Triple
T12639246
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Alison Bashford |
E301848
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Quarantine: Local and Global Histories
"Quarantine: Local and Global Histories" is a historical study by Alison Bashford that examines how quarantine practices have shaped public health, borders, and global mobility from the early modern period to the twentieth century.
|
E994733
|
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: Quarantine: Local and Global Histories | Statement: [Alison Bashford, notableWork, Quarantine: Local and Global Histories]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Quarantine: Local and Global Histories Context triple: [Alison Bashford, notableWork, Quarantine: Local and Global Histories]
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A.
Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know
Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible, expert-driven overview of how pandemics emerge, spread, and can be controlled, written for a general audience by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist Peter C. Doherty.
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B.
Infections and Inequalities
"Infections and Inequalities" is a seminal book by physician-anthropologist Paul Farmer that examines how poverty, social injustice, and global power imbalances shape the distribution and treatment of infectious diseases.
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C.
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox is a nonfiction book recounting the global campaign to eliminate smallpox, written from the perspective of one of the key public health leaders who helped achieve its eradication.
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D.
The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease
The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease is a detailed case study examining the U.S. government's 1976 swine flu vaccination program and the complexities of public health decision-making under uncertainty.
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E.
The Great Influenza
The Great Influenza is John M. Barry’s historical account of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, examining its scientific, medical, and social impact on the modern world.
- 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: Quarantine: Local and Global Histories Triple: [Alison Bashford, notableWork, Quarantine: Local and Global Histories]
Generated description
"Quarantine: Local and Global Histories" is a historical study by Alison Bashford that examines how quarantine practices have shaped public health, borders, and global mobility from the early modern period to the twentieth century.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Quarantine: Local and Global Histories Target entity description: "Quarantine: Local and Global Histories" is a historical study by Alison Bashford that examines how quarantine practices have shaped public health, borders, and global mobility from the early modern period to the twentieth century.
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A.
Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know
Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know is an accessible, expert-driven overview of how pandemics emerge, spread, and can be controlled, written for a general audience by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist Peter C. Doherty.
-
B.
Infections and Inequalities
"Infections and Inequalities" is a seminal book by physician-anthropologist Paul Farmer that examines how poverty, social injustice, and global power imbalances shape the distribution and treatment of infectious diseases.
-
C.
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox is a nonfiction book recounting the global campaign to eliminate smallpox, written from the perspective of one of the key public health leaders who helped achieve its eradication.
-
D.
The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease
The Swine Flu Affair: Decision-Making on a Slippery Disease is a detailed case study examining the U.S. government's 1976 swine flu vaccination program and the complexities of public health decision-making under uncertainty.
-
E.
The Great Influenza
The Great Influenza is John M. Barry’s historical account of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, examining its scientific, medical, and social impact on the modern world.
- 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_69d7bdec9f9c8190b4bac675b7588211 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d961499de08190bdba66ca40b021be |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:44 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f668754acc8190b5585dbd35387867 |
completed | May 2, 2026, 9:11 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69f6697d8ac88190b4ead9ce47f3a705 |
completed | May 2, 2026, 9:15 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69f66a2da60881909b0a689821456bb4 |
completed | May 2, 2026, 9:18 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:16 p.m.