Triple

T12470505
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Snow E298042 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object On the Mode of Communication of Cholera
On the Mode of Communication of Cholera is John Snow’s landmark 19th-century medical treatise that provided crucial evidence for the waterborne transmission of cholera and helped lay the foundations of modern epidemiology.
E983402 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: On the Mode of Communication of Cholera | Statement: [John Snow, notableWork, On the Mode of Communication of Cholera]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On the Mode of Communication of Cholera
Context triple: [John Snow, notableWork, On the Mode of Communication of Cholera]
  • A. Microscopical observations and pathological deductions on cholera
    "Microscopical observations and pathological deductions on cholera" is an 1854 scientific paper by Filippo Pacini in which he first described the cholera bacterium and linked it to the disease.
  • B. A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion
    A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion is an influential early 18th-century medical treatise by physician Richard Mead that analyzes the nature, causes, and prevention of plague and other contagious diseases.
  • C. Traité des fièvres palustres
    Traité des fièvres palustres is a seminal medical treatise on malarial fevers by French physician Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, reflecting his pioneering work on the parasitic cause of malaria.
  • D. Essays on the Public Merits of Vaccine Inoculation
    Essays on the Public Merits of Vaccine Inoculation is a medical and public health treatise by Thomas Beddoes advocating for and analyzing the benefits of smallpox vaccination.
  • E. Koch's postulates
    Koch's postulates are a set of criteria formulated in the late 19th century to establish a causal relationship between a specific microorganism and a particular disease.
  • 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: On the Mode of Communication of Cholera
Triple: [John Snow, notableWork, On the Mode of Communication of Cholera]
Generated description
On the Mode of Communication of Cholera is John Snow’s landmark 19th-century medical treatise that provided crucial evidence for the waterborne transmission of cholera and helped lay the foundations of modern epidemiology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: On the Mode of Communication of Cholera
Target entity description: On the Mode of Communication of Cholera is John Snow’s landmark 19th-century medical treatise that provided crucial evidence for the waterborne transmission of cholera and helped lay the foundations of modern epidemiology.
  • A. Microscopical observations and pathological deductions on cholera
    "Microscopical observations and pathological deductions on cholera" is an 1854 scientific paper by Filippo Pacini in which he first described the cholera bacterium and linked it to the disease.
  • B. A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion
    A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion is an influential early 18th-century medical treatise by physician Richard Mead that analyzes the nature, causes, and prevention of plague and other contagious diseases.
  • C. Traité des fièvres palustres
    Traité des fièvres palustres is a seminal medical treatise on malarial fevers by French physician Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, reflecting his pioneering work on the parasitic cause of malaria.
  • D. Essays on the Public Merits of Vaccine Inoculation
    Essays on the Public Merits of Vaccine Inoculation is a medical and public health treatise by Thomas Beddoes advocating for and analyzing the benefits of smallpox vaccination.
  • E. Koch's postulates
    Koch's postulates are a set of criteria formulated in the late 19th century to establish a causal relationship between a specific microorganism and a particular disease.
  • 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_69d6ada270808190b1a2b2e7b02bb426 completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94dba7f6c8190b272f649e0777362 completed April 10, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f63f2175c48190bbd28ad8c07434f0 completed May 2, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6401199408190ad2657802afd93c9 completed May 2, 2026, 6:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6416ba1bc8190a772bffe4d83ec15 completed May 2, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:56 p.m.