Triple
T12920502
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | neo-Malthusian |
E309105
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasOriginIn |
P3654
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Malthusian theory |
E764521
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Malthusian theory | Statement: [neo-Malthusian, hasOriginIn, Malthusian theory]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Malthusian theory Context triple: [neo-Malthusian, hasOriginIn, Malthusian theory]
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A.
Malthusianism
chosen
Malthusianism is a demographic and economic theory asserting that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine, disease, and conflict unless restrained.
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B.
Malthusian catastrophe
A Malthusian catastrophe is a theoretical scenario in which unchecked population growth outstrips food production, leading to widespread famine, disease, and social collapse.
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C.
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus
The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus is a historical study that reinterprets Malthus’s ideas on population and resources within a global, imperial, and environmental context.
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D.
An Essay on the Principle of Population
An Essay on the Principle of Population is an influential 1798 work of political economy and demography arguing that population growth tends to outpace food production, leading to inevitable checks such as famine, disease, and war.
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E.
Illustrations and Proofs of the Principle of Population
Illustrations and Proofs of the Principle of Population is a 19th-century work by Francis Place that defends and elaborates Thomas Malthus’s population theory with empirical evidence and argument.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d7bdf92b588190acdf2a2291ac4590 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d971e7f6e881908c7bb12283898c80 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 9:55 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f6af5ffcc48190bf93ce32e4aecfcd |
completed | May 3, 2026, 2:13 a.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:41 p.m.