind the major witch hunts in early modern Europe.
  • A. European witch hunts
    European witch hunts were a series of widespread persecutions, trials, and executions of people accused of witchcraft across Europe from roughly the 15th to 18th centuries, driven by religious, social, and political tensions.
  • B. Witchcraft Today
    Witchcraft Today is a 1954 book by Gerald Gardner that popularized modern Wicca by presenting it as a surviving pre-Christian pagan religion.
  • C. Fulda witch trials
    The Fulda witch trials were a series of severe early 17th-century witch persecutions in the Prince-Bishopric of Fulda, Germany, that resulted in numerous executions and are remembered as one of the major witch hunts of the period.
  • D. Pendle witch trials
    The Pendle witch trials were a series of notorious early 17th-century English witchcraft prosecutions in Lancashire that led to multiple executions and became some of the most famous witch trials in British history.
  • E. The Meaning of Witchcraft
    The Meaning of Witchcraft is a seminal 1959 book by Gerald Gardner that outlines the beliefs, practices, and history of modern Wicca and helped popularize contemporary witchcraft.
  • 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_69d381ae26c48190985abd0e25ee5d04 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d3aa84a9ac819093d551005a1c8f3d completed April 6, 2026, 12:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d6a8457e9c819085f222bb002be892 completed April 8, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d6d00220ec81909d189e64eda2a28f completed April 8, 2026, 10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d6df44ad5481909100b596d2bf3b07 completed April 8, 2026, 11:05 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 11:10 a.m.