Triple

T11645956
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gabriel Tarde E276776 entity
Predicate hasConcept P531 FINISHED
Object laws of imitation
The laws of imitation are Gabriel Tarde’s foundational sociological principles explaining how social behavior, ideas, and innovations spread through patterned imitation among individuals.
E938800 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: laws of imitation | Statement: [Gabriel Tarde, hasConcept, laws of imitation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: laws of imitation
Context triple: [Gabriel Tarde, hasConcept, laws of imitation]
  • A. On Imitation
    "On Imitation" is a lost rhetorical treatise by the ancient Greek critic Dionysius of Halicarnassus that discussed literary style and the principles of imitating classical authors.
  • B. Law of the Maximum
    The Law of the Maximum was a French Revolutionary price-control measure that fixed maximum prices on essential goods to curb inflation and protect the urban poor.
  • C. Lusser's law
    Lusser's law is a reliability engineering principle that states the overall reliability of a system is the product of the reliabilities of its individual components, highlighting how system reliability decreases as more components are added in series.
  • D. Aitken’s Law
    Aitken’s Law is a phonological rule in Scots and Scottish English that governs when vowels are pronounced long or short depending on their phonetic and morphological environment.
  • E. Szemerényi's law
    Szemerényi's law is a sound law in Proto-Indo-European linguistics that explains the loss of certain final consonants with compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel.
  • 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: laws of imitation
Triple: [Gabriel Tarde, hasConcept, laws of imitation]
Generated description
The laws of imitation are Gabriel Tarde’s foundational sociological principles explaining how social behavior, ideas, and innovations spread through patterned imitation among individuals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: laws of imitation
Target entity description: The laws of imitation are Gabriel Tarde’s foundational sociological principles explaining how social behavior, ideas, and innovations spread through patterned imitation among individuals.
  • A. On Imitation
    "On Imitation" is a lost rhetorical treatise by the ancient Greek critic Dionysius of Halicarnassus that discussed literary style and the principles of imitating classical authors.
  • B. Law of the Maximum
    The Law of the Maximum was a French Revolutionary price-control measure that fixed maximum prices on essential goods to curb inflation and protect the urban poor.
  • C. Lusser's law
    Lusser's law is a reliability engineering principle that states the overall reliability of a system is the product of the reliabilities of its individual components, highlighting how system reliability decreases as more components are added in series.
  • D. Aitken’s Law
    Aitken’s Law is a phonological rule in Scots and Scottish English that governs when vowels are pronounced long or short depending on their phonetic and morphological environment.
  • E. Szemerényi's law
    Szemerényi's law is a sound law in Proto-Indo-European linguistics that explains the loss of certain final consonants with compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel.
  • 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_69d6aafbb3c081908a9cdb4ecb8d981d completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a2cc8bfc8190a063cc37de9596a9 completed April 10, 2026, 7:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ee87f903c48190b9055ad4cfebb1e1 completed April 26, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69eeb314eef0819091a949bbfc820ee9 completed April 27, 2026, 12:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69eee9a79d348190bb3e15f0d37b9d57 completed April 27, 2026, 4:44 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:39 p.m.