Triple
T1348206
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak |
E28818
|
entity |
| Predicate | doctoralThesis |
P6
|
FINISHED |
| Object | A Critique of the Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present |
E154867
|
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: A Critique of the Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present | Statement: [Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, doctoralThesis, A Critique of the Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Critique of the Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present Context triple: [Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, doctoralThesis, A Critique of the Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present]
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A.
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
chosen
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason is a seminal theoretical work by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak that interrogates how Western philosophy, literature, and colonial discourse construct and silence the subaltern.
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B.
In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics
In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics is a seminal collection of essays by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak that helped shape postcolonial theory, feminist criticism, and deconstructive literary studies.
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C.
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is a seminal work of social and political theory by Jürgen Habermas that analyzes the historical rise and decline of the bourgeois public sphere and its implications for modern democracy and communication.
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D.
Orientalism
Orientalism is a critical concept and scholarly work, notably articulated by Edward Said, that examines how Western representations of Eastern cultures have historically constructed and dominated the “Orient” through stereotyped and exoticized depictions.
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E.
The Politics of History
The Politics of History is a critical work of historiography by Howard Zinn that challenges traditional narratives and argues for a politically engaged, socially conscious approach to writing and teaching history.
- 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_69a498571d248190a0ac9eb02d97097f |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4c2418e38819094683d6e1efc6e56 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:48 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69acce6a1dd48190b17ac5a7cf3ab933 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 1:18 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:56 p.m.