Triple

T11935759
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject TVA: Democracy on the March E284038 entity
Predicate describes P264 FINISHED
Object Tennessee Valley Authority as an experiment in democratic governance
"Tennessee Valley Authority as an experiment in democratic governance" is a conceptual framing of the TVA as a pioneering New Deal initiative that tested how publicly owned regional planning and development could be directed through democratic processes and citizen participation.
E954871 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: Tennessee Valley Authority as an experiment in democratic governance | Statement: [TVA: Democracy on the March, describes, Tennessee Valley Authority as an experiment in democratic governance]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tennessee Valley Authority as an experiment in democratic governance
Context triple: [TVA: Democracy on the March, describes, Tennessee Valley Authority as an experiment in democratic governance]
  • A. Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City
    "Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City" is a landmark political science study that analyzes the distribution of power and democratic decision-making in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • B. The Mechanisms of Governance
    The Mechanisms of Governance is a seminal book by economist Oliver E. Williamson that develops and applies transaction cost economics to explain how different organizational and contractual arrangements structure economic activity.
  • C. Coping: Essays on the Practice of Government
    Coping: Essays on the Practice of Government is a collection of essays by Daniel Patrick Moynihan analyzing the challenges, limitations, and practical realities of modern democratic governance and public policy.
  • D. Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government
    Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government is a political science book by Adam Przeworski that critically examines how democratic institutions function in practice and the constraints they face in realizing genuine popular self-rule.
  • E. Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
    The Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis is an interdisciplinary research center at Indiana University focused on the study of governance, institutions, and collective action, especially in relation to common-pool resources and public policy.
  • 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: Tennessee Valley Authority as an experiment in democratic governance
Triple: [TVA: Democracy on the March, describes, Tennessee Valley Authority as an experiment in democratic governance]
Generated description
"Tennessee Valley Authority as an experiment in democratic governance" is a conceptual framing of the TVA as a pioneering New Deal initiative that tested how publicly owned regional planning and development could be directed through democratic processes and citizen participation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tennessee Valley Authority as an experiment in democratic governance
Target entity description: "Tennessee Valley Authority as an experiment in democratic governance" is a conceptual framing of the TVA as a pioneering New Deal initiative that tested how publicly owned regional planning and development could be directed through democratic processes and citizen participation.
  • A. Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City
    "Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City" is a landmark political science study that analyzes the distribution of power and democratic decision-making in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • B. The Mechanisms of Governance
    The Mechanisms of Governance is a seminal book by economist Oliver E. Williamson that develops and applies transaction cost economics to explain how different organizational and contractual arrangements structure economic activity.
  • C. Coping: Essays on the Practice of Government
    Coping: Essays on the Practice of Government is a collection of essays by Daniel Patrick Moynihan analyzing the challenges, limitations, and practical realities of modern democratic governance and public policy.
  • D. Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government
    Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government is a political science book by Adam Przeworski that critically examines how democratic institutions function in practice and the constraints they face in realizing genuine popular self-rule.
  • E. Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis
    The Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis is an interdisciplinary research center at Indiana University focused on the study of governance, institutions, and collective action, especially in relation to common-pool resources and public policy.
  • 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_69d6ab2ce9c48190b5d39511b524f666 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d90306fcf48190a963d2d1932288d1 completed April 10, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f4408d497c8190b051225140125e1f completed May 1, 2026, 5:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f448fc874081908fe05f9d8aff11a3 completed May 1, 2026, 6:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f44afdc7b08190bdf47cfcb94c34c8 completed May 1, 2026, 6:41 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:45 p.m.