Triple

T13641857
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants E325996 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object The Secret Life of Plants (book)
The Secret Life of Plants is a controversial 1973 book by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird that explores the idea of plant sentience and communication, blending scientific studies with speculative and paranormal claims.
E1054825 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: The Secret Life of Plants (book) | Statement: [Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants, basedOn, The Secret Life of Plants (book)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Secret Life of Plants (book)
Context triple: [Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants, basedOn, The Secret Life of Plants (book)]
  • A. Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants
    Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants is a 1979 experimental concept album by Stevie Wonder, serving as the mostly instrumental soundtrack to the documentary film "The Secret Life of Plants."
  • B. The Private Life of Plants
    The Private Life of Plants is a landmark BBC nature documentary series, presented by David Attenborough, that reveals the hidden, time-lapse world of plant life and their complex behaviors.
  • C. "What a Plant Knows"
    "What a Plant Knows" is a popular science book by Daniel Chamovitz that explores how plants perceive and respond to their environments through senses analogous to sight, smell, touch, and more.
  • D. The Loves of the Plants
    The Loves of the Plants is a didactic poem by Erasmus Darwin that personifies plant reproduction to popularize contemporary botanical science.
  • E. book "What a Plant Knows"
    "What a Plant Knows" is a popular science book that explores how plants perceive and respond to their environment, revealing the surprising sensory world of plant life.
  • 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: The Secret Life of Plants (book)
Triple: [Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants, basedOn, The Secret Life of Plants (book)]
Generated description
The Secret Life of Plants is a controversial 1973 book by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird that explores the idea of plant sentience and communication, blending scientific studies with speculative and paranormal claims.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Secret Life of Plants (book)
Target entity description: The Secret Life of Plants is a controversial 1973 book by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird that explores the idea of plant sentience and communication, blending scientific studies with speculative and paranormal claims.
  • A. Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants
    Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants is a 1979 experimental concept album by Stevie Wonder, serving as the mostly instrumental soundtrack to the documentary film "The Secret Life of Plants."
  • B. The Private Life of Plants
    The Private Life of Plants is a landmark BBC nature documentary series, presented by David Attenborough, that reveals the hidden, time-lapse world of plant life and their complex behaviors.
  • C. "What a Plant Knows"
    "What a Plant Knows" is a popular science book by Daniel Chamovitz that explores how plants perceive and respond to their environments through senses analogous to sight, smell, touch, and more.
  • D. The Loves of the Plants
    The Loves of the Plants is a didactic poem by Erasmus Darwin that personifies plant reproduction to popularize contemporary botanical science.
  • E. book "What a Plant Knows"
    "What a Plant Knows" is a popular science book that explores how plants perceive and respond to their environment, revealing the surprising sensory world of plant life.
  • 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_69d8076beddc8190a53156f5bea77f5e completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbc5aac7308190a3fd26baeade8f2a completed April 12, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7943306f08190b3a4c44e5b22db0a completed May 3, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f796a4eac88190aa68765fd0e6dfe7 completed May 3, 2026, 6:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7976846308190b1a5c056609fca34 completed May 3, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:51 p.m.