Triple

T11063459
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Berger E261563 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing is a highly influential 1972 art criticism book and television series by John Berger that examines how images are perceived and how visual culture reflects and shapes power, gender, and ideology.
E903045 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: Ways of Seeing | Statement: [John Berger, notableWork, Ways of Seeing]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ways of Seeing
Context triple: [John Berger, notableWork, Ways of Seeing]
  • A. The Treachery of Images
    The Treachery of Images is a famous 1929 painting by René Magritte that depicts a realistic pipe alongside the caption “Ceci n’est pas une pipe,” challenging viewers’ assumptions about representation and reality.
  • B. The Isms of Art
    The Isms of Art is a seminal avant-garde art book by El Lissitzky that surveys and visually interprets the major modern art movements of the early 20th century.
  • C. The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
    The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project is a major work of critical theory in which Susan Buck-Morss reconstructs and interprets Walter Benjamin’s unfinished Arcades Project to explore modernity, urban experience, and historical materialism.
  • D. Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing
    Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing is a reflective nonfiction book by Natalie Goldberg that explores the connections between visual art, writing, and perception through memoir, meditation, and creative practice.
  • E. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
    Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste is Pierre Bourdieu’s influential sociological study that analyzes how aesthetic preferences and cultural consumption reinforce social class distinctions.
  • 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: Ways of Seeing
Triple: [John Berger, notableWork, Ways of Seeing]
Generated description
Ways of Seeing is a highly influential 1972 art criticism book and television series by John Berger that examines how images are perceived and how visual culture reflects and shapes power, gender, and ideology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ways of Seeing
Target entity description: Ways of Seeing is a highly influential 1972 art criticism book and television series by John Berger that examines how images are perceived and how visual culture reflects and shapes power, gender, and ideology.
  • A. The Treachery of Images
    The Treachery of Images is a famous 1929 painting by René Magritte that depicts a realistic pipe alongside the caption “Ceci n’est pas une pipe,” challenging viewers’ assumptions about representation and reality.
  • B. The Isms of Art
    The Isms of Art is a seminal avant-garde art book by El Lissitzky that surveys and visually interprets the major modern art movements of the early 20th century.
  • C. The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
    The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project is a major work of critical theory in which Susan Buck-Morss reconstructs and interprets Walter Benjamin’s unfinished Arcades Project to explore modernity, urban experience, and historical materialism.
  • D. Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing
    Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing is a reflective nonfiction book by Natalie Goldberg that explores the connections between visual art, writing, and perception through memoir, meditation, and creative practice.
  • E. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
    Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste is Pierre Bourdieu’s influential sociological study that analyzes how aesthetic preferences and cultural consumption reinforce social class distinctions.
  • 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_69d6aa98650481908609c7c56bfa7902 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d798ed07f88190bf501d9f63386ada completed April 9, 2026, 12:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3c8977f98819082dec025e92782da completed April 18, 2026, 6:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3cadf271081908d2b794a4288892a completed April 18, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3cf1f508c81909b4ca8131b7fc9ee completed April 18, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:26 p.m.