Triple

T12639247
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alison Bashford E301848 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000
Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000 is a historical study that examines how concerns about disease, migration, and national security have shaped global health policies and border controls from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century.
E994734 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: Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000 | Statement: [Alison Bashford, notableWork, Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000
Context triple: [Alison Bashford, notableWork, Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Occidentosis: A Plague from the West
    Occidentosis: A Plague from the West is a seminal 1962 Iranian philosophical and political essay that critiques Western cultural and economic domination and its corrosive effects on non-Western societies, especially Iran.
  • 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. 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.
  • 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: Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000
Triple: [Alison Bashford, notableWork, Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000]
Generated description
Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000 is a historical study that examines how concerns about disease, migration, and national security have shaped global health policies and border controls from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000
Target entity description: Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization and Security, 1850–2000 is a historical study that examines how concerns about disease, migration, and national security have shaped global health policies and border controls from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Occidentosis: A Plague from the West
    Occidentosis: A Plague from the West is a seminal 1962 Iranian philosophical and political essay that critiques Western cultural and economic domination and its corrosive effects on non-Western societies, especially Iran.
  • 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. 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.
  • 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.