Triple
T10894448
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Herbert Blumer |
E257269
|
entity |
| Predicate | influenced |
P9
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Howard S. Becker |
E495540
|
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: Howard S. Becker | Statement: [Herbert Blumer, influenced, Howard S. Becker]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard S. Becker Context triple: [Herbert Blumer, influenced, Howard S. Becker]
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A.
Howard Becker
chosen
Howard Becker was an influential American sociologist best known for his work on deviance, labeling theory, and the sociology of art and music.
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B.
Herbert Blumer
Herbert Blumer was an American sociologist best known for coining the term "symbolic interactionism" and significantly shaping the Chicago School of sociology.
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C.
Harold Garfinkel
Harold Garfinkel was an American sociologist best known as the founder of ethnomethodology, a field that studies the everyday methods people use to make sense of social life.
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D.
Robert K. Merton
Robert K. Merton was a prominent American sociologist known for his theories of social structure and anomie, the concept of self-fulfilling prophecy, and major contributions to the sociology of science.
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E.
Neil J. Smelser
Neil J. Smelser was an influential American sociologist known for his work on social theory, economic sociology, and collective behavior.
- 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_69d6aa8550c8819095508a2ed9acf3db |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d75d0153408190bcba2d9b03d78804 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:02 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e15519e620819090e492861de6a567 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 9:31 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:21 p.m.