Triple

T11706975
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year E278271 entity
Predicate notableWinner P2766 FINISHED
Object Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is a bestselling popular science book by Yuval Noah Harari that explores the history and impact of Homo sapiens from prehistoric times to the modern era.
E942527 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: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Statement: [British Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year, notableWinner, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Context triple: [British Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year, notableWinner, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind]
  • A. Guns, Germs, and Steel
    Guns, Germs, and Steel is a widely influential book by Jared Diamond that explores how geography, environment, and the distribution of domesticable plants and animals shaped the unequal development of human societies.
  • B. Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution
    "Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution" is a popular science book by physical anthropologist William W. Howells that explains the fossil, genetic, and cultural evidence for the evolutionary origins and development of modern humans.
  • C. The Third Chimpanzee
    The Third Chimpanzee is a popular science book by Jared Diamond that explores human evolution and behavior by comparing Homo sapiens to our closest primate relatives.
  • D. Enlightenment Now
    Enlightenment Now is a non-fiction book by cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker that argues, using extensive data, that human life has been steadily improving thanks to Enlightenment values such as reason, science, and humanism.
  • E. Fuzzy Sapiens
    Fuzzy Sapiens is a science fiction novel by Henry Beam Piper that continues the story of the small, intelligent alien "Fuzzies" and their struggle for recognition as sentient beings.
  • 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: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Triple: [British Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year, notableWinner, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind]
Generated description
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is a bestselling popular science book by Yuval Noah Harari that explores the history and impact of Homo sapiens from prehistoric times to the modern era.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Target entity description: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is a bestselling popular science book by Yuval Noah Harari that explores the history and impact of Homo sapiens from prehistoric times to the modern era.
  • A. Guns, Germs, and Steel
    Guns, Germs, and Steel is a widely influential book by Jared Diamond that explores how geography, environment, and the distribution of domesticable plants and animals shaped the unequal development of human societies.
  • B. Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution
    "Getting Here: The Story of Human Evolution" is a popular science book by physical anthropologist William W. Howells that explains the fossil, genetic, and cultural evidence for the evolutionary origins and development of modern humans.
  • C. The Third Chimpanzee
    The Third Chimpanzee is a popular science book by Jared Diamond that explores human evolution and behavior by comparing Homo sapiens to our closest primate relatives.
  • D. Enlightenment Now
    Enlightenment Now is a non-fiction book by cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker that argues, using extensive data, that human life has been steadily improving thanks to Enlightenment values such as reason, science, and humanism.
  • E. Fuzzy Sapiens
    Fuzzy Sapiens is a science fiction novel by Henry Beam Piper that continues the story of the small, intelligent alien "Fuzzies" and their struggle for recognition as sentient beings.
  • 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_69d6aaff2ce88190b4a1e4b341ad5377 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a49de0388190a063739426bf90e8 completed April 10, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ef836388bc8190827ce4af609d8b61 completed April 27, 2026, 3:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ef96b0169081909ad5c5d40a006e64 completed April 27, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69efb4dad6a481909a54511b6233993b completed April 27, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:40 p.m.