Triple

T1186286
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alfred W. Crosby E25254 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Ends of the Earth
The Ends of the Earth is a historical work by Alfred W. Crosby that examines how human societies have expanded, migrated, and transformed environments across the globe over time.
E139066 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 Ends of the Earth | Statement: [Alfred W. Crosby, notableWork, The Ends of the Earth]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Ends of the Earth
Context triple: [Alfred W. Crosby, notableWork, The Ends of the Earth]
  • A. To the Ends of the Earth
    "To the Ends of the Earth" is an episode of the BBC nature documentary series Frozen Planet that explores the extreme environments and wildlife found at the polar regions of the Earth.
  • B. World's End
    World's End is a riverside district in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, known for its large 1970s housing estate and proximity to the western end of the King's Road.
  • C. A World Between
    A World Between is a science fiction novel by Norman Spinrad that explores political manipulation and media control on a distant, idealistic colony world.
  • D. Caput Mundi
    Caput Mundi is a Latin epithet meaning "capital of the world," historically used to emphasize Rome’s central importance in politics, culture, and civilization.
  • E. The Lost Paradise
    The Lost Paradise is a late 19th-century American stage play by Henry Churchill DeMille, known for its melodramatic treatment of class conflict and industrial capitalism.
  • 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 Ends of the Earth
Triple: [Alfred W. Crosby, notableWork, The Ends of the Earth]
Generated description
The Ends of the Earth is a historical work by Alfred W. Crosby that examines how human societies have expanded, migrated, and transformed environments across the globe over time.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Ends of the Earth
Target entity description: The Ends of the Earth is a historical work by Alfred W. Crosby that examines how human societies have expanded, migrated, and transformed environments across the globe over time.
  • A. To the Ends of the Earth
    "To the Ends of the Earth" is an episode of the BBC nature documentary series Frozen Planet that explores the extreme environments and wildlife found at the polar regions of the Earth.
  • B. World's End
    World's End is a riverside district in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, known for its large 1970s housing estate and proximity to the western end of the King's Road.
  • C. A World Between
    A World Between is a science fiction novel by Norman Spinrad that explores political manipulation and media control on a distant, idealistic colony world.
  • D. Caput Mundi
    Caput Mundi is a Latin epithet meaning "capital of the world," historically used to emphasize Rome’s central importance in politics, culture, and civilization.
  • E. The Lost Paradise
    The Lost Paradise is a late 19th-century American stage play by Henry Churchill DeMille, known for its melodramatic treatment of class conflict and industrial capitalism.
  • 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_69a49427d98881908646d6c63b8cea1e completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bd53e4b48190abb2167f8074a6bc completed March 1, 2026, 10:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac83146f2881909e230bc9de28a76b completed March 7, 2026, 7:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac837e06cc8190b0da34646fa78c0c completed March 7, 2026, 7:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac84309acc8190aac6c3c78246b352 completed March 7, 2026, 8:01 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.